Some of my classmates have children and they ask each other where to go or what to do? Of course you can say: “Google will help you”, but not everyone can find necessary information in german in the internet. So i decided to share my experience.

 

1. Deutsches Technikmuseum (Музей Техники в Берлине) U-Bahn Gleisdreieck, Trebbiner Straße 9, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Tip: Tickets are valid for same-day visits to the German Museum of Technology, the road traffic division „Man on the move“ and a new exhibition „The Network“ (from 9. September 2015) in the Ladestrasse area and the Science Center Spectrum.

ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN:

Dienstag bis Freitag:  9.00 – 17.30 Uhr

Samstag / Sonntag: 10.00 – 18.00 Uhr

Montag: geschlossen

2. Legoland am Potsdamer Platz (Леголанд на Потсдамской площади). Potsdamer Straße 4, 10785 Berlin. There is a real 4D cinema and you could experience gusts of wind, rain, lightning and even snow.

Tip: LEGOLAND + SEA LIFE Berlin – 26 Euro instead of 36,45 Euro. And buy your tickets online you will save money and time.

3. Naturkundemuseum (музей Естествознания) Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin.

Öffnungszeiten:

Di – Fr: 09.30 – 18.00 Uhr

Sa, So, & Feiertage: 10.00 – 18.00 Uhr

Mo: geschlossen

Tip: Kinder (bis 6 Jahre): frei. You can buy tickets online.

4. AquaDom (Берлинский аквадом) Spandauer Straße 3, 10178 Berlin.

Öffnungszeiten:

Täglich: 10:00 -19:00 Uhr

Einlass bis 18:00 Uhr

Tip: Buy tickets online!

ab 10,70 Euro pro Erwachsener (statt 17,95 € Kassenpreis),

ab 8,70 Euro pro Kind (statt 14,50 € Kassenpreis)

Kinder unter 3 Jahren haben kostenfreien Eintritt.

5. Zoologischer Garten (Берлинский Зоопарк) Hardenbergplatz 8, 10787 Berlin.

Tip: if to buy Zoo+Aquarium you could save 9 Euro.

                                                                    ZOO           ZOO & AQUARIUM

Erwachsene                                               14,50 €           20,00 €

Kinder (4 bis einschließlich 15 Jahre)         7,50 €           10,00 €

6. Ritter Sport (магазин шоколада Ritter Sport) Französische Straße 24. You can create you own chocolate by adding different ingredients. There is a special ChocoWorkshop which you can book for some occasions like birthday or first school day!

And everywhere you can practice your german. New life situations – new opportunities for learning!

First time I understood that I must start speaking at the A2.1 level, but my vocabulary was so poor that it was very very difficult to build even simple everyday sentences. We all know: my name is…, I live there…, I want smth… and so on, but unfortunately, we are not 3 years old babies! And in everyday life, we often use conditional clauses (if, when etc). At the A2.1 I was really far from the necessary grammar, and I was like a dog which can listen and understand all, but can say nothing. This period was very frustrating and I felt like it would last forever and I would never be able to communicate in german.

But miracles happen! and after two months I started to talk. Not all of us have german friends or someone from the family, who can be enough patient to sit and listen to us. My husband is german, but if you think that I talk german at home – you are wrong. I found one solution for this problem: Konversationsklub. Unfortunately, I decided to try it only when I was at the B1.1 and I feel sorry that I have not done it earlier.

Of course, if you come somewhere from US or Europe or Asia, it is easier to find friends with the same language as you. We are all adults with education and self-esteem, so we will not catch germans on the streets and try to talk with them. :)

„Speaking“ is our common problem at the middle level, so let’s solve it together. My first lesson at Konversationsklub was full of fun, we explained each other how will be “Guten Tag” in our mother languages. We played different games and at the end we tried to reorder parts of one story, read it and explained. The most important that you have to talk there and you don’t have a choice, there is no opportunity to stay silent and it is cool. I advise it for all who have problems with speaking – ask in the office about these lessons and as sooner you start as better it will be for you.

If you are visiting Berlin, I would suggest you to pick a day and visit Potsdam. It is in zone C of Berlin and you can easily take the S-Bahn to reach the place. It is a very beautiful, peaceful and historic area with a lot of stories and heritage. You can go on a free tour with a guide who tells you a lot of interesting historical facts. The area has a small center with a shopping street filled with shops and cafes. There is a huge park with a nice lake, which is a great place for pick nick, or running. On the picture you can see the summer palace, which is not that attractive during the winter, since the garden is empty. But as far as I heard during the summer everything is green and beautiful.

If you are looking for beautiful and old objects, you should visit the antique market next to Tiergarten. It is a pretty big market with a huge variety of old goodies: plates, furniture, toys, CDs, accessories etc. You can find pretty much everything. My favorite was a gorgeous telephone. It looked like the ones that you normally see in movies that play during the war times. Unfortunately, the battery of my phone died when I wanted to take a picture, so I could not capture it. But I attached an image from Google maps, so you can find it easily :) The address is Str. des 17. Juni 110 – 114, 10589 Berlin.

I am a lucky one to live very close to the beautiful Charlottenburg Schloss. This palace is the biggest palace in Berlin, and located in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. It was built in the 17t century for Sophie Charlotte, the wife of Friedrich III. During the Second World War it was badly damaged, but they managed to recover its old state. Currently there are some constructions happening on the outside. During the Christmas period there is an amazing Christmas market in front of the palace. It is pretty big and very traditional. This is a very nice palace to visit, if you are in Berlin.

Looking for a nice place to have breakfast, brunch or just simply some sweet to take away? You can have it all in Thoben :)  It is a bakery chain here in Berlin and its surroundings. It is very cheap and yummy. You have a great selection of pastries, sandwiches, bread etc. I just have one around the corner from my house, and well I am a regular customer there :) Probably, I should get a loyalty card haha Today I took the delicious Käsekuchen and an Apple cake. Guten Appetit!

Last Thursday I felt very hungry after work, and we decided with a college that we would visit Markthalle 9. Every Thursday you can get amazing street food there – all home made! It is quite big and normally packed. It is quite difficult to get a spot to sit, but not impossible ;) On Sundays the market welcomes its visitors for brunch during the whole morning and early afternoon. I would highly recommend this great pace to everyone, I had such a nice dinner – I was rolling afterwards :)  It is about 5 minutes walk from U1 Schlesisches tor. It is a covered market, so bad weather condition is no excuse not to visit Markthalle 9.

Yesterday we had an amazing weather in Berlin! During my lunch break I sat in front of the riverbank on some benches behind the office of Universal Music. They have a very nice cafeteria, and plenty of sitting places facing the sun. It is absolutely wind free, the perfect place to sunbath. If you are around the Warschauer Strasse and keen on a coffee, definitely visit the cafeteria of Universal Music and check out its terrace. :)

I am working for an international hotel marketing company here in Berlin, called Design Hotels ™. The copany has more than 300 hotels in its portfolio offering them marketing and other consultancy activities. Its headquarters are here in Berlin, in Mitte. My company participated in this year’s ITB – as they do every year. During the trade show the participating companies build up a stand. On the picture you can see the stand of Design Hotels ™. It was very cool and stylish, as you can see. They launched their new brand campaign, called Original Experiences. Have a sneak peek on the following link, if you are interested: https://www.designhotels.com/original-experiences

Between the 9^th and the 13^th of March the world’s biggest international travel trade fare took place at Messe Berlin. (You can see Messe Berlin on the picture from the outside.) The building itself has around 26 exhibition halls, and all were reserved for ITB. Hotels, hotel chains, airplane companies, software companies etc. participated in the 5-day fare. I participated with my company at the fare, and it was an amazing experience. It is organized every year here in Berlin. You can find everybody important from the hospitality industry. If you have the chance and you want to get to know fabulous travel destinations, visit the fare next year. Make sure that you get a map before, because the building is huge, you can easily get confused :)