#27

@Rodrigo : the superbooth will take place 3-5th may.

https://www.superbooth.com/de/

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#28

That might be cool to check out. Most of my daytimes will be tied up, but catching some stuff in the evening would be sweet.

#29

Heading to Superbooth in a few days… will have all of Sunday to go exploring… based near Tempelhof.

any more recommendations?

Never been to Berlin, despite almost everyone saying I would love it… really excited.

#30

Common Ground is kind of close!

and then you can walk to KINDL from there:

http://www.kindl-berlin.com/

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#31

I’ll be in berlin for pictoplasma, which is at the same time as superbooth apparently…

#32

Patch Point is pretty nice. Also went to Schneiders, but I have to say it’s not really my jam/vibe.

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#33

Schneiders is closed over Superbooth, as the whole of FEZ becomes like a massinve Schneiders, so keeping Sunday for non synth stuff…

will go wandering, so any areas in town that are good to wander.

#34

If the weather is good and you’re hungry, I really enjoyed Thai Park in Wilmersdorf. I think it’s typically open on the weekend.

But yeah, wandering wherever will yield something interesting. I miss Berlin.

#35

Berliners, are you still around? I’m moving to your beautiful city next week, and looking for long term living space seems like a huge pain. Would love any tips regarding looking for accommodation, website links and/or contacts. Thanks a lot! :slight_smile:

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#36

Hey, finding a flat has become quite complicated compared to 10 or 12 years ago. These days the temp solution is often not much more expensive then a permanent flat anymore for which by now you best have a steady job and need to be willing to provide quite a few proofs… wondering when you’ll be asked for blood samples. I live in Berlin for more than 12 years now. Friends usually get their flats through Immobilienscout24, wg-gesucht.de, etc. Best is usually friends of friends who know friends… So, feel free to PM me to send me more info what you are looking for… and good luck!!

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#37

Just so you know that Schneidersladen said quite some racist polemic things around the Brexit referendum and have been quite rude to customers I know. I don’t go there anymore for those reasons. I can totally vouch for Patch Point though!

For music, I can recommend A L’ARME!, which is my favorite festival in Berlin happening first week of August. Always a great mix of avant garde jazz and sound art. This years line up looks amazing!

My recommended touristic places are:

  • Stazi (secret service of the GDR) museum is my all time rec, which is situated in the former headquarters. If you’re up for some pure dystopia.
  • Botanical Garden: It’s greenhouse are old and beautiful, also good if the weather is less great.
  • Sachsenhausen and Haus der Wannseeconferenz for a lesson in what stigmatization looks like and causes. Very important in times like these.
  • Jewish museum for its excellent story telling through experience.
  • Tempelhof, as mentioned before, for a picnic

Some other things:

  • Medical Museum Charite, big collection of medical samples, not for people with a weak stomach.
  • Spreepark, abandoned amusement park.
  • Body Worlds, bit touristy, but very educative tour through (real!) human bodies.
  • DesignPanopticon, museum for bizarre objects.
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#38

Welcome in Berlin, I’d love to hang out!

Be sure to use the “google reverse image search” trick on flat search websites. When I was searching years ago I managed to weed out a lot of scammers by checking if photos came from other websites. Don’t know how bad it is now, but back then I wrote a scaper to filter them, about 40%, out hahaha :nerd_face:

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#39

Biggest tip - immerse yourself with the language, it’s easy to get by just with English but doors definitely open if you persevere with the German. And don’t be dissuaded if at first its difficult, Berliners can be tough personalities at first.

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#40

Any source on this? I cannot find anything. I personally have never had a bad experience at Schneiders. The staff are always very helpful and patient when I’m there. Their advice is also quite solid. I came in once looking for a filter and they recommended Sisters and walked me trough all it’s possibilities.

#41

They seem to have deleted their post and made an “apology”: http://www.stromkult.com/english-humor. The thread about it on MW is gone too.

#42

Rascist?? Or against a country?? Because we britishers are not actually a race…

I’d like to know more on this as I don’t want to support a rascist organisation, but if they just said we are total idiots for Brexit, then i’ll drink to that!

#43

Yeah racist is not the right word, sorry… perhaps nationalistic?

Here’s the screenshot of the deleted post:

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from https://twitter.com/TomWhitwell/status/747827818940215296 (hope its ok sharing this, @TomWhitwell?)

#44

(…or maybe just deeply disappointed to see europa going astray a little bit more.)

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#45

lol I dislike those things about England too :smiley:

And it looks like this is a response to Brexit. I’m sure you can relate to the sentiment…It looks to me like the “ahhh, well we didn’t want you anyway!” “You can’t fire me because I quit” stuff.

It’s just people blowing off steam about a situation they can’t control. I don’t think it should be judged toooo harshly.

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#46

I’m also a Brit who has never had anything but great, friendly & helpful service at Schneider’s. This very much looks like it came from a place of frustration. Thinking back to referendum result day, I recall quite a lot of despair from those of us who figured we were better united than divided. Let’s also consider that the U.K. “representative” within the EU was a certain Mr. Nigel Farage. I’m not at all surprised that there was a certain amount of cynicism doing the rounds at that point.

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