Berlin (1 Viewer)

[Carlow Punks!]

where is the dunkin donuts? downstairs?

Nope, here.... (the long wooden building at the memorial with all the cafes and tourist stuff, you can't miss it....its very big and the only thing there that isn't grey!)

 

[broken arm]

Nope, here.... (the long wooden building at the memorial with all the cafes and tourist stuff, you can't miss it....its very big and the only thing there that isn't grey!)

ha. missed that.

we did notice that the "free" bike tours seemed to involve stop offs at dunkin donuts

 

[skinnerchinner]

heading over in 9 days whos counting ?

i love it over there
any recommendations welcome
i spent too long in berghain last time i was over
what a fucking amazing club

 

[the departed]

i also fucking love berlin.
anybody got any recommendations for sites that have apartments?
lokking for something central around 300 per month..
have a few friends over there for around that much.

 

[killy kill]

you rent friends for 300 a month? what a sucker deal!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

They had me at "This pub cannot be beaten for tastelessness,"


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/06/germany.retail

East German pub Beer, spies and videotape: Stasi drinking den angers Berliners

• Kate Connolly in Berlin
• The Guardian,
• Wednesday August 6 2008

When you pop into your local, you do not expect to be interrogated under a bright lamp or recruited to the secret police while your pint is being pulled. But the owners of a new Berlin pub plan to offer these services and more at their espionage-themed drinking den, which pays tribute to the east German Stasi.
The Firm - the slang term to describe the secret police of the communist regime - is decked out with memorabilia from the bygone era, including shredded surveillance logs, Stasi porcelain and an urn the owners claim contains the ashes of the former east German leader Erich Honecker. A surveillance camera at the door tracks the guests as they enter.
The pub - which is situated on Normannenstrasse in east Berlin, the street that was once home to the former Ministry of State Security - has provoked outrage among former victims of the secret police.
"This pub cannot be beaten for tastelessness," Marianne Birthler, director of the government's archive of Stasi records, told the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper, adding that anyone who had seen inside the regime's files "would not have the stomach for a beer in that bar".
It is estimated that the Stasi employed 90,000 full-time spies and 100,000 unofficial informers, who snitched on and terrorised hundreds of thousands of citizens.
But the pub's owners, Willi Gau, 60, and Wolle Schmelz, 53, who launched The Firm after being sacked from a call centre and claim to have never been members of the Stasi, insisted the pub was merely a "provocative but serious piece of satire".

 

[skinnerchinner]

well im off tomrrow

cant fucking wait

yowza
this time im going to make it to hardwax

 

[Reets]

any recommendations of 'must see' places in berlin? also any good clubs pubs etc, anything fun really, there's about 20 of us going so tips would come in handy.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

any recommendations of 'must see' places in berlin? also any good clubs pubs etc, anything fun really, there's about 20 of us going so tips would come in handy.

pubs and clubs wise, prenzlaur berg is pretty well apointed.
theres so much to see and do I wouldnt know where to start...

 

[Stan Bowles]

Off to Berlin tomorrow, anyone been there recently and have any bar/restaurant recommendations?

 

[BarryTape]

This place is fairly good http://www.cassiopeia-berlin.de/ nice area and the set to pimp my ride europe is there, it was being built when I was there, kind of helped saved the whole place from being bought and turned into something shite.

There's a nice Urban beach as well that would be worth having a few drinks at.

Go on "the alternative Berlin tour" http://www.alternativeberlin.com/ sound guys and they'll show you loads off good spots.

 

[BarryTape]

Link about the urban beaches http://www.internationalliving.com/...Europe/Germany/Country-Archive/07-31-07-urban

 

[HMD]

Off to Berlin tomorrow, anyone been there recently and have any bar/restaurant recommendations?

We're there now. So far it's great, not going out at night because of nipper is weird. Going home on Saturday

 

[worthit]

http://super.tacheles.de/cms/

Go here. It's awesome.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

http://super.tacheles.de/cms/

Go here. It's awesome.

What is it?

I'm heading to Berlin soon, but my German's not that great.

 

[HMD]

What is it?

I'm heading to Berlin soon, but my German's not that great.

get a phrase book and you'll be grand.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

get a phrase book and you'll be grand.

Got one this morning, thanks.


Anyone got any bar/restaurant recommendations?



Doesn't someone on this board live in Berlin?

 

[HMD]

Got one this morning, thanks.


Anyone got any bar/restaurant recommendations?



Doesn't someone on this board live in Berlin?

go to halfords rock cafe

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

go to halfords rock cafe

As in Rob Halford?

I'll bring my leather gear.

 

[HMD]

As in Rob Halford?

I'll bring my leather gear.

yeah, there's a 7ft statue of him outside.