Berlin (2019)

When my friend William figured out that Berlin is showing the Blue Man Group, he just wanted to have a trip to the German capital city. As a theatre fan myself, I could not say anything against a visit. Thankfully, Stage had a good offer at the time and I insteadly bought two tickets. Unfurtunately, William and I were on a budget, which is why we scheduled our visit to a weekday. We stayed in the Alper Hotel am Potsdamer Platz, a run down hotel right above a noisy night club – whereby the night club was not the problem, but the loud visitors infront of it –, which we cannot recommend, especially since there was a heat wave in Berlin and we had to try to sleep with opened windows. The show at the Bluemax Theatre on the other hand was a treat. It is a funny, very chaotic and unorthodox experience, which should not be missed when in Berlin.

The next morning, we were searching for a nice place to have a coffee and a small breakfast and found the Kranhauscafé right next to the river Spree. As we were already in the eastern part of Berlin, I showed the remains of the Spree Park to William. After a walk through the Plänterwald, whereby we surrounded the lost place theme park, we had a delightful lunch at the Klipper restaurant, which I can fully recommend.

 


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Helsinki (2019)

My first visit to the city of Helsinki was an unintentional one as we missed our flight to Ivalo after we stood a good 40 minutes on the runway in Hamburg due to the current constructions going on at the Finnish airport. We were put into the nearby Holiday Inn for the night and decided to get our diner somewhere in the city instead of the hotel’s restaurant.

A few days later, I returned intentionally to Helsinki in order to get to know the city a bit better. I booked a guided tour with Red Umbrella Tours but was not overly impressed by the tour guide. I left the group early and headed directly to the Tivoli Linnanmäki shortly thereafter.

 


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Ivalo (2019)

If it would not have been for job reasons, I would probably never visited lapland. Yet, I would have missed so much – be it the beautiful nature, the countless number of reindeer, the northernmost IPA or the hot wings at pubi.fi. Also the offroad cycling tour, I did with my boss nearby the city of Saariselkä was great. With our electic fat bikes, we first climbed a ski slope before we tried to get our way through a dried riverbed full of sharp edged rocks.

 


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