Any recommendations

[JukkeBerry]

No. You seem to know your way around Berlin. How many times have you been there?

I used to live there. Remember the old forum?

[utomjording]

I used to live there. Remember the old forum?

Sorry, my memory is not so good when it comes to remembering where people live. My goal is to remember people's names...
You're right that Berlin is a huge city. I've only been there once and just for a couple of days, so I still have a lot to experience the day I get back.

[JukkeBerry]

Sorry, my memory is not so good when it comes to remembering where people live. My goal is to remember people's names...
You're right that Berlin is a huge city. I've only been there once and just for a couple of days, so I still have a lot to experience the day I get back.

Then I can only recommend checking out what I posted pertaining to Berlin. After all, you motivated me to do that. As in most of my posts, I want similar feedback. In this case, I'm most interested in recommendations regarding Stockholm...

[Suvi]

I think a retired Canadian tour guide would have given a better recommendation of where to go to see the real Berlin. The sights mentioned above are very hard to miss...

"Touristy" Recommendations: The Wall

I'm sorry, I thought you weren't a retired Canadian tour guide ;-)
(Edit: Makes no sense.. Probably should have written "I thought you were a retired Canadian tour guide." Oh well.. I blame it on the wine I drank earlier today.)

I forgot to say that Berlin has the best street musicians!

There are so many interesting cities in Germany! I've only spent one day in Cologne, but I plan to go there someday again. Munich is a bit too touristy for my taste (+ I used to live quite close to it, so I've been there too many times), but I'm sure that a first-time-visitor would like it very much. It's also easy to take a train to Salzburg or Innsbruck (the list could go on and on) from Munich, though I would only recommend a daytrip to Salzburg and I personally don't like Innsbruck that much.

Even if you speak German, don't expect to understand anything they say in Bavaria or Tyrol. I remember sitting in a train from Zurick to Luzern and wondering which language it was that people were speaking. It took me a while to realize that it was in fact German. I'd still like to think that my German is fluent

[JukkeBerry]

I'm sorry, I thought you weren't a retired Canadian tour guide ;-)

I forgot to say that Berlin has the best street musicians!

There are so many interesting cities in Germany! I've only spent one day in Cologne, but I plan to go there someday again. Munich is a bit too touristy for my taste (+ I used to live quite close to it, so I've been there too many times), but I'm sure that a first-time-visitor would like it very much. It's also easy to take a train to Salzburg or Innsbruck (the list could go on and on) from Munich, though I would only recommend a daytrip to Salzburg and I personally don't like Innsbruck that much.

Even if you speak German, don't expect to understand anything they say in Bavaria or Tyrol. I remember sitting in a train from Zurick to Luzern and wondering which language it was that people were speaking. It took me a while to realize that it was in fact German. I'd still like to think that my German is fluent

Munich is my favorite city in the entire world! I guess being born there and growing up there could have something to do with that...

[Suvi]

I think I could live in Munich, but I wouldn't go there for a vacation.

[utomjording]

Then I can only recommend checking out what I posted pertaining to Berlin. After all, you motivated me to do that. As in most of my posts, I want similar feedback. In this case, I'm most interested in recommendations regarding Stockholm...

I haven't lived in Stockholm, so I'm afraid I'm not the most suited person to ask. Are you planning a trip there in the near future?

You could go to Globen, an arena shaped like a giant golf ball, where there are sports and music events.
Dramaten, as I mentioned, for theatre.
The royal castle.
You have to go to the Vasa museum to see the 17th century ship. It's very well preserved.

To get around town, you can take the subway, which is called tunnelbanan or t-banan.

Thanks for your recommendations concerning Berlin, I will have them in mind when/if I get there again.

[Marishka]

For interesting cities I can hardly recommend the follwing:

- Cologne (specially the "Kölner Dom" -> this huge church there ;-))
- Bonn (once been capital city and still a very nice one <3)
- Stockholm (I'm there as often as I can!!)
- Helsingborg (nice city, close to Helsingør (DK) and nice landscapes around)
- Malmö (of course! A wonderful city)
- Lissabon (I LOVE IT!! and have to go there again!)
- London (a tourist-city but still very interesting with great buildings and so on... have been there twice)
- Amsterdam (great great great, will go there again somewhen this year)
- Warsaw (cheap and wonderful)

maybe I'll find some more :-)

[m@rco]

Opera would be cool. I've never been to the opera. I'll probably travel in August.

It should be possible to visit an opera in August, and in the Verona Arena it's a pure treat.

[ИНА AK-47]

first off, you're going to have a wonderful time - regardless of what you do. It helps if you speak a language other than English... Amsterdam is fun to explore on bike, and Germany is a blast (Avoid the neo-nazi hunters. I'm dead serious.) any way you choose. There are always plenty of things to do in Sweden, though I've only passed through Stockholm, but lived in Göteborg for a few months - regardless of what your guidebooks tell you, go there too, if you can fit it in. Its a lovely city.

And remember - everything is better done on bike or foot!

[m@rco]

And remember - everything is better done on bike or foot!

It sure is. Euh, except when you have to travel long distances in a short period of time.

[a violent whisper]

devy is so bad... i love her to pieces even though i have had no time for msn