☆ENGLISH ONLY☆コミュのBerlin is "....."?

The Hoff- David Hasselhoff

When I was there I thought it ws a weird mix of Western bloc and Eastern bloc. In some ways it's more backwards than Moscow.

Berlin is going to be the capital of Europe in the near future.The whole European Union is moving eastwards now.
I think it is fit for the Germans to be the leaders of Europe.They are a very disciplined and strong people.Their aid programs also help alot other 3rd world countries.
Also without Germany,European security and military forces would be very weak.

One word:

Liederhosen

You cannot forget the liederhosen.

One more word:

Beer.

You cannot forget the beer nor the liederhosen.

Oh, yeah, and the Autobahn, where you can drive 250 KPH and still be in the slow lane.

・Garmans and bald head men

・Obsessed recycle spirit in houshold rubbish-separated out into different type

Guess its not about Berlin but wanted tell you a great Garman film called "Bandits" that is story about a women's jail and this soundtrack is good too.

Hmmm...
I'm from Germany...
I haven't been to Berlin so many times, so I don't know　really know what's good there. But even if I did, I wouldn't really feel like telling you after having read your post. I wish you good luck with your research, though.

I love Berlin! Actually I visited friends living there last year and mentioned what I thought about the city in my diary.
Here's my brief summary.

1. Good clubs... excellent tunes and cool bumpkins (もっさいのがイイ ww.. no need to dress up and slap on the make up to have a night out. that's what I like about Germans...)
Besides I love German elektronika!

2. Good drinkin culture... Bars are open till very late / early morning, with huge portion spirits and massive beer glasses. Everyone's heaveyweight? Apparently people drink so much! I saw young girls hold a wine bottle (of each!) and drink from it on the street.
But the good thing was, they all seemed to enjoy drinking and no one looked shitfaced or violent unlike in the UK!

3. Loads of cyclists... Probs it's a bike friendly environment where people have good traffic manners and don't nick parked bikes. So maybe air's clean which is good.

4. Clean toiletten everywhere... From a female point of view, going to clean and safe loos is important and I was well impressed.

People I met were all nice, friendly and professional (probably they are not fed up with tourists yet...) and seriously I thought it had such a good vibe.

>worst Italian food ever
Funny... It reminds me of "noodles" I ordered.
I asked for an English menu and chose "noodles" expecting it to be oriental stir fry noodles type (the restaurant looked eclectic). But what I had was spaghetti! It was in fact spaghetti pasta bake... I'd have been less disappointed if I'd known that it's meant to be Italian... haha.

BTW my other friend's sister runs an art gallery in Mitte area, hope that's not where you went!

Ha berlin that little green man at the traffic lights.

And yeah the cool bars converted from old places... so many run down places, done up to look cool again..

All kitch-spelling I dunno. That seems to be the cool there.

Shaggable girls, hmmm well there do seem to be a lot more bigger boned girls if that is what you mean. Not so many petite japanese types, but definitely there are some hot girls hidden away.

Get on a bike, at 5 am after drinking, and get some hot chocolate, oh and they have THE BEST turkish food, Sorry turkey, okay maybe the second best, and it's sooo cheap!!

thanks for the comments!

1> Yes, they did actually give a D.Hasselhoff music video a play on some TV I saw...(it was done ironically though)
The Hoff wore a Garth Crooks shirt with the stars and stripes on it...I don't know what it is, but he was born with it
(no it's not Maybeline)

2> Yeah sure, that infact is part of the reason I was sent there to take a look at the City, as some people say Berlin is going to be the Financial and Cultural capital of Europe sometime soon....not really convinced it's going to be either though. Particularly on the financial side, as the Euro is looking increasingly doomed according to financial comment (from over there)

3+4> yes the beer was excellent!
(but I'll still take a pint of London Pride over half a liter of Radler anyday :P)

5> I'm not really into anal-izing myself. Is it something you often do?

6> yeah that sounds like a really good film. I haven't seen it yet but it's one that comes up a lot on the film communites - thanks for the recommendation. I think it's a shame we don't see more German actors, like Jurgen Prochnow, come out of German cinema and make Hollywood films...perhaps because German Directors aren't given the chance...

7> I'll apologize to you カリュー if you were offended, I was actually talking about Berliners, not Germans, so it doesn't really include you, but anyway, if it hurt your National pride then sorry etc.
Admittedly the moustache comment was about Germans, so sorry there....If I was posting seriously I should have said "Berliners and Moustaches" because I saw more moustaches on the streets of Berlin than Paris and London put together. You can take it in a good way though as moustaches have been very fashionable for some time now. The Mexican style moustache is pulled off very well by the lead singer of The Killers in their new video by the way...

8> Yeah a *really* cyclist friendly city - you can take your bike on the subway no problem, and the people I spoke to said they don't really worry about having their bikes stolen either as it doesn't happen so much, which is a plus point over NYC I guess....
I only managed to get 2 club nights in, but Berliners seem to party very hard. Music was ofcourse good, can't argue with the German electronica culture - but personally I prefer the Detroit sound...just more soulful I guess
Yeah saw a couple of galleries in the Mitte area, they were super good, probably your other friend's sister's was one of them....
It's when you go to a surrounding cafe or something that's full those art people, all snobby and stuff - that kind of sticks in the gut a little. I was with a Japanese colleague in one of those places and when he asked if it was alright to take a picture of some art on the wall, the waiter started banging off about how it was an insult to the artwork and Japanese people have no taste or some bollocks....he could have just said "no". That guy's attitude was the norm for most of the 'wanting to be seen hang around in a cafe-art-people' (=hangers on) we encountered...Snobby, as all art people are, just in a very specially annoying way
Yeah although Dancest☆r seems to think it's an insult to give another country's Italian food a chance (you don't know any Italian people do you Dancest☆r?) I did, and it wasn't good. The "German" food was good enough, and the Turkish food was ofcourse excellent. They actually do some pretty good French too in Berlin....
Restaurant interiors were very well done though, even found a weird kitchy place called "white trash" with a really interesting interior - although the food was quite normal.
Not food, but, best shop was "Apartment" in the Hakesche Market area, that brand "Wasted German Youth" looks like it's heating up : )

9> Yeah that little green man has also become a catching grafitti mark all over the city...
Maybe I was a bit harsh on the Berlin girls, but a lot of emos about the place, mixed in with a lot of studenty girls - the ones that like to wear corduroy pants(nothing wrong with that)...
Compared to London and Paris...
well...
Paris mainly
but....
yeah, I was reminded of a song called "It's grim up North" looking at Berlin's fairer sex

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I wasn't impressed with London or Paris either, but they hadn't been hyped up to me as much as Berlin was before going...I just couldn't find the buzz everyone kept telling me about....
Like if you go to NYC you can feel it without actually going out of your way to find something interesting. I think Tokyo is the same.
London was kinda like the tepid English version of the atmosphere they have going on in a city like LA - you can kind of feel it, but it's not really captivating unless you are from there.
Paris could but won't...
and Berlin thinks it is, but isn't....

I think if you want excitement, culture, a melting pot of stuff happening at the same time, and interesting street life, then NYC is still the place to go, followed very closely by Tokyo.

(Just my opinion ofcourse)

((and P/S, I have one mini rant about something I saw in *all three* cities - those fucking taekwondo shoes, espcially when worn by 30 something white men with diesel jeans and a puffy jacket or something. If you like them then good for you, but they are cack. Yes they are. In my opinion etc))