Berlin

To-day Alexanderplatz and Bertolt Brecht's platz and Berliner Ensemble, to-morrow Checkpoint Charlie.
Bridge of spies was in fact spy connected only in Le Carre's novels. Real spies were exchanged wrapped in turkish carpets and transported n Wolksvagen combi-vagons.

Try a currywurst while you are there.A Berlin speciality!

Saw CHECkpoint charlie, Brandenburg gate and a temple, Starbucks temple

The Oranium is a good place to eat lunch. Oranienburgerstraße 33/34
10117 Berlin-Mitte

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Well, Charlie Checkpoint was in fact very close to Bertolt Brecht Platz and theater. Taxi driver warned me that junping the wheecle comes from last remains of the wall, whilst I was trying to make some photos more of Brandenburg Gate. He reccomended me bus 29 to see the place on daylight next day, whic I did to-day.

As I said Bridge of spies is just a fiction, but I visited a shop for Persian and Turkish carpets in which real spies used to be wrapped in.

Nina Hagen was singin Breht all right, yesterday, and he brought her 81 year old mother to celebrate mother's brthday. I posted a video on Youtube from that gig.

The theatre looks so old and shabby, that I am amazed it got licene from city fire department.

And curry wurst - mission accomplished, I took currywurst and bokwurst, to go, I will take a bite before to-nights gig of the Sweet.

Fine Italian restaurants
"Olive" at Olivaer Platz
and
"Gioto" near Berliner Ensemble, I don't remember the street, I got gnocchi wuth sage and butter sauce plus glass of house red wine for 15.50 eur.

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Not sure if your 'bridge of spies' comments are a joke that I miss but it really did exist.

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Are you intending to eat your currywurst cold? 🙄

After The Sweet in Huxley's Neue Welt /great gig it was/, I managed to squeeze n sardines like crowded beer bar and to see Arsenal defeating Bayern Munish with 2 goals in finish - priceless. Over draft berliner.

Originally posted by vandervelde
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typical currywurst salespoint 🙂

Only to-day, last day before flight to home, I discovered he real good, Italian, restaurant in the neighbourhood> La Vigna, Bregenzer strasse 0.
Real Italians. They finish pasta in front otf you on special table, the owner personally grates tartufi and parmezan for you.

Forget Olive,forget Pane e pomodoro, this is the place.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Still much culture you have to absorb, padawan.

"first we take manhanttan, and then we take berlin."

leonard cohen

( more culture than you are able to absorb )

Originally posted by vandervelde
Italian, restaurant

Seriously, mate.

You're in Berlin, and you go for Italian restaurants exclusively, and effulge about their authentic Italianicity?

Get a grip, man. Live a little.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Seriously, mate.

You're in Berlin, and you go for Italian restaurants exclusively, and effulge about their authentic Italianicity?

Get a grip, man. Live a little.

You're right.
I should be ashamed and then kill myself.

Originally posted by Seitse
Don't mention the war!

You mean the US Iraqi war? Yep, they get pretty pissy about that. The US is so evil and all.

As for their war...............................just let it be. 😵