Travel Blog » Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

Berlin Travel Blogs

Background: As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.

Germany

Map of Germany

Germany's Flag

Recommended Books:

Hostels in Germany
Latest Berlin Blog Entries
Berlin Photos

By Boof
August 2nd 2008

Berlin

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

Hey all, hope all is going well back home with everybody! Ok, so far we are in Munich BUT, before that we were in Berlin. First place we stayed at was a youth hostel, which Pudd you did warn us against staying one of them but it was all we could get at the time. There was apsolutely nothing to do in the hostel and nothing in the local area so we took it as a time out destination to let our bodies have a bit of a rest from all the awsomeness that has been our trip. After there we [View Full Entry]

By tabobfather
August 2nd 2008

Journey to the Center of Berlin

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

Siegessaule
Place where Obama gave his speech to Berlin

Today Joscha, Janni and I made our way to the center of Berlin to see some sights. This is the first day I was able to take some pictures in Germany despite my Camera's LCD screen being totally cracked. On the bus, we passed a church that was bombed out by the allies during World War Two. The church is totally bombed out on the inside but some of the outside structure still remains. This is why many Berliners call this church the Hollowtooth. Adjourning the church a memorial was built to honor the dead of WW2. The first thing we [View Full Entry]

Hollowtooth Church and Memorial Next to it

By starcar44
August 1st 2008

In Berlin!

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

The Brandenburg Gate
One of the most iconic monuments in Germany. During the Cold War, it served as part of the boundary between East and West Berlin. Also, Napoleon really liked the Quadriga on top, so he lopped it off a... [more]

Hey all! This will be a short post, as the keyboard here is really annoying and I don't have much patience for it right now. Just a quick update: Laura and I got to Berlin 2 nights ago and this is our last night. Tomorrow we head to Prague. We did a walking tour of the city yesterday and it was excellent. We saw all the major sights: the Wall, the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstagg, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Checkpoint Charlie, the Bebelplatz (where the Nazi book-burnings took place), Museumsinsel (''Museum Island'', where 4 major museums are), [View Full Entry]

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

By tabobfather
August 1st 2008

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

Thank you JFK for uttering these famous words, and giving me a catchy intro for my blogging time in the city of Berlin. I arrived in Berlin around 6:00. Getting off at the first train station that said Berlin, it occurred as I stepped away from the closing train doors that there was no Joscha Podlesney. Without a wifi connection to save my life and feeling the lingering affects of my illnesses I wandered around the Sudkreuz attempting to find my German friend. When it became apparent I was at the wrong train station I went straight for the phones. I [View Full Entry]

By EmmaandMark
July 31st 2008

For Hannah / Jane

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

Yo! We saw a camel! Going back tonight to camelnap it! Mom - should Villa sign someone please post it on here (particularly right backs) as we are entering a news black hole We'll put up a proper blog from either Krakow (detouring again) or wherever we find ourselves after that Em and Mark xx (and the camel) [View Full Entry]

By passenger
July 31st 2008

Berlin

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

Brandenburger tor

Had the time of my life during my stay in Berlin. And also my first food poisoning, which I endured by sleeping around 32 hours or more. The first day I went directly to Berlin was the day when Barack Obama was supposed to hold his speech at the Siegessäule, so with a few friends I got lost under other thousands of people and witnessed his speech, which I found rather unimaginative and less charismatic compared to the ones I saw on the internet. However the following days I was lead around in Berlin by a friend, who was very athletic [View Full Entry]

By EmmaandMark
July 30th 2008

The eagle has landed

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

Morning all, this is an unusually self-promoting thing for me to do; blogs I always thought are for people in need of an ego boost or for compulsive liars because they usually have nothing to talk about. However here I find myself sitting in the creativly titled 'Hotel Berlin' divulging the details of my life to all and sundree. Well I suppose I better be entertaining. The flight was like Clinton Morrison in his blues heyday; just late so we missed our chance to catch Berlin pre-11pm but hey I've been pretty impressed at how big the place is and also [View Full Entry]

By EmmaandMark
July 30th 2008

Flexibility in action

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

The Great Escape *cue music* Hey guys! It's Emma. I've taken back the controls. When your travelling its important to remain flexible - we planned 1 day in Berlin before heading to Vienna. Well Berlin was too much fun to leave tonight so we booked a hostel (10 quid for us both) for tonight, then we discovered that the train price had gone up to over 200 euros each!! - so we're going to Poland. Mark is very chuffed with himself as not only as he found the tickets to the unpronounceable Szczecin (Sch-eh-zin maybe?) for a bargain €49 for us [View Full Entry]

By Vincent Paulin
July 30th 2008

8- [photos]

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

Tous à l'ombre !
Berlin

Quelques photos ... [View Full Entry]

Il faut bien ça pour faire manoeuvrer les chars

By Em83
July 29th 2008

Berlin!

Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

so we arrived in steamy berlin last friday. we arrived and then went and got a kabab lunch and then i came back to the hostel and collapsed for two hours as i was sick with a cough. i met tat in a nearby park and we sat and read and then headed towards the birkenstock store which did not have my size!! we made dinner and then we met this guy called tim. i went with tim and tat for a drink and then came back home because i was still feeing pretty bad. tat came back pretty late but [View Full Entry]

Travel Blog » Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin