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Juliette Teunissen

Berlin 🇩🇪 (TD Summer 2019)

28 June

7am - Get in train at Leiden Centraal

7:30am - Arrived at Schiphol train station

9am - With a slight delay, we take off for Berlin

10:30am - Landed in Berlin Schonefeld

11:30am - On train to downtown Berlin, took forever, really bad signs

12:30pm - Arrived at Alexanderplatz, walked to hostel

no check-in till 2pm so put stuff in locker

1pm - District mot + walked around the area

1:45pm - At deutsche historische museum, history from 500AD-now, exhibit about the Weimar republic

Walk back, saw tv tower, stopped at dm for supplies (learned about the pharmacy in Budapest)

3:45pm - Went to hostel room, unpacked for a bit

5pm - Walked to Alexanderplatz to Saturn/mediamarkt to look for a fan for heat, only ones left were >€30

6pm - Took metro to U Kotbusser Tor in Kreusberg district

6:30pm - Reservation at Lode and Stijn, start trip in style with prix fixe menu

9:30pm - Metro back to hostel

10pm - Chat with ppl in hostel

12am - Went to sleep before touristy day


29 June

4am - Girls coming in from late night

7am - Others are packing to leave

10am - Dutch roommate wants to come with, left for restaurant

10:50am - Little late because lots of construction, got a spot outside at steel vintage bikes cafe

12pm - At Pariser Platz at Brandenburg gate, Sandeman free walking tour. Saw holocaust memorial, site of Hitler’s bunker/car park, wall, checkpoint Charlie, square, Bebelplatz

2:15pm - Met Dutch guy on tour

2:45pm - Ended tour, asked for wine recs

3:15pm - Expensive wine shop, kept walking

3:30 - 5:30pm - Mozzarella bar, drink wine and eat snacks in the sun, enjoying the summer.

8pm - Hang out at hostel of the Dutch guy and make friends with some British students + an Australian guy, who comes along with us

9:30pm - Get a very German (?) pizza for dinner

11pm – Go to fancy wine bar


30 June

12:40am - Take taxi to Oberbaum bridge where there are a lot of clubs

1am - Dutch guy tries going in Watergate alone as a “tactic”, is not allowed in

1:10am - in Musik & frieden (not techno), paid €15 entry, disagree about vibe but we leave

2:30am - in line at Trésor, n2 techno club in Berlin. We make it inside and it’s in a basement with lots of winding corridors and smoky rooms playing techno music with a repetitive beat, not really my scene

3:30am – Leaving the Dutch guy to enjoy the techno, the rest of us went back to the area around the hostel. W get wine and sat on a terrace as it was starting to get bright outside

4:30am - I was that person getting back at 4 in the morning

8:45am - Groggy wakeup

10am - Brunch with Dutch roommate at Factory Girl, delicious

11am - Took train alone to airport bus station

11:30am - Sfter wondering around, found bus station way behind. Turns out google maps can be really wrong

12pm - Arrive at Tegel airport, have a currywurst

12:12pm - Stress about baggage, no person there so I go in

1:30pm - Flight delayed

2pm- Try to board plane, have to wait till end (tried to re-check in but you can’t <2hrs before boarding)

2:40pm - Finally leave

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