Berlin VS Rest of Germany Part 1 - Hop on Hop off Bus Berlin

I think in every country it´s the same game. People from the capital think they live in the best part of the nation and people from other parts think that they are not. The mentality of capital citizens and the rest seems to be totally different :D - It is a hate - love.

It doesn´t matter if you are in Madrid -Spain , London - England, Paris - France, Mexico City - Mexico etc. or here in Germany with Berlin ;) - I think we all know what I mean ;)

I am from Munich and lived the last 3 years at the Riviera in Mexico. I have to admit that when I grew up I thought the same about Berlin and it´s people... "they are just so different from Munich", we have nothing to do with the north etc... but as I moved to a city like Playa del Carmen in Mexico these thoughts change.

You know, over there nobody is from Playa del Carmen really... it is a big intercultural mix of people from all over the world and you get to know so many opinions and mentalities that you start to think different and let go all this prejudices.

Now I am at my country for 2 month until I start a new world travel. Some friends of mine from Spain are escaping from the heat there (48 degrees) and asked me to visit me here. They also wanted to see Berlin so we met there, stayed for a few days and went to Munich afterwards. - My chance to change my mind about our capital. I have been there a few years before and hated it :D

Well, the first impression was great. I just mentioned on Facebook that I will be there for a few days and friends living there already offered me a place to stay!! - Really nice and open... maybe in Munich it wouldn´t go that easy... at least not with everyone.

So I went there, left my things at my friends apartment and met my friends from Spain in the city center. We weren´t really prepared for sightseeing haha (we where roomies in Mexico for a while, guess that Caribbean thinking got stuck a bit).

So at first we just walked around get an impression of the city image. The next 2 days we went around with the hop on hop off bus as a Mexican girl offered us a good price 30EUR for 2 days, all 3 tours. If it is a mexican girl selling it it has to be a sign right? She just lived next to where we lived... again you can see how small the world is :D

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I think every one of you knows the way to go around with theses buses already: You buy for one, two or like we did-all 3 lines and can use the bus that is driving this circle. At every stop you have the possibility to get off the bus, walk around and take the next one to go on with the tour. While you are on the bus you can sit on the roof top and get explanations about the different sights from an audio guide. There where 8 different languages available.

So here a few pictures of the things we in this 2 days using all 3 bus lines:

1.Alexanderplatz & Red City Hall

The TV Tower

Neptun Fountain

2.Brandenburger Tor

3.Reichstag & Administration quarter

4.Central Station

5.passing the park & Palast Bellevue

6.Column of Victory

7.Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

8.KaDeWe Shopping Center

9.Potsdamer Platz

10.Checkpoint Charlie

11.Conserved rests of the Berlin Wall

12.Gendarmenmarkt

13. East Side Gallery

14. Olympiastadium

15. Holocaust Memorial

16. Zoo

Right next to the zoo you can drink a cocktail at the Monkey bar with a view towards the monkey cages :) - Really nice fancy place to finish the day.

We had great weather and a really great first impression of the city. It is really multicultural and open. It offers a lot of things and gives people a lot of freedom. Nobody cares how you are dressed or where you are from. I still missed a bit of a soul of the city though... for me there are a lot of grey parts instead of parks etc... I am not a big fan of log construction. But I had a great time and learned a lot about the city. Soon I am gonna tell you more about the trip ;)

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