Guidebook for Berlin

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Guidebook for Berlin

Entertainment & Activities

Great pizza restaurant, family-run, v welcoming and for kids a fab little kitchen bench where they can roll their own pizza dough...
Bötzowstraße 30
30 Bötzowstraße
Great pizza restaurant, family-run, v welcoming and for kids a fab little kitchen bench where they can roll their own pizza dough...
Classic Berlin "kindercafe" - a bit like "soft play" space in the UK. This is well equipped - good selection of toys and ball pit and slides - and great when quiet, but can get v busy in winter.
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Café Ballon
49 Bötzowstraße
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Classic Berlin "kindercafe" - a bit like "soft play" space in the UK. This is well equipped - good selection of toys and ball pit and slides - and great when quiet, but can get v busy in winter.
Great kindercafe - friendly, yummy food and drinks - but best of all a lovely playspace for small children in the corner. Open Tues - Sun 10am - 7pm. Good for Sat or Sun brunch with kids
Hans-Otto-Straße 6
6 Hans-Otto-Straße
Great kindercafe - friendly, yummy food and drinks - but best of all a lovely playspace for small children in the corner. Open Tues - Sun 10am - 7pm. Good for Sat or Sun brunch with kids

Sightseeing

Hufeland Str. is our local little "high street" one block from the apartment, and it's full of small independent shops and cafes - a lovely place to stroll and browse...
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Hufelandstraße
Hufelandstraße
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Hufeland Str. is our local little "high street" one block from the apartment, and it's full of small independent shops and cafes - a lovely place to stroll and browse...
Our local farmers market is here every Saturday, 9am - 2pm, 3 blocks walk away, so is a great playground and also the Weimar-era classic sculpture the Fertility Fountain (aka Bull Fountain).
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Arnswalder Platz (Berlin) station
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Our local farmers market is here every Saturday, 9am - 2pm, 3 blocks walk away, so is a great playground and also the Weimar-era classic sculpture the Fertility Fountain (aka Bull Fountain).
Biggest farmers market in Prenzlauer Berg on Saturdays, surrounding streets full of cafes and bars, also the famous Wasserturm, lovely area to visit, 10 mins walk away...
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Kollwitzplatz
1 Kollwitzstraße
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Biggest farmers market in Prenzlauer Berg on Saturdays, surrounding streets full of cafes and bars, also the famous Wasserturm, lovely area to visit, 10 mins walk away...
Walk across the Volkspark, or get the M10 tram, and you'll be transported back to the DDR walking along this classic "representative architecture" of the 1950s, originally named "Stalinallee"...
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Karl-Marx-Allee
Karl-Marx-Allee
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Walk across the Volkspark, or get the M10 tram, and you'll be transported back to the DDR walking along this classic "representative architecture" of the 1950s, originally named "Stalinallee"...
Visit the famous TV Tower, visual icon of Berlin, have cocktails at the bar at the top of it, look out over the city, experience this classic DDR architecture. Lots more shops etc. 3 tram stops away!
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Alexanderplatz
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Visit the famous TV Tower, visual icon of Berlin, have cocktails at the bar at the top of it, look out over the city, experience this classic DDR architecture. Lots more shops etc. 3 tram stops away!
Wonderful space - just go explore - ponds, fountains, woods, formal gardens, grassy chill out areas, tennis courts, Polish War Memorial, Spanish Civil War Memorial, amazing playgrounds...
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Volkspark Friedrichshain
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Wonderful space - just go explore - ponds, fountains, woods, formal gardens, grassy chill out areas, tennis courts, Polish War Memorial, Spanish Civil War Memorial, amazing playgrounds...

Essentials

Great Bakery and Cafe, German / Turkish, lovely friendly owners, open 7 days from 5am!
Bötzowstraße 31
31 Bötzowstraße
Great Bakery and Cafe, German / Turkish, lovely friendly owners, open 7 days from 5am!
Large and brilliantly stocked, classic Berlin "bio-supermarkt", ie. organic and green-sourced food products, expensive but good quality.Edit
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BIO COMPANY Greifswalder Straße
212 Greifswalder Str.
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Large and brilliantly stocked, classic Berlin "bio-supermarkt", ie. organic and green-sourced food products, expensive but good quality.Edit
Cut-price German supermarket chain, good for lo-budget
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Lidl
36-38 Rigaer Str.
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Cut-price German supermarket chain, good for lo-budget

Everything Else

Deutsche Bahn Call-a-Bike hire station here.
Hufelandstraße 7
7 Hufelandstraße
Deutsche Bahn Call-a-Bike hire station here.

Shopping

Rossman is a big German chain of chemist / drugstores, bit like Boots in the UK, if you have babies / toddlers, you can get everything you need - food, milk, nappies, etc - here. Also at Rewe.
Greifswalder Straße 208
Rossman is a big German chain of chemist / drugstores, bit like Boots in the UK, if you have babies / toddlers, you can get everything you need - food, milk, nappies, etc - here. Also at Rewe.
Chemist. In case you are in need of pharmaceutical help... also stocks all over the counter basics and kiddies stuff - but you can get this cheaper at Rewe supermarket, or Rossman
Hufelandstraße 15
15 Hufelandstraße
Chemist. In case you are in need of pharmaceutical help... also stocks all over the counter basics and kiddies stuff - but you can get this cheaper at Rewe supermarket, or Rossman

Food Scene

Great location in middle of the V park, sixties DDR plate glass building makes you feel like you're outside when you're in, fantastic brunches (and more), good prices. Busy in summer. Lovely though.
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Restaurant Schoenbrunn
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Great location in middle of the V park, sixties DDR plate glass building makes you feel like you're outside when you're in, fantastic brunches (and more), good prices. Busy in summer. Lovely though.
Delicious cakes - best in the area! - and elegantly decorated. Lunch also good. Pricier cakes than usual, but worth it.
Bötzowstraße 25
25 Bötzowstraße
Delicious cakes - best in the area! - and elegantly decorated. Lunch also good. Pricier cakes than usual, but worth it.
Lovely little Spanish / Mallorcean restaurant, plus a great deli. Delicious food and very atmospheric.
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La Mallorteca
22 Belforter Str.
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Lovely little Spanish / Mallorcean restaurant, plus a great deli. Delicious food and very atmospheric.
Christian Kahrmann is super-friendly, and he's created a lovely cafe with great homemade food, decorated with flowers and plants everywhere, and the best ice-cream in the area - kids and adults loveit
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Kahrmann´s Own
21 Bötzowstraße
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Christian Kahrmann is super-friendly, and he's created a lovely cafe with great homemade food, decorated with flowers and plants everywhere, and the best ice-cream in the area - kids and adults loveit