Berlin’s a large city and its layout, lacking a single ‘city centre’ may be confusing at first. The former ‘eastern’ centre is located around Alexanderplatz, whereas the former ‘west’ had its centre near the Zoologischer Garten station. Although both are linked by frequent S-Bahn and U-Bahn lines, getting from one to the other is likely to take half an hour, which means you’d be best of planning ahead, thereby attempting to focusing your activities to either sides of the city each day. On another east-west note, you may find it difficult to know whether you’re in the ‘east’ or ‘west’. Whereas the Soviet building blocks are generally easy to spot, it’s not always as easy and differences between the two have diminished since the fall of the Wall in 1989. Even the Ampelmännchen, which are now world-famous, have in recent years been placed in the former west and therefore cannot guarantee your whereabouts.

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As I’m known to friends and family as a huge fan of Berlin, I frequently get questions about what to do, where to stay and more of such questions. To avoid having to write all my tips down time and time again, thereby undoubtedly forgetting on some tips every time, I decided to make a ‘guide to Berlin, my edition’. This blog, this post is it. In this post you’ll find all the tags my Berlin-posts are tagged with, which will help you find what you are looking for. Furthermore, you’ll find some general words of advice on the city of Berlin. I hope you’ll find the posts and information useful and I’m looking forward to any comments, additions or new tips to explore on my next Berlin visit, which I invite you to leave in the comments.
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