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Leisure tips for Berlin

Boredom in Berlin – hardly imaginable! If you don’t want to wander through the countless museums or visit theatres and cinemas, you’ll find countless and varied leisure activities in the city.

Here we present some very different tips that we enjoyed and that are not the typical activities you do when visiting Berlin.

Leisure tips for Berlin

Escape Room Berlin
Experience Sherlock's dream in the Escape Room in Berlin

A new exciting adventure with the great master detective Sherlock Holmes lured us to the Escape Room Berlin. Was it going to be just as exciting as the other games we had played so far?

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Seifenblasen
Magical moments in the illusion theatre

In a side street of the Kurfürstendamm in the heart of Berlin is Ben Blu's illusion theatre. It was rather by chance that we became aware of the illusion show in Berlin and spent a magical evening here.

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Tasting Bar im Berlin Disgusting Food Museum
Disgusting Food Museum Berlin

One of the city's most unusual museums is located in the middle of Berlin, where everything revolves around the topic of disgust. The Disgusting Food Museum Berlin wants to show visitors the world of disgust in all its different facets. And who knows, maybe you'll find out that not everything is disgusting after all…

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Discover Berlin from a different perspective with a city tour on a special theme. The Soviet Berlin today and then.
"Soviet Berlin - Through the Red Metropolis" a city tour with Berlin Taiga

Shortly before 10 am, Holger our guide for the tour "Soviet Berlin II - Through the Red Metropolis" of Berlins Taiga was already waiting for us at the main station. With him, we should go on a discovery tour through Berlin in the next 4 hours and immerse ourselves in the time of the end…

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Live Escape Room
Big Päng - in the Live Escape Room in Berlin

A visit to the Live Escape Room in Berlin - for us a great opportunity to do something together with friends. Here you suddenly get to know your team members in a completely different way and discover unexpected skills.

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Virtuelle live Stadtführung durch die Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt in Berlin Mitte
Virtual live city tour: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt

If you can't travel and experience the city tour live, you have to look for alternatives. How about a virtual city tour of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt in Berlin?

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TXL - Flughafen Tegel
Bye Bye TXL – Bye Bye Tegel Airport

The time has come - my airport in Berlin, Tegel Airport, is closed. No 6 o'clock flight to Amsterdam or Frankfurt wakes me up in the morning anymore.

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Vood Mobil
Vegan street food from the Vood Mobil

Fancy some vegan street food? In Weddinger Nordhafenpark you can eat delicious vegan food at the Vood Mobil.

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BrewDog DogTap Berlin
BrewDog DogTap Berlin - Beer without borders

Since late summer 2019, there has been a new location for beer lovers in Berlin's Marienpark - the BrewDog DogTap Berlin opened in September.We were there shortly after the opening and not only looked around, but also tested beers.

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Escape Room - Knast 13
Escape from prison in 55 minutes 13 - Escape Room

We love the scenarios in Escape Berlin. We were there for the third time and this time we managed to break out of Escape Room Jail 13.

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Blick in Saunafloss
Pure relaxation - travelling on the Havel in a sauna raft

We were out and about for you in Berlin and tried out a dreamy place for a few relaxing hours.

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Bus 100 - quer durch die Berliner City
City tour with bus line 100

Berlin's local transport system is very well developed. You can explore the whole city by bus, S-Bahn, U-Bahn or tram. Day tickets or even tourist tickets are not that expensive and if you choose the right route, you can save on expensive bus tours offered by other tour operators.

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Museum der Illusionen
Museum of Illusions - or do you believe everything you see?

Have you ever succumbed to an illusion? When I mean here not the illusion of earning a lot of money with little work, but the optical illusion in which something appears quite different from what it really is.

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Streetfood markt
Streetfood at the KulturBrauerei

Sometimes you find an article on the internet by chance that turns out to be a really great tip. We were at the Streetfood auf Achse event at the KulturBrauerei.

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Hauptstadtflughafen Berlin Brandenburg
#BERtesten – testing the new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport

It’s the end of July 2020: After many, many years it is finally going to happen. The opening of the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport BER in Germany’s capital city in October 2020. I was part of a test run before the opening.

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Tegel Airport: The view from the visitor’s deck
Tegel Airport: The view from the visitor’s deck

It is Sunday at around lunchtime – time to go for a walk – time to go to the visitor’s deck of Tegel Airport. At Tegel Airport guests can observe aeroplanes for hours from the visitor’s deck.

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The Aquarium Berlin
The Aquarium Berlin

The Aquarium Berlin was established in 1913. It is amongst the aquariums with the most species with its many freshwater and saltwater creatures, the amphibians, reptiles and insects. A visit is well worthwhile not just for kids!

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Stand up paddle boarding on the Schlachtensee Lake in Berlin
Stand up paddle boarding on the Schlachtensee Lake in Berlin

It is Sunday and the sun is shining. We were invited to try stand up paddle boarding in Berlin on the Schlachtensee Lake. So, here we go to the Schlachtensee Lake in Grunewald. Before we started our stand up paddle boarding experience, we researched what SUP is and whom it is suitable for.

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Escape Berlin
Spinning heads and question marks in our eyes in the Escape Room Berlin

The door slams shut behind us … we stand around and stare at each other … now what? But let’s start at the beginning: We got to try a Live Escape Game in the Escape Berlin.

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Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin – THE ONE Grand Show
Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin – THE ONE Grand Show

There is a lot happening in Berlin, but the Friedrichstadt-Palast is truly unique. It combines show with artistic, song with music and breath-taking costumes with dance.

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Almost an insider tip: Stone Brewing-Berlin
Almost an insider tip: Stone Brewing-Berlin

The Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens is still an insider tip in Berlin. A brewery with a restaurant was created right in the centre of the Marienpark in Berlin. We visited it and were enthused.

Almost an insider tip: Stone Brewing-Berlin   →
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