Now I’ve written about how you should spend your first days in Berlin, but what about your nights?
Tired?
Wanna sleep?
Oh, come on!

If you just take a look at the rich offerings for the night of different pubs, clubs and concert halls all over the city, you will instatly get the feeling that every minute spent home is wasted – and so does apparently everyone, day by day. Except for Sundays and local holidays, you’ll find people overwhelming the streets, means of local transport and late-night open shops (a.k.a. Spätkauf, or Spätie) on the way to their evening programme – should that be a concert, theatre act, show, performance or just a beer with friends.

Although I didn’t really have the chance yet to exploit the possibilities of Berlins amazing nightlife, I already have some places I would recommend: first of all, there was this open-air beer garden we ended up one night, it was on Kastanienallee, and it’s called the Prater.. it’s hard to miss it. However, the whole allee is a great place at night, with people sitting in front of pubs and restaurants on the street.

The other great place to just simply sit on the street is Hackescher Markt, right near the river.

We’ve also been to some kind of house for different cultures, where there were several concerts of arabic and african world musicians, but since I was very new to Berlin, I can’t remember where it was… and there was this jazz pub as well, where one of our friends‘ band played a week ago, but the only thing I can recall that it was in Kreuzberg somewhere.. well, I’m not that good of a guide for an exciting evening in Berlin, am I?
What I know is that their music is worth a listening, because they were really great:
http://www.myspace.com/minamazemusic

All in all, the best place for an evening in Berlin for me so far happened to be our own kitchen… I know it’s the opposite of the post’s opening line, but still. We just moved in that day, and started talking and cooking, and playing music, and the hours just flew by. Here’s a photo proof from the middle of the night somewhen:

In fact, our french girl roommate’s mother is here for the weekend and right now she is cooking something delicious in the kitchen.. oh and I can hear something about a bottle of vine they brought from home. Sorry, I have to go now!

See you later,
Gabor