I will be arriving a day early in Berlin for my RS tour. It looks like most of the things on the RS Berlin Walk I will be doing on the tour and the following day (less jet leg) I will be going to museum island. Does anyone have any recommendations for things to do when you first arrive?
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Frankfurt, Germany
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Visit the Olympic Stadium or Track 17. Will you be going to Sachsenhausen or Ravensbrück Concentration Camp? What about Wannsee Villa?
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Berlin
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WOZ, it would help to post some interests.
Berin has two cities and Potsdamer Platz with Brandenburger Tor and Reichstag somehow in tne middle. So you won't explore everything by a walking tour. Therefore I recommend a first overview of the city by using public buses instead of HoHo:
For a short city trip you can choose public bus 100 - and with a 24h ticket you can also hop on and off.
Also public buses 300 and 200 allow different interesting tours which partly overlap.
A combination of these from Alexanderplatz to Zoo with 100, then Zoo to Potsdamer Platz with 200 and from there with 300 to Warschauer Straße and S-Bahn 3, 5, 7 or 9 back to Alexanderplatz you will have a nice round trip and you will really see a lot of Berlin's city.
Further good and seasonal actual ideas what you can do you will also find in the blog of visitberlin.de.
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Philadelphia, PA
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If its not already sold out, I would book tickets to tour the Reichstag Dome. And then afterwards you could walk through the Tiergarten.
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Westland, MI
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If you are unable to book the Reichstag Dome (you can also try just visiting the roof) and have an interest in art you might want to visit the Gemaldegalerie Museum which concentrates on European painting. As an art historian I would say it's a "must see". The new Kathe Kollwitz Museum in Charlottenburg has a good display on one floor while another is being completed. It's a longer trip if you are staying in Prenzlauer Berg which is where our tour lodged.
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We very much enjoyed the Museum Barberini In Pottsdam https://www.museum-barberini.de/en/. It's and easy day trip if you enjoy art.