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Trip ideas for Berlin in June 2025

Places to have a look at

  • Place to stay on a short trip: OSTEL hostel, a DDR stile hostel.

  • Badeschiff swimming pool in the river. Pre-booking necessary.

  • Spreepark, but only accessible via guided tours. But now under reconstruction, so there is not much left of the old part and now guided tours are more of the construction site.

  • Berlin Weinerei Wine bar

  • Stadtbad Neuköln: Old-looking swimming pool with FKK hours according to a YouTube video, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

  • Teufelsberg. Entrance 12 EURO

  • Berliner Unterwelten e.V. organises underground tours in Berlin

  • Freiluftkino Kruzberg at the Kunstquartier Bethanien

  • ReichsBahnAusbesserungsWerk (R.A.W.): Grafitti scene and alternative scene. Just some nice sceneray, though guided tours are possible.

  • Bus 100 offers interesting views.

  • To eat: Bürgermeister (street food) at the Oberbaumbrücke linking Friedichshain and Kreuzberg. (But there are more locations)

  • Bernburger Straße grafitti: Already processed and I think done also

  • Uraban Nation museum of contemporary art, free! (Already in other list)

Apps used

  • Mo.pla for the Deutschlandticket

  • Komoot anbd Guru Maps for navigation

  • Hardly used the BVG apps

Actual agenda

  • Monday 16 June
    • Trip to Berlin, 10 minutes or so delay in Berlin
      • Took a very early bus to the station, simply because I was ready (6:37)
      • So a very early train to Liège (6:58, so I had 1h45m to spend in Liège)
      • ICE 13 to Köln, leaving at 9:14 and arriving at 10:15.
      • Some drinks and early lunch (late breakfast) near the Dom
      • ICE 559 at 12:35 to Berlin, arrival scheduled at 17:49 but ten minutes or so late
      • To the hotel with the S-bahn and U-bahn. In retrospect, leaving at Spandau and taking S3 from there would have been a good option also.
    • Dinner in Ceylon Bay Sri Lankan restaurant on the Fuggerstraße. The quality was certainly OK, but portions are rather small.
    • Short visit to Woof
  • Tuesday 17 June
    • Walk Gipferkreux Eremphortenberg Frohnau to Alt Tegel. Very nice weather.
    • Lunch in restaurant Weil in Alt Tegel, also time for some ice cream
    • Shopping in R&Co
    • To Alt Marienburg with the metro
    • Dinner in Greek restaurant Christina
    • Quälgeist "SM am Tienstag"
  • Wednesday 18 June
    • Stayed long in Axel, time for a spa visit
    • Shopping in Boxer
    • Appointment at Tysk
    • Visit to Butcherei Lindinger
    • Lunch in Fugger Imbiss
    • Pick up shoes at R&Co
    • Giving Finn a spanking at hotel
    • To Böse Buben
    • Probably had a burger at Smash on the Wittenbergplatz?
    • To Hafen and Woof
  • Thursday 19 June
    • Visit Sachsenhausen
    • Lunch around 16h at Balli Doner near McHurt
    • Shopping at McHurt
    • To the Butcherei but they weren't really willing to sell.
    • Dinner Da Lucia on the Fuggerstraße and Welserstraße
    • Short visit to Woof
  • Friday 20 June
    • Visit to Potsdam
    • Visit to the Nikolaikirche tower
    • Dinner at the Korean restaurant Seoul Garden
    • Gardens of the Sanssouci Palace
    • Walk around Heiliger See with some time for FKK
    • Dinner at Faustus Schnitzelhaus on Wittenbergplatz
    • Visit to Hafen and Woof
  • Saturday 21 June
    • Walk from Olympiastadin to Grunewald
    • FKK at Teufelssee
    • Lunch at Grunewalturm
    • Cruising areas
    • Early dinner at MOLA, Wittenbergplatz (Pasta and pizza)
    • Visit to Bose Buben until the very early hours…
  • Sunday 22 June - Very hot weather
    • Short night
    • Visit to Mauerpark. Also ate a Turinger Bratwurst there
    • Had a drink at the Pinocchio on the way back
    • Cool down in the hotel and catch up on sleep
    • Walk to Charlottenburg, eat and drink in BRLO
  • Monday 23 June - Much cooler, but very windy
    • Walk Tegeler Fliess from Waidmanslust to Blankenburg
    • Currywurst at Original Berliner Currywurst on Wittenbergplatz
    • Refresh in the hotel
    • Buy a vest at Butcherei Lindinger
    • To the Kottbusser Tor area
      • Beer in the Biererei
      • Dinner Adana Grillhaus at the Görlitzer strasse station
      • Naked sex Club Culture House
  • Tuesday 24 June: Overcast, almost stormy wind
    • Walk from Friedrichshagen: Loop along Erpe and M”uggelsee, with some time for FKK but too much wind to go into the water.
    • Currywurst at Witty’s on Wittenbergplatz
    • Have a drink at Prinzknecht
    • Another visit to a few shops on Motzstrasse
    • Dinner at Elefant. Highly recommended.
    • Prinzknecht and Woof
  • Wednesday 25 June
    • Walk along Gedächtniskirche and Bikini Mall
    • Snack on Wittenbergplatz (hamburger at Smash by Hauptstardtburger)
    • To the station and home. The train from Berlin to Köln had a delay of 26 minutes, and the next one from Berlin had a delay of 35 minutes so I would have missed my connection with that train.
      • ICE 858 at 13:45 to Köln, scheduled to arrive at 18:12, but only arrived at 18:38
      • Dinner at the train station (Burger King)
      • ICE 10 at 19:42 to Köln, on time in Liège (20:43)
      • IC train to Leuven at 21:02, and bus 41 back home

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