Lidia and I decided to spend a romantic weekend there and yes, it is worth doing. There is no point in going on about the wonderful and fascinating combination of history and politics that form the backdrop of the city; others have written of it elsewhere and better. I will simply say that it is a great city for walking around, and an excellent city for modern architecture.
Pictures of our adventures are here.
And what do you know, from mid-March to mid-April it is also a phenomenal city for eating. There is a yearly festival / contest between 30 or so of the best restaurants in the city. They each provide a cheap menu of what is usually very expensive food, with the idea of enticing the average bier-and-wurst-eater to try something better. Kudos to them; it was brilliant and we did it two of our three nights. For planning your 2009 excursion here is the web site: http://www.tour-de-gourmet.com/
Our choices were the Zille-Stube and the Atelier im Maritim.
We stayed at a hotel called the Upstalsboom in an up-and-coming area called Friedrichshain.
Berlin is fun. We saw a movie at the awesome Sony Plaza, ogled the architecture, and ate well.
Pictures of our adventures are here.
And what do you know, from mid-March to mid-April it is also a phenomenal city for eating. There is a yearly festival / contest between 30 or so of the best restaurants in the city. They each provide a cheap menu of what is usually very expensive food, with the idea of enticing the average bier-and-wurst-eater to try something better. Kudos to them; it was brilliant and we did it two of our three nights. For planning your 2009 excursion here is the web site: http://www.tour-de-gourmet.com/
Our choices were the Zille-Stube and the Atelier im Maritim.
We stayed at a hotel called the Upstalsboom in an up-and-coming area called Friedrichshain.
Berlin is fun. We saw a movie at the awesome Sony Plaza, ogled the architecture, and ate well.
