Berlin advice

If you're feeling brave and not too English then Liquidrom sauna on Möckernstraße 10 10963 Berlin, was really nice, modern and smart. Their website auto-opens with some annoying hippy whale music so I've not linked to it, but you'll find it easily enough. They do an 'Aufguss' where you have a sauna-meister who comes along and waves towels around and dips you in honey and salt. This sounds utterly bonkers, and indeed it is, but it's all part of the experience.

It's a short walk south from Brandenburger Tor, Potsdammer platz and Checkpoint Charlie. You'd better be cool with getting your cock out though.

I've probably mentioned it several times up thread but I still daydream about the scran in this place

http://www.austria-berlin.de

If you're feeling brave and not too English then Liquidrom sauna on Möckernstraße 10
10963 Berlin, was really nice, modern and smart. Their website auto-opens with some annoying hippy whale music so I've not linked to it, but you'll find it easily enough. They do an 'Aufguss' where you have a sauna-meister who comes along and waves towels around and dips you in honey and salt. This sounds utterly bonkers, and indeed it is, but it's all part of the experience.

It's a short walk south from Brandenburger Tor, Potsdammer platz and Checkpoint Charlie. You'd better be cool with getting your cock out though.

I've been to Liquidrom - really nice. Although take cash as the bloke on reception didn't understand the difference between debit cards and credit cards. That or my German was wrong.

Oh and on the Aufguss don't get the sequence wrong as the big eared twat makes tries to make you look a knob. It's not my fault he had a stupid accent and didn't speak 'Hoch Deutsch'.

Despite all this I really liked it.

How did you get the sequence wrong? So far as I could tell there was a timetable on the wall directly outside the sauna room, go in, sit down, wait for the dude. Dude arrives, waves towels around, gives out some stuff to rub on yourself.

I can picture you now, turgid of dong, complaining "Ere Sunshine, this ain't Honig, this is Salz"

Well, I know where to avoid when I've got a cold, those crazy Germans.

If you're feeling brave and not too English then Liquidrom sauna on Möckernstraße 10 10963 Berlin, was really nice, modern and smart. Their website auto-opens with some annoying hippy whale music so I've not linked to it, but you'll find it easily enough. They do an 'Aufguss' where you have a sauna-meister who comes along and waves towels around and dips you in honey and salt. This sounds utterly bonkers, and indeed it is, but it's all part of the experience.

It's a short walk south from Brandenburger Tor, Potsdammer platz and Checkpoint Charlie. You'd better be cool with getting your cock out though.

Forum trip?

^^^^^ Thanks Alkali, I'm bloody freezin', Liquidrom sounds the perfect remedy, repped

http://uk.weather.com/weather/10day-Berlin-GMXX0007

I'm off to Berlin on Friday for CTM Festival. Not liking the look of that forecast, need a dose of htfu.

https://www.lfgss.com/thread118853.html

https://www.lfgss.com/thread118853.html

Me and Him are thinking of riding from Hook of Holland to Berlin this summer. Given that the ICE trains back to NL don't take bikes we'll probably fly back. Any suggestions on friendly bike shops in Berlin that are likely to give us a couple of cardboard bike boxes so we can pack our bikes for the flight?

Are you starting in England and taking a ferry to Hook of Holland?

If so, and you are planning on going back to England, you can take a bike on the night train to Paris, then jump on the Eurostar - the ticket for the whole journey could be bought from Rail Europe though you'd need to pay extra to Eurostar to take a fully assembled bike on the train...

If you live in Hook of Holland then ignore everything I just said...

Ooh, that could be good. Love a sleeper train. Will investigate!

Still have not booked a hotel.
Is Alexanderplatz an alright area to stay in?

Its pretty much the center for standard tourism/business stuff.
If thats what your looking for, good links for getting places if its not.

depends on what you want. it's kinda like the Piccadilly circus of berlin.
central, well located to transport. can walk anywhere touristy.
hackescher markt is also central and more shopping - oxford circus-y of berlin maybe...

Cheers, yeah going full on touristy.

Does anyone know any good places in Berlin to watch televised cycling? something akin to LMNH for example?

Anyone know a good physio/sports massage place in Berlin?

Does anyone know any good places in Berlin to watch televised cycling? something akin to LMNH for example?

maybe here: http://www.keirinberlin.de/

http://www.punterlink.co.uk/escort/escort_directory/europe_cities/berlin_escorts.php

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maybe here: http://www.keirinberlin.de/

Cheers - I´ll have a look!

Right, I appreciate that I´m not the first English person with a poor grasp of German to have the deluded idea of working in Berlin, but does anyone have any suggestions for work? I´d be happy to do anything unskilled really (my qualifications in England are irrelevant without fluent German...) and my main aim currently is to learn better German, so anything to stay here is welcome!

As I've said before, if you have the right skills ...

https://www.lfgss.com/post2437790.html

Even unskilled will be hard to come by (and not advisable), especially if they discover that you're overqualified. I guess you could try to find work in a bar or something like that, if that's what you want.

A friend of mine (Italian) lived in Berlin for some years and worked for Easyjet in a call centre dealing with customer enquiries in Italian. She said it was the only job she could get.

I'd recommend attending courses at the Goethe Institute in London first before you make a move. It'll give you more confidence and a feel for German. Their courses are supposed to be very good (although I've obviously never done one there).

Cheers - I´ll have a look!

Right, I appreciate that I´m not the first English person with a poor grasp of German to have the deluded idea of working in Berlin, but does anyone have any suggestions for work? I´d be happy to do anything unskilled really (my qualifications in England are irrelevant without fluent German...) and my main aim currently is to learn better German, so anything to stay here is welcome!

Look round the bars in Neukölln, there are plenty there run and patronised by people whose German is probably as good as yours. Also look in Exberliner magazine, it's an English-language magazine in Berlin, with a jobs section in the back.

Germans are patronising enough already, why would you go out of your way to get more of that?