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Posted on Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at 3:46 am
In February, Berlin is fantastic, but can be very cold
We had thought about going to Berlin for a few years and the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall to come to the end of this year we decided that should make a reservation.
We saw a comment on the page Travel Simon Calder The Independent on Saturday on the flight and he decided to fly to Tegel is the closest to the center two of the city. This meant flying with British Airways and use the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow in London.
Our flight was due to leave from 8:45 am on Thursday in mid-February. Fortunately, the snow that covered much of southern England had disappeared, but the snow had been scheduled for Berlin.
We checked online and they were left at Terminal 5, which immediately joins a long line fast enough BA Bag "drop off". This airport Modern seems to be a very slow system whereby you queue for a long period as we did, then you are looking for the driver available in person that modern technology does not address as they do in many banks and department stores - a system a number listed as go to the desk. " No, instead is a wizard that comes and goes and if the check in person to the waves BA employee or the next person looking for a check Free on your PDA.
Once past, we must rush to safety and again join another long queue. If delayed here warns against you could lose your flight! Finally we got through security and were able to explore the wonders of Terminal 5. A fine glass warehouse modern styling and metal building with shops and restaurants. Do you have an Airport really need a center like this, it seems that there waste of space. It seems that BAA and British Airways focuses closely on the leasing of large areas of retail, while the control and security zones had been larger and more efficient than the terminal would be more effective.
What a contrast to arrive at the airport Berlin Tegel. The airport is located in the western part of the city and as we got off the plane we were going through passport control in a few minutes and take our bags in five minutes.
The airport terminal building is a hexagon around an open square and the distances walk the shortest 30 meters from the aircraft to the terminal exit. Inside there are many shops and restaurants, between the terminals of Heathrow is open to people who steal or at least waiting to pick up visitors.
There is no right of small (or more purchases in exchange for alcohol, cigarettes and perfumes to enter through different doors, but it seems to individual security and passport control of each door and if you need through these lies in a small room with the small duty free "shop and a snack bar and a few meters the aircraft door.
Unfortunately Tegel must close in 2012 when the Union of Berlin-Schönefeld Airport should be re-opened as Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport 2011. I hope that your design is inspired by cons Tegel Heathrow Terminal style buildings.
After landing even had a little snow around there was nobody at the airport and took a taxi to our hotel, it was very cold, even a point, but dry. The hotel Augusta is located in Charlottenburg in the west area of the city, near the Zoo. It is a very nice little hotel rooms offering breakfast and we were in a couple of old buildings, with spacious rooms with high ceilings that have been modernized.
We had our Rough Guide and slightly exceeded the end of January.The Independent had run a short piece of travel writer Simon Calder's experience of the visit to Berlin in January 1999, one month before the Wall fell in November, coming back to visit more than one of his guides brief "48 hours in Berlin." Armed with this information, we set out and they decided that the best way to get a glimpse of the city on a cold Thursday afternoon was to make a tour in the double-decker tourist bus Berlonina. There are some companies that operate these tours and you can usually pay for the entire trip and get round a bus at a certain point and then move to another.
We got off the bus at the Daimler Chrysler Building Potsdamer Platz and the paid to take the express elevator to the edge of the roof. Very beautiful views of the city from this point. Back to the bus again beyond the single section of the Berlin Wall, through Checkpoint Charlie, and even beyond the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag (parliament).
We have a bus that had been initially and down the shopping street of Kurfürstendamm in KaDeWe department store. This magnificent 100 years has been very warm and welcoming As the evening approached. Visit the top floor restaurant and bar complex overlooking Berlin was great, but going for a food floor was incredible. It are many small bars serving food in the food and drinks of the wide selection of products you can buy. It is a place to visit and stay a while if it was a rainy day in Berlin.
All along the road from the Hotel Augusta is an ideal place relax and enjoy the atmosphere. Reinhards bar and a restaurant. Here are all the staff dressed up in white coats over and out, as was the case of several bars and cafes, regular tables and chairs, with a folded blanket on each chair.
The next morning after breakfast buffet we decided to find an English speaking tour in Berlin. The contact and the guide were outside Zoo station at 9.45am. None been published in the morning at the meeting point for the march of the original West Berlin. Our guide, who was half German and English language has led us into the train at the intersection is the Hackescher Markt. Fortunately there was another couple there, so The tour continued. This is a period of four hours of walking tour costs 12 € per person and worth every penny. The same company also operates a selection of other visits, some of which will be held at the Great Berlin.
It is a great way to see areas explained the history and ask questions. We saw the remains of the wall in the center and near the wall where there was at present, it Two rows of stones.
We drove through the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag and the past in the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial) sculpture and location of the bunker Hitler's. At the end of the tour he had seen all the main tourist attractions, many of course, we had seen from the bus the day before, including the famous TV tower East Berlin they build under the Communist regime and had to be shorter than its counterpart in Moscow. It has a revolving restaurant and we had said to have a spectacular view, but I will not go there, if it is too late.
Our guide told the same story as in "Features" 48 hours in Berlin by The Independent. When they built the tower, church crosses were taken over by the East German government. When the sun shines the world of the tower, a cross appears perfect and this is called revenge for the Pope "of."
We stopped for a snack in one of the delightful cafes in Berlin with blankets on the chairs and went outside walking and attempted to return to our hotel in a resort near Checkpoint Charlie. A very useful Berliner saw us studying our map of reality that when again in subway station, got out of his way to return the correct line. It is very important to take a map to the railway DB S + U-Bahn-Netz opposition from any station to rely on small-scale version is reproduced in tourist publications. The subway system is very efficient and there is a tram to East Berlin.
Saturday was Valentine. Although there were many flower vendors and of the stores were full of Valentine's gifts, it seems that the restaurants do not inflate the price of dinner specials are normally found in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
We started with breakfast at Reinhards. Most people were having breakfast and offers a good choice of German, English, Australia, and New York USA. The breakfast was a glass of champagne and say that we have done.
Breakfast and created us for the cold days ahead and as the day has also been clear and sunny. We went Kurfürstendamm to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church Memorial and then took the subway to visit the Museum of DDR. Both our hiking guide to the movies independent and suggested they go. It should be fairly new, and it was not in the 1998 edition of the guide first shows the need to purchase updated guide you travel.
The DDR Museum is quite small and depicts life in the former East German (GDR). You are invited to touch the exhibits, listen to music and watch TV at the time and the greatest exposure is a plane distribution of a typical subdivision constructed and an original Trabi, you should try to start.
Then he moved to Berlin Cathedral, the cathedral and walked towards the Reichstag. We had to queue for three quarters of an hour and was cold. However oncwe you have more security, are taken by elevator to the roof abnd can walk around the glass dome by Sir Norman Foster desidneg. There viws spectacular city from above and of course as the Parliament and all citizens (and visitors) are welcome to see your work of Parliament is trhere free admission.
The evening ended with a drink in Reinhards and we took the bus to Tegel airport in the morning. The journey takes about 30 minutes and, like all the experience of public transport was very cheap. Apparently, most Berliners depend and cars in fact only about one third of its own.
In general, the city has much unemployment and the difference of Munich, Brussels, London, Rome and other cities, as there is no great amount of very expensive cars around. It does not seem too expensive to remain in Berlin and eating and drink. There are, of course, luxury and style restaurants and seems to be an excellent choice around.
Berlin is a city that is very cold in winter and very hot in summer. The best time to visit is around April or late September. Enjoy your stay in Berlin, we did.
Has anyone Valentine good ideas for me none of the three years. age and class?
I do not really want to make cards generic v-day, because they are so young that I wanted to do something fun and cute. I found something I like that the tube has become a lifeline .... rockets, but I can not find anywhere jacket is the kind of tube. Then I thought of the small bottles of bubbles with a Valentine card linked to that? So stupid? Give me some ideas. Thank you!
I would go for the cookies. Get Small bags and put a couple of cookies on them, perhaps in the form of red hearts or have pellets or sugar in them, and hand the card in one hand for his son. They must be very different in color and have a heart Happy Valentine's Day written in it. I do not trust bubble on 3-year unsupervised ... still in which the scientist "small" phase in which to play so many things can not be!
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