So this is
it then, last stop of my tour – Berlin. Before I started my trip I made a
decision that I wouldn’t pay even a single night of accommodation on my trip.
So far so good but my Berlin let me down in that sense. I planned to crash at
one friends place but it didn’t work out so I tried alternative plan: Texted
some of my friends asking might they no anyone who could host me a night or two
and joined emergency couch Berlin group on couchsurfing website, but there was
no result, I was homeless. In Venice it was fine to spend a night at railway
station but I was going to stay 3 nights in Berlin so I needed to do something.
Many of places were fully booked, but I managed to find out a good deal in 3
star hotel… So after a month travelling and sleeping mostly at friends places,
now I suddenly had a room in 3 star hotel… Luxury indeed!
Berlin is a
city with great vibes and interesting history. What makes it most interesting
is that there is not so called single centre but instead there are many areas
that could be considered as centres. Last time I was in Berlin, I was staying
at Eastern side but at this time I was staying at Western side of the city… And
if you don’t know, Berlin is huge, it easily takes around half hour to get one
side of the city to another, but luckily public transports are really good – at
least enough time to sleep when moving one place to another ;)
I spent
these few days in Berlin for just going around and experiencing some cultural
sights. The Unesco world heritage site, “museum sinsel”, Berlin cathedral, the
city of Berlin museum and remainings of Berlin wall. City is full of small
details that can be tracked down to it history, for example some of traffic
lights had the man walking wearing a hat and walking stick… You can only find
these on Berlin.
Besides
that I also met my friend Patricia who I have met before 7 years ago in
Bulgaria. It was an interesting “re-union” since it was funny to see how much
people change in that long period of time. I mean that we had many interesting
conversations related of different kind of points / views of life, what is
right and wrong, or is there even such a things than right or wrong?
Berlin is
also called the nightlife capital of Europe so I needed to find out is it true
or not. On a first evening I was discovering nightlife of Western Berlin on my
own, it was nice and truly the myth of the Eastern part being the “nightlife
centre” is not true anymore. I manage to found few nice jazz lounges and one
very small cosy bar where everyone seemed to know everyone. Second evening I
decided to check what is an Irish pub like in Berlin… to be honest, wouldn’t
recommended that, live music wasn’t good ad prices expensive. On last evening I
thought to experience Eastern Berlin by joining pub crawl. And that was a huge
fan! I did the tour called “alternative pub crawl” and we visited places
called Yesterday Bar-Last Cathedral-Absinth Bar-Mein Haus Am See-Coffee Burger … Every place
was different on is atmosphere from a hippie styule to gothic horror bar and decoration, every place was cool! I would
honestly recommend to take this (or some other) pub crawl tour in Berlin, its
way to find places wouldn’t find otherwise at all. Only think I didn’t like in
places like lounges etc. that it is impossible to just walk into a bar, order
and pay drink. You always needed to sit down first before someone came to ask
what you would like to have, then you could place your order and have a drink…
A simple thing made way too complicated :D
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