Location: Berlin, Germany
With thanks to New Berlin Tours, (which I highly recommend), I now know that the Berlin wall came down in 1989 making a visit today to the growing city comparable to hanging out with an eighteen year-old kid - testing the world's boundaries and finding its own sense of self. With a social atmosphere intertwined amongst history, of which you are reminded as you walk over the markings of the fallen wall on the streets and footpaths, there is more to plenty to be discovered.
After watching the Rough Guide's travel show, the one place I had to visit was Dr Pong's. Shaking off the fatigue that was trying to set in after yet another 6:30am flight from London, a day out at the Berlin Zoo, a stroll along the East Side Gallery and dinner, the crew made way on the local U-Bahn metro to Eberswalder Strasse station. Along a main street next to some funky shops, we saw the window with a masking taped sign 'DR PO00'.... We were there!
With thanks to New Berlin Tours, (which I highly recommend), I now know that the Berlin wall came down in 1989 making a visit today to the growing city comparable to hanging out with an eighteen year-old kid - testing the world's boundaries and finding its own sense of self. With a social atmosphere intertwined amongst history, of which you are reminded as you walk over the markings of the fallen wall on the streets and footpaths, there is more to plenty to be discovered.
After watching the Rough Guide's travel show, the one place I had to visit was Dr Pong's. Shaking off the fatigue that was trying to set in after yet another 6:30am flight from London, a day out at the Berlin Zoo, a stroll along the East Side Gallery and dinner, the crew made way on the local U-Bahn metro to Eberswalder Strasse station. Along a main street next to some funky shops, we saw the window with a masking taped sign 'DR PO00'.... We were there!
Unlike what I had perceived on tv, this bar had nothing to hide. No secret doors or dingy alleyway to the entrance, Dr Pongs was all in black in white. A bar with a ping-pong table.
Throughout the night steady games of "Around the World" were in progress. People were running around the table taking turns to have their hit, many making friends along the way. With a DJ, mini-Foosball table, cheap grog and a re-acquaintance with passive smoke Dr Pongs characterises the new Berlin, with plenty to offer. If only we were there for longer than a weekend!
Item 23: Berlin? CHECK!
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