Advantages: Germany's capital and most interesting city Disadvantages: a bit too large, distances too long
Berlin*, Berlin,
Wir fahren nach Berlin!
(Berlin, Berlin,
We're heading for Berlin!)
(pronounced Ber-leen, stress on the second syllable)
This slogan has been chanted enthusiastically for ages whenever a German sports team made it to the capital for the last round, meanwhile it has left the confines of sports and is now even used by the Berlin Tourist Board for a campaign to attract visitors.
I've been to four Berlins in my life: when in my mother's womb I was in Berlin, then the capital of the Third Reich, from the GDR (German Democratic Republic), where we later lived, I visited Berlin once in the 1950s, a much smaller city then (only the Soviet sector), but still a capital, the capital of the GDR.
After fleeing to West Germany I visited West Berlin, not a capital any more, but no ordinary city, either, it had become ...
Reichstag 1996 - 99 as a headquarters of the German Bundestag was put on a glass dome again and according to plans of the British architect Sir Norman Forster. One can go to these free of charge, must expect a waiting time in front of the entrance, though. It has lasted with me on a weekday approx. 30 minutes until I was driven up in the lift and could climb up about a spiralförmige ramp to the observation platform in 50 m of height. The building can be visited daily from 8:00 to 24:00 hours, is the last admission at 22:00 hours.
I then spent the evening at the Potsdam place in the Sony centre. This has an area of about 25,000 square metres and was completed in June 2000. The film museum Berlin and the Sony-Europazentrale houses cinemas, restaurants. However, spectacular is particularly the tent-roof of the centre. In addition, the Potsdam ...
BACK_IN_BLACK_DEVIL 16.12.2006
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Advantages: Inexpensive, widely available Disadvantages: Boring, widely available
AMSTEL brewery (which is now a subsidiary of Heinekin), was founded in 1870 and is named after the river on which Amsterdam is situated. They produce 10 different kinds of beer which are: Light, 1870, Gold, Malt, Lente Bock, Oud Bruin, Bock, Herfst Bock and - the beer that this review concerns- Lager.
Amstel Lager Beer is sold in over 75 countries worldwide so it is fairly common.
http://www.amstel.com
There's not a lot more to say so after a quick joke we'll get right down to it.......
A guy walks into a butcher's shop and the butcher says, "Bet you a tenner that you can't jump up and touch the meat that's hung up on the ceiling."
The guy says, "No thanks."
Butcher says, "OK, bet you twenty quid that you can't jump up and hit the meat that's hung up on the ceiling."
Bloke says, "No thanks mate."
Butcher says, "OK ...
Opened in 2005, Amstel House is a modern youth hostel within a listed Art Nouveau building in the central Berlin district of Tiergarten.The hostel is located in an area full of tradition and is surrounded by quiet streets, several parks, restaurants and pubs. The Turmstraße underground station is just a 5-minute walk from the hotel, and you are only 2 stops away from Zoologischer Garten station, and the pulsating heart of western Berlin. Our hostel is therefore an ideal base from which to explore the capital.
