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Next month I have a couple of days in Berlin with time to kill. Any tourist type recommendations?

UKHamlet wrote:Next month I have a couple of days in Berlin with time to kill. Any tourist type recommendations?

just the usual: Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, Alexanderplatz, Wall museum, world's first traffic light, etc etc

Red light district?

Once you get bored of the red light district, you could try the Stasi Museum. No idea if it's any good or not, though.

If you were there this weekend you could catch a train to Cologne and see Germany v Spain.

Lizard wrote:If you were there this weekend you could catch a train to Cologne and see Germany v Spain.

It could be exciting - you have to go back to 2006 for a German win against "der alte feind". Last year Spain won the fixture in Madrid, 48-16, this could be Germany's year.

I actually toured Germany (& Austria once). We played a combined Munich team (made up from the University Club and München RFC, IIRC). The pitch (the University's) seemed to be a patch of recently cleared woodland and we won by about 50 points (I scored 2 tries). The after match was an excellent BBQ and then a night out, during which I ended up playing cornet in an Oompah Band in a beer hall somewhere.

I liked German rugby.

Austria was crap. We played on a very narrow Gridiron pitch, and the groundsman chucked us out at halftime because we were cutting the ground up too much in the pissing rain.

Oranienburger Strasse in Mitte district, area or whatever they call them. Lots of interesting bars around the area off the main street in crumbly or bombed out builidings. A bit red lightish praps, but not in a dangerous way.

....and go see the Ishtar Gate at the Pergamon Museum. Think it's free. Quite spectacular. If gates are your bag.

Lizard wrote:I actually toured Germany (& Austria once). We played a combined Munich team (made up from the University Club and München RFC, IIRC). The pitch (the University's) seemed to be a patch of recently cleared woodland and we won by about 50 points (I scored 2 tries). The after match was an excellent BBQ and then a night out, during which I ended up playing cornet in an Oompah Band in a beer hall somewhere.

I liked German rugby.

Austria was crap. We played on a very narrow Gridiron pitch, and the groundsman chucked us out at halftime because we were cutting the ground up too much in the pissing rain.

My son played for the University Club in 2013/2014 while he was studying at the TUM.

Get into Berghain.

Get off your nut and have some transexual albino blow gak up your arse.

Stooo wrote:Get into Berghain.

Get off your nut and have some transexual albino blow gak up your arse.

What's it like?

Berghain or the gak blowing?!

"blow gak up your arse"

Sweet Jesus.

morepork wrote:"blow gak up your arse"

Sweet Jesus.

It's what they do when you can't sniff it anymore. The gak that is. Not someone's arse.


Alledgedly.

Lizard wrote:I actually toured Germany (& Austria once). We played a combined Munich team (made up from the University Club and München RFC, IIRC). The pitch (the University's) seemed to be a patch of recently cleared woodland and we won by about 50 points (I scored 2 tries). The after match was an excellent BBQ and then a night out, during which I ended up playing cornet in an Oompah Band in a beer hall somewhere.

I liked German rugby.

Austria was crap. We played on a very narrow Gridiron pitch, and the groundsman chucked us out at halftime because we were cutting the ground up too much in the pissing rain.

Is that a euphemism or should we take it literally?

No, all though I did try playing the euphemism once or twice, I preferred the corner.

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Billyfish wrote:....and go see the Ishtar Gate at the Pergamon Museum. Think it's free. Quite spectacular. If gates are your bag.

It isn't free. Was in Berlin 2-3 weeks ago. This one is really nice. Careful mind, the Pergamon exhibition wing is closed for renovation at the moment.

The Volksbhune area is interesting. The concert hall is worth looking at and the Babylon cinema is close by too. There are also some lovely little bars in the smaller streets leading to it. Some of these still seemed to permit smoking back in 2014, which was a bit of a surprise. This is all close to Rosa Luxemburg Platz, and her story is well worth discovering. If you like detective fiction, you might enjoy reading Phillip Kerr, who has 'Bernie Gunther' as his protagonist. Most of the stuff is based in 30s and 40s Berlin. Interesting to match locations and buildings then, to what's there now. The History Museum is excellent, but there's so much around you anyway that it may not be needed.