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Berlin - Spotted by Locals
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Berlin cityblog with travel tips from real locals.
We hope to contribute a bit to a better world: experiencing a city the local way is good for intercultural understanding, and good for the world!
Recent Posts
Kumpelnest 3000 – Late night drinking
There are many words to describe this little bar just off the Potsdammer Strasse, garish, offbeat and oddball come to mind. This place pure and simple is the proverbial dump and that’s what I find so charming. It’s a a nice change ...
Sultan Hamam – Pampering, Turkish Style
It’s winter! it’s cold and it’s miserable, so what to do? Nothing lifts the spirits and helps combat those winter blues than a visit to the Turkish baths. Berlin having the large Turkish community that is does, is not short of au...
St George – Charming book store
St George is a small English book store in Woertherstr. The place is packed with new and second hand books in English. Last time I stopped there I got Bukowski’s ‘What matters most is how well you walk through the fire’. I opened t...
Hamburger Bahnhof – Trains and Contemporary Art
Arts and trains haven’t seized to come across each other. Be it trains threatening to come out of Lumiere Brothers’ film at the end of the 19th century, be it locomotives entering the Nave of the Grand Palais in 2007, part of the L’...
KW – Institute for Contemporary Art
KW Institute is a spacious and modern venue for art, with a charming inner yard and many floors, right in gallery-packed Auguststrasse. While sipping a coffee in the yard, the glass cube will throw your image right back at you, and catch you wonder...
Garage – Second Hand Store – The Fun Basement
Once in a second hand one never knows what he /she is going to get. It’s a matter of patience, luck and good eyes. Garage is a very un-pretentious, spacious basement and is divided among clothes with individual prices (two corners for women an...

