dwellerINTHEdark
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Going to Budapest, Krakow, Prague, Berlin and Amsterdam in 9 days. Need recommendations for food, brews and activities if y'all don't mind!
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dwellerINTHEdark
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rms
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I'd cut like 2 cities out of that list man you're too busy. Amsterdam, Berlin and Krakow would be best imo.
Krakow is a perfect hub and City for the Traveller and I won't ruin it for you with suggestions. Hope you find good people and good times like I did, the brews and food are dirt cheap.
Krakow is a perfect hub and City for the Traveller and I won't ruin it for you with suggestions. Hope you find good people and good times like I did, the brews and food are dirt cheap.
Onder
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That's a lot of cities. You could spend nine days in only one of Prague, Pest, or Berlin and be fine tbh. Amsterdam too if you were a weed smoker.
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Watching my new TV. Anyone here have a Sceptre TV who can tell me in the stand is supposed to let the TV move around?
Satanstoenail
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I loved German food when I was there. All the different sausages, Leberkäse, Schweinshaxn, Obatzder, bretzels and currywurst are all awesome.
Yeah as others said, that'll be too many cities for that amount of time. I'd go Prague, Berlin and Amsterdam out of those, but I dunno much about Krakow.
The Ozzman
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Better get all that good traditional cuisine before it's replaced by Muslim cuisine!
rms
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I forgot about how damn popular this pork knuckle was. i went around the baltic and I swear every damn city marketed it
very, very similar to Prague. But better in all ways but beer prices. I can't stress avoiding summer Prague more unless you're 18 and on the verge of joining a frat
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Satanstoenail
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viewerfromnihil
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Jealous! Berlin is without question my favorite city and I can't wait until the next time I'm there.
The first thing I always do when I arrive in Berlin is buy a Berliner Kindl from a Spätkauf and dig into some Currywurst from a good Imbiss. My favorite Currywurst Imbiss is unfortunately out of business. There's a good Imbiss right beside the Currywurst Museum (yes, a Currywurst Museum) which has spicy curry ketchup that's actually spicy. Konnopke's in Kreuzberg would be a good idea to visit too because it's supposed to be one of the oldest in Berlin.
To be honest, I can't really give recommendations to German food places in Berlin because 1) I never ate traditional German food while living in Berlin 2) Berlin isn't the city for that. It's joked quite often that Berlin, despite being the capital of Germany, isn't really German. It's a very international city and you'll probably find yourself on the U-Bahn with 6 different languages being spoken in the train car without one of them being German. There's quite a few Sudanese Restaurants in Kreuzberg that I can't recommend enough, and there's a great Ethiopian place right by where I used to live in Neukölln.
As for other things to do, if you're there on a Saturday, visit Mauerpark. There's a big flea market on Saturdays with great food and they have a big open air karoke. If you like theater, then take advantage of it in Berlin. It's very affordable and some of the best in the world. Berliner Ensemble is my favorite. It was founded by Bertolt Brecht and lives up to the legacy. I've probably seen six or seven pieces there. Unfortunately, it's out of season when you'll be there, but maybe you'll get lucky and they'll play an off-season show. I would also recommend you ride on the U1. Most of it is above ground and some of the views are gorgeous. Something else cheap and fun would be to buy yourself a couple of Berliner Kindls and stroll down East Side Gallery, where the wall is still standing and is covered in art. On that point, another highlight of Berlin is the street art and graffiti. Some people hate it and see it as destroying the city, but I love it, and street art/graffiti actually began in Europe in Kreuzberg after being brought there by Americans in the sixties from Philly, so Berlin is the place to appreciate it. I should also note that street art and graffiti in Germany doesn't have the gang and violence connotations that it does in the US. Look up Berlin Kidz on Youtube if you're interested.
I'll contradict the others and say that those aren't too many cities for fourteen days. You won't have time to really soak in every individual city, but you can still enjoy yourself and see lots of gorgeous sights. On Berlin, just see my response above. I just got back from Budapest, actually. I was only there for 2 days, so I can't give tons of recs, but here's what I got. You've got to feast on some traditional hungarian food. I'd recommend Rákóczi. The food is wonderful and because it's not in a touristy spot and looks a bit grungy (as does a lot of Budapest), it's mostly hungarians who eat there, which is always a good sign. And I paid less than 6 euros for a delicious beef stew with dumplings and a beer. If you're into clubbing, Lärm is the place you want to go. They've got 5 or so rooms with different DJs and types of music, so you've got a nice choice between bar dancing vibe or something more on the club drug music. You also absolutely HAVE to go to a spa. Skip out on the big touristy places. I'd recommend you go to either Rudas or Veli Bej. They're both 500 year-old traditional Turkish spas. Rudas is the prettier of the two, but you've gotta check whether or not it's a women or men only day (it used to be a bit notorious in the homosexual aspect, but there was a big controversy related to that a couple years back and the authorities have crack down on it. For context, a gay couple I had dinner with in Vienna recommended it to me knowing that I'm hetero). I had intended to go to Rudas, but I ended up going to the spa with a french girl I hooked up with the night before, so we went to Veli Bej, which is mixed sex. There's no better hangover cure than a few hours in the spa.
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Having one of those lame nights where I'm definitely not sleeping for like two more hours. Fuckin sucks. Gonna eat a peach, I got me some peaches today. Peaches are fuckin great. Took years to get over them being fuzzy though.
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The Ozzman
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Millions of peaches
Peaches for me
Millions of peaches
Peaches for free
Peaches for me
Millions of peaches
Peaches for free
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I played one of my classes some Sacramentum and Darkthtrone today. Of the former I also added “this album art is better than anything any of you will ever achieve in your lives!” Hahaha.
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You're probably going to get sued for that, first for attacking your students' self-esteem and self-worth, second for subjecting them to a Sacramentum album.
