OT Berlin

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Jewish memorial
Extremely moving

go to the Olympic stadium

edit I **** myself at the stadium but it’s not compulsory

 

[dennisboothstash]

You must look dodgy, we didn't validate our tickets, but the conductor just looked at our passports,made a note, and let us off.

Our conductor was after paying for his next holiday by the time he’d finished with us all!

 

[dennisboothstash]

Spend time in the old east side and Turkish area - a bit edgier but a lot less commercial.

Also, if your thing, make sure you have a german street kebab - they are a thing of wonder and nothing like the crap we get over here.

Turkish area was brilliant, and when we went was the fashionable place to dance the night away…God knows what we were doing there!

 

[dennisboothstash]

Not been up, although had a drink in the area which was nice, but the restaurant up the television tower is supposed to be good.

No idea where but in the days when I was happy to be complicit in the murder of animals we had a full suckling pig on a table in a pub just for our party. Classic apple in the mouth style. Was very nice.

Nice meal in some Italian under railway arches too.

None of this is helpful because apart from the Turkish area where we stayed once, and a nicer hotel round the Brandenburg Gate we stayed another time I can’t really remember where it was we ate and drank…for fairly obvious reasons!

 

[Phinius T Bookbinder]

Jewish memorial
Extremely moving

go to the Olympic stadium

edit I **** myself at the stadium but it’s not compulsory

I’ll bare it all in mind especially the last bit. Ta Chazz

 

[Phinius T Bookbinder]

Spend time in the old east side and Turkish area - a bit edgier but a lot less commercial.

Also, if your thing, make sure you have a german street kebab - they are a thing of wonder and nothing like the crap we get over here.

Cheers FLG

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

I’ll bare it all in mind especially the last bit. Ta Chazz

Quite liberating going commando for the rest of the day and night
Trousers were optional at quite a few pubs too as I don’t remember honest

 

[Phinius T Bookbinder]

Quite liberating going commando for the rest of the day and night
Trousers were optional at quite a few pubs too as I don’t remember honest

Caught with yer Panzers down eh.

 

[balkan tiger]

May not be very helpful, although there’s a little part at the end about newer similar developments, but my favourite left field place I’ve been to a couple of times in Berlin was Kunthaus {quieten down at the back!} Tacheles which was an art squat with galleries and bars in it. Great place but sadly everyone was evicted* a long time ago so it’ll be apartments now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthaus_Tacheles

*perhaps given the number of evictions from there the E2/3 area could be renamed the Kunthaus?

Better using the name for the new North stand kop?

 

[Des Head]

Not been up, although had a drink in the area which was nice, but the restaurant up the television tower is supposed to be good.

No idea where but in the days when I was happy to be complicit in the murder of animals we had a full suckling pig on a table in a pub just for our party. Classic apple in the mouth style. Was very nice.

Nice meal in some Italian under railway arches too.

None of this is helpful because apart from the Turkish area where we stayed once, and a nicer hotel round the Brandenburg Gate we stayed another time I can’t really remember where it was we ate and drank…for fairly obvious reasons!

It's like listening to Judith Chalmers.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

It's like listening to Judith Chalmers.

Big fan of Judith me. Game old bird. Likes her boxing.
Little known fact but Judith was at the Ali v Frazier fight at madison square garden.
Sat in Dennis’s seat

 

[balkan tiger]

It's like listening to Judith Chalmers.

See him more of an Alan Wicker.

 

[TwoWrights]

Use the S Bahn to get around the city - if you are into history Sachsenhausen concentration camp is a 30 min drive north of Berlin but warning its a very sobering experience.

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[LeftSaidFred]

Jewish memorial
Extremely moving

go to the Olympic stadium

edit I **** myself at the stadium but it’s not compulsory

Also take a look at the Romany Memorial which is near the Bundestag in the park. I learned about something I knew nothing about, eye opening in a very sad way.

 

[dennisboothstash]

Big fan of Judith me. Game old bird. Likes her boxing.
Little known fact but Judith was at the Ali v Frazier fight at madison square garden.
Sat in Dennis’s seat

Evicted again

 

[dennisboothstash]

Jewish memorial
Extremely moving

go to the Olympic stadium

edit I **** myself at the stadium but it’s not compulsory

I feel I shouldn’t say this…but I will.

we went to the Jewish memorial (assuming you mean the Holocaust memorial near Brandenburg?) which for those that haven’t is lots of different sized tall blocks, most much taller than you.

@askewshair slightly ruined the sombre, thoughtful, experience…by jumping out and shouting boo!

To be fair to him it was a weird weekend. Me and him also ended up marching in a protest. Serious enough for a Police escort, but genuinely no idea what it was about but they looked like our type of people and I do like a protest !

 

[askewshair]

I feel I shouldn’t say this…but I will.

we went to the Jewish memorial (assuming you mean the Holocaust memorial near Brandenburg?) which for those that haven’t is lots of different sized tall blocks, most much taller than you.

@askewshair slightly ruined the sombre, thoughtful, experience…by jumping out and shouting boo!

To be fair to him it was a weird weekend. Me and him also ended up marching in a protest. Serious enough for a Police escort, but genuinely no idea what it was about but they looked like our type of people and I do like a protest !

Good memories of two very different trips, one with our better halves and then a stag weekend both involving ridiculous amounts of alcohol. Dennis had done the research, so I was quite happy to be dragged along and didn’t even know where some of these weird memories in my head actually came from until just reading his posts! Although unhelpful for you Phinius (as presumably out of season) the stag group took in a Hertha Berlin game. The very different match day experience was well worth it.
The stag party was actually for Dennis’s son in law. His daughter’s parting words to the groom before the trip were ‘don’t try and keep up with dad’. As he was later seen vomiting into a bin in the middle of a very busy underground station, he obviously failed to take her advice.

 

[Noggin The Nog]

It's like listening to Judith Chalmers.

Who's her son? Used to present the RU on the telly. Or am I getting him confused with someone else's son?

Ps..I never knew that Ben Fogle is the son of actress Julia Foster.

 

[John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.]

Trabi safari tour in the old Trabants.

I rode in one in East Germany in the eighties, and experience not to be missed, if you like a downgrade of a Reliant.

 

[Phinius T Bookbinder]

Good memories of two very different trips, one with our better halves and then a stag weekend both involving ridiculous amounts of alcohol. Dennis had done the research, so I was quite happy to be dragged along and didn’t even know where some of these weird memories in my head actually came from until just reading his posts! Although unhelpful for you Phinius (as presumably out of season) the stag group took in a Hertha Berlin game. The very different match day experience was well worth it.
The stag party was actually for Dennis’s son in law. His daughter’s parting words to the groom before the trip were ‘don’t try and keep up with dad’. As he was later seen vomiting into a bin in the middle of a very busy underground station, he obviously failed to take her advice.

Boys will be boys.