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GERMANY Population 82,282,988 Currency Euro GDP<br />
BERLIN<br />
† €24,595 Dialling code +49<br />
Airport code TXL Flight frequency Seven times daily Average temp (Nov) 4°C<br />
Whether it’s jazz, techno<br />
or marching bands,<br />
there’s no getting away<br />
from music in Berlin<br />
this month. These three<br />
very diff erent festivals<br />
accompany the huge<br />
range of culture and<br />
entertainment that makes<br />
this city of contrasts so<br />
fascinating. Anthea<br />
Gerrie is our city guide<br />
MITTE<br />
This large central area of what<br />
used to be known as East Berlin<br />
houses most major museums plus<br />
happening shops, bars and eateries.<br />
SLEEP Soho House (1 Torstrasse, tel.<br />
(0)30 405044, sohohouseberlin.com,<br />
rooms from €100), offers luxe but quirky<br />
accommodation in a former Bauhaus<br />
department store, with the bonus of<br />
membership (during your stay) to the<br />
hottest members’ club in town.<br />
CULTURE The DDR Museum (1 Karl<br />
Liebknecht Strasse) offers a fascinating<br />
glimpse of 40 years spent living under<br />
communist rule, when even fashion was<br />
dictated by the state. A reconstructed<br />
East Berlin apartment of the Cold War<br />
period is a highlight.<br />
EAT Reinstoff (Edison Höfe, 26c<br />
Schlegelstrasse, tel. (0)30 3088 1214)<br />
with its Michelin-starred cuisine, was<br />
voted Berlin’s best new restaurant this<br />
year. Heinrich (39-41 Rosa Luxemburg<br />
Strasse, tel. (0)30 1389 9906) recreates<br />
Berlin’s pre-WWII heyday.<br />
LATER The Admirals Absinth-Bar<br />
(Admiralspalast, 101 Friedrichstrasse)<br />
offers an authentic taste of the roaring<br />
20s in a variety theatre of the period.<br />
INFO<br />
Tegel Airport is<br />
8km northwest<br />
of the city centre.<br />
Bus Route TXL<br />
connects Tegel<br />
airport with<br />
Hauptbahnhof<br />
(main) station,<br />
Mitte (the city<br />
centre) and<br />
Alexanderplatz<br />
square. Bus X9<br />
connects Tegel<br />
to Zoo Bahnhof in<br />
the western city<br />
centre. Journeys<br />
take about 20<br />
minutes and<br />
tickets cost €2,10.<br />
Taxi A taxi into<br />
the city centre<br />
takes about 20<br />
minutes and costs<br />
around €20.<br />
Tourist offi ce<br />
There are<br />
‘infostores’ at the<br />
Brandenburg Gate,<br />
Hauptbahnhof, 21<br />
Kurfürstendamm<br />
and Schlossplatz<br />
(tel. (0)30 250025,<br />
visitberlin.de).<br />
You’ll receive star treatment<br />
at the Michelin-awarded<br />
new restaurant Reinstoff<br />
CHARLOTTENBURG<br />
While not as cutting-edge as its<br />
eastern neighbours, the green,<br />
affluent centre of West Berlin is<br />
home to major cultural events.<br />
CULTURE JazzFest (3-7 November)<br />
takes place at a series of venues along<br />
the ‘Jazz Mile’, starting at the Haus der<br />
Berliner Festspiele (24 Schaperstrasse)<br />
and leading to the Jazz Institute (43<br />
Einsteinufer) by way of the Hotel Savoy<br />
(9-10 Fasanenstrasse) and legendary<br />
Quasimodo Club (12a Kantstrasse).<br />
The Helmut Newton Foundation (2<br />
Jebensstrasse) shows the classy and<br />
often outrageous work of Berlin’s great<br />
fashion photographer and artist.<br />
SLEEP The charming Brandenberger<br />
Hof (14 Eislebener Strasse, tel. (0)30<br />
214050, brandenburger-hof.com, rooms<br />
from €195) has Asian-inspired décor<br />
and a glass-roofed courtyard on one of<br />
West Berlin’s nicest leafy streets.<br />
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tel. +44 (0)207 613 8784, +32 (0)2 808 1576<br />
EAT Paul (51 Kurfürstendamm, tel. (0)30<br />
8872 5573) offers authentic, affordable<br />
Italian food in stylish surroundings.<br />
SHOP Legendary department store<br />
KaDeWe (21-24 Tauentzienstrasse) was<br />
razed by wartime bombing, raised from<br />
the ashes with a magnificent rebuild, and<br />
recently celebrated its centenary.<br />
KREUZBERG<br />
Berlin’s alternative neighbourhood<br />
is most famous for its ‘beach bars’<br />
on the River Spree – a hopping<br />
hive of nightlife all year round.<br />
CULTURE BerMuDa is the city’s major<br />
new event for clubbers and ravers, taking<br />
place on the first weekend of November<br />
in some of the neighbourhood’s buzziest<br />
bars – of which the most famous is<br />
Watergate (49 Falckensteinstrasse).<br />
LATER Chill with a sauna or massage<br />
at the Badeschiff (4 Eichenstrasse) – an<br />
outdoor lido in summer and thermal<br />
haven suspended over the water in<br />
winter, which is open until midnight.<br />
PRENZLAUER BERG<br />
This old working-class district is<br />
a new haunt for trendsetters as the<br />
happening centre of Berlin moves<br />
relentlessly eastwards.<br />
CULTURE Berlin’s Military Music<br />
Festival is a rousing mix of marches<br />
and rock numbers taking place at the<br />
Max Schmeling-Halle (1 Falkplatz,<br />
6-7 November).<br />
SHOP 03 (3 Oderbergerstrasse) sells<br />
homegrown and international gifts.<br />
TIP Ask locals about the impromptu<br />
flea markets that pop up at weekends.<br />
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