Blogs from Berlin, Germany, Europe - page 164

We stayed at an east Berlin dormitory.... read more

Needless to say. Berlin is a great place for shopping. Few people, however, realize that Berlin is also home of the "one euro kebab". Those who are looking for an even chaper snack, might go for the traditional German sausage, the "Bockwurst" for unbelievably 60 cents.... read more

Sorry everyone, this is gonna be a very long one, so if you don't want to read all of it I'll sum it up.... It was a great conference and I had a blast in Berlin! =) Now for the rest of you, here are the details... enjoy =).... Part 2... (part 3 will be coming) links you might like Map of the U and S-bahn stations Pictures of Berlin - I highly recommend checking this one out. The pictures are really neat. There's also more information about the different places than I could give. My favorite of all of them was the Panoramic selection. Would really look at those. It's a fun site. Official Berlin Website(in english) Americans for Informed Democracy/url... read more

Erin here! Firstly, can I just say that the German keyboards are very similar to ours except that the y and the z are switched. I am trying to retrain my brain to think z when I want to hit y but only limited success. So please forgive me if a couple slip through. Well, Germany has been a great laugh up until now! We arrived in Neustadt (literal translation "New Town" although the people who named it weren´t blessed with foresight when thez named it about 500 years ago!) where Dan´s auntie, uncle and cousins live and had a great time there. His cousins are 12, 9 and like 7 or something and their English skills descend accordingly in age order. They were really great kids though and Uncle Peter is a great cook. Neustadt, ... read more

Guten Tag! Last weekend, Clare, Jon and I headed for what was once the most divided city in Europe. I’ve had reports from friends that Berlin is “so amazing”, “fantastic”; however, I really had no strong inclination to go. But when an invitation to explore it for the weekend was offered - I jumped. We arrived late Friday night, negotiating the train lines with hardly a scerrick of German between us. It was bitterly cold and I was ill-prepared and untrained for this kind of weather. Walking to our hostel, I thought “what a dirty city” as ‘dust’ floated down on me. After the penny dropped (along with the temperature), the realisation that it was actually snow and not debris was far too exciting for this stupid Australian! Our hostel (suggestively named Helter Skelter) was unpleasantly ... read more