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Post by JohnnyNeptune on Jan 3, 2008 9:11:50 GMT 1
and that's a fact.
Berlin is amazing, people. you should all go.
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Post by merkin on Jan 3, 2008 9:14:30 GMT 1
Did you go and look for the wall?
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Post by JohnnyNeptune on Jan 3, 2008 9:17:26 GMT 1
we found loads of the wall. it was ace.
nobody asked to see my papers though, that was the only bit of disappointment of the whole trip
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Post by belly77 on Jan 3, 2008 11:49:06 GMT 1
Did anybody slap you across the face with a leather glove?
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Post by JohnnyNeptune on Jan 3, 2008 11:52:09 GMT 1
sadly not
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ab
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Post by ab on Jan 3, 2008 11:56:20 GMT 1
Herr Flick is now an IT manager somewhere so there's a chance that sith could get the double slap with leather gloves at work one day.
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brispie
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Post by brispie on Jan 3, 2008 11:58:34 GMT 1
Did you find the bunker?
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Post by daleylama on Jan 3, 2008 12:01:41 GMT 1
How can it be the best new years ever in a city full of germans? I bet nobody missed the countdown for starters....
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Post by GroveR on Jan 3, 2008 12:25:32 GMT 1
Oi, drinking with boxheads is ace. They just don't know when they're beaten.
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Post by JohnnyNeptune on Jan 3, 2008 13:11:32 GMT 1
yes we did find the bunker. it's a car park. they built the holocaust memorial right next to it.
drinking bier, schwarzbier, weissbeir, gluhwein & grog with 1000000 germans was great.
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Post by brispie on Jan 3, 2008 13:14:47 GMT 1
Good work. Didn't they concrete it in?
I think that they have hidden the place where Hitler was burned, but you may be able to tell me differently.
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Post by JohnnyNeptune on Jan 3, 2008 13:22:38 GMT 1
the russians destroyed it and concreted it over, then they opened it up and concreted it over again. then dug it all out, concreted it over again and then put a car park on top.
the russians and the german sense of national guilt means that pretty much nothing of the nazi era remains - nowadays though the germans are able to talk about stuff so there's loads of signs saying 'gestapo building was here'
there's more of east germany there than you think though - if you look hard enough. the traffic lights were best.
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Post by brispie on Jan 3, 2008 14:51:06 GMT 1
I'd heard that you can still tell when you enter East Berlin as the buildings are still Communist monstrosities. I assume that they are changing that though.
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Post by nsn on Jan 3, 2008 15:41:14 GMT 1
There's a range of monstrosities in all parts of the city which is as much a function of it being flattened in the war as anything else. What has been restored or newly built is often astonishing though. When we arrived we thought it was pretty bleak but it sort of gets under your skin. Shot towards the top of my favourite cities list that's for sure. I'll never forget standing in on top of the Reichstag in the snow yesterday afternoon.
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 3, 2008 15:44:49 GMT 1
cf. Elephant and Castle. Or Coventry for that matter. Not sure what Sheffield's excuse is.
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Post by bromley on Jan 3, 2008 16:59:53 GMT 1
Is Berlin as cheap for a capital city as I've heard it is?
How much for beer?
How much for reasonable hotel?
How much for decent meal for two with a bottle of wine?
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Post by MikR on Jan 3, 2008 17:08:00 GMT 1
How I failed to shag a stunning Spanish bird I was sharing a dorm with in a youth hostel in Berlin in 2000 will forever remain a mystery. See also - losing her e-mail address. FFS.
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Post by JohnnyNeptune on Jan 3, 2008 17:16:20 GMT 1
brommers. we did the whole 3 days, incl playing for place to stay on 500E. if you're happy to eat your weight in sausages you can do lunch for less than 5E, incl a beer.
reasonable hotel? we stayed at Ostel, der DDR hostel no less, for 130E* for 3 days. the 2 nights we had food we spent 40E (1 course and drinks**) and 55E (2 ENORMASS courses and drinks**)
there'll be better places to stay, in more affluent areas, but where we went was really great. it was 5 min walk to ostbahnhof, which was 5 mins from the centre of town. trains are remarkably on time all the time and cheap as chips.
*half price mind, they fucked things up and we beat them into a deal
** only one of us was drinking. the other wasn't allowed to, the nhs frowns upon these things these days. yay for nsn and her rapidly growing womb
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Post by Fenton on Jan 3, 2008 17:21:04 GMT 1
very subtle sith edit -to add a little winky  |
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Post by fgrfc_dan on Jan 3, 2008 17:26:14 GMT 1
Remarkable. Good work sith and nsn.
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Post by sideshow on Jan 3, 2008 17:42:15 GMT 1
That would be the same excuse Will.
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 3, 2008 18:11:54 GMT 1
no shit?
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 3, 2008 18:15:44 GMT 1
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when you find out who done it smithy, give us a shout and we'll sort him out for you
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crikey nsn - you were that desperate to get him off facebook?
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Post by CaptainSambuca on Jan 3, 2008 18:16:01 GMT 1
fritz never bombed grimsby
make of that what you will
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 3, 2008 18:16:47 GMT 1
the seaside town that they forgot to bomb?
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Post by JohnnyNeptune on Jan 3, 2008 18:18:49 GMT 1
I gave up on the facebook thing when he was still chatting on there at 3am on Boxing Day  not sith, he's still logged in of course |
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Post by sideshow on Jan 3, 2008 18:22:07 GMT 1
there was a bit of slum clearing but yes, no shit.
It's why I'm having trouble finding a nice house there, stupid Fritz.
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 3, 2008 18:22:37 GMT 1
this is right confusing. hold on
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Post by CaptainSambuca on Jan 3, 2008 18:24:05 GMT 1
pretty much the complete opposite wilma
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Post by Will_75 on Jan 3, 2008 18:25:35 GMT 1
no shit indeed sidey
we need bernie and his frankly creepy knowledge of the bosche's WWII activities to set me straight.
the C20th is a bit modern for me. My current obsession is with the decline of the Roman republic. That Sulla was a right double hard bastard, i tell thee.
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