Berlin recommendations

[Chris S]

[QUOTE 4775539, member: 259"]Good advice apart from the currywurst![/QUOTE]
You can get currywurst at Birmingham Christmas Market. It's just a sausage covered with tomato sauce mixed with curry powder. It's a good cure for constipation though.

 

[Leaway2]

Still there I think. Is it not at Checkpoint Charlie?

Close by.

 

[Haitch]

You might be interested in this.

 

[rich p]

I was underwhelmed by Berlin. Take the kids somewhere else would be my advice!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I was underwhelmed by Berlin. Take the kids somewhere else would be my advice!

Ditto - grim place in my book.

 

[Melvil]

You might be interested in this.

Right up my street - thanks!

 

[Melvil]

I was underwhelmed by Berlin. Take the kids somewhere else would be my advice!

Anything in particular stuck out or just generally? Genuine question.

 

[Haitch]

Anything in particular stuck out or just generally? Genuine question.

Berlin is in danger of becoming a cliché of itself. There are so many WWII, Cold War, Berlin Wall museums, memorials and remembrances that you're in danger of forgetting you're in a common or garden small city in Germany. It's intersting and all that, but if Germany 1939-1989 isn't your specialised Mastermind subject, it can be a bit wearing.

But that's just my not so humble, and I'm a miserable buffer.

 

[Brains]

I think it was near to CP Charlie that there was an exhibition dedicated to the various attempts to get through the wall that I found interesting. However, it was almost 25 years ago that I was there so it may be closed and I may have the location wrong!

Still there a couple of years ago, and just as fascinating, however probably not for the under 12's

 

[Brains]

I was 'limited' by my wife to only a single day on museum island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Island
For some kids (and I would have been one) it would be an amazing place

 

[Julia9054]

I love Berlin. I find the history and the museums fascinating. The place has a relaxed cool feeling to it, the metro is really easy to use and the night life is great. I'll be staying in Potsdam for a bit this summer. Having said that, I've never been with kids though.

 

[mjr]

I was 'limited' by my wife to only a single day on museum island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Island
For some kids (and I would have been one) it would be an amazing place

Good call! The mind-boggling Pergamon Altar exhibit is closed for rebuilding work until 2019ish, but its museum is still worth visiting to see the Ishtar Gate and others.

The House at Checkpoint Charlie, the Reichstag Dome, the Brandenburg Gate and TV Tower are clichés but still worth seeing. The Victory Column a bit more ambiguous, as is the madman-scale architecture of Tempelhof. Potsdamer Platz is strange now but maybe still worth seeing and sticking two fingers up at what may be one of the oldest traffic light locations cursed on us by irresponsible motorists, although now it's a disused replica.

 

[Haitch]

To make up for my previous grumpiness, a Berlin recommendation. Max Richter.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoqZ-gxxR04&list=RDLoqZ-gxxR04&index=1

 

[robjh]

The tours of WW2 bunkers run by Berliner Unterwelten are interesting, but children are only allowed from 7 years old.

Berlin is very bike-friendly and there are numerous places renting them in and around the centre, but I don't know your children's ages, so you might have to google some to find out about child seats / minimum ages etc.