Tag: berlin
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UEFA Champions League Final 2015, Berlin
This June, we were the lucky guests of IT again for the UEFA Champions League Final 2015 which was held in Berlin, Germany. Beside Sue and IT, we were joined by MW(HK) and MI(CH). We arrived at the Olympiastadion around dusk after much traffic congestion, despite being transported in a VIP bus provided by the…
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My ic! berlin
On my last day in Berlin, while wandering in Mitte, it came to me that my eyeglass frame by ic! berlin must somehow be related to this city. After googling the brand on the street, I discovered that their original store was located at Max-Beer-Straße, which is only two blocks from where I was. So…
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Berlin: Even more KaDeWe sausages
8 (107) KaDeWe’s delicatessen is rumored to sell more than 1000 types of sausages. To test the rumor, I started counting the number of price tags in each display case in my last post. Click here to see the earlier post (and more sausages… ). The fun continues here … the bracketed number is the…
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Berlin: KaDeWe’s 1000 sausages
12 (12) Rumors has it that KaDeWe’s delicatessen on the sixth floor carries more than 1000 types of sausages. I did an estimate to test the rumor. Here is the evidence, presented in two posts. I have counted the number of price tags and put the number under each picture, along with the running total.…
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Berlin: KaDeWe – Gourmet Bouillabaisse
On my last day in Berlin, it was raining and the wind harsh. Stay indoors was the advice offered by the hotel concierge. KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens) is the second largest department store in Europe, after Harrods in London. But the food hall on the sixth floor, in my opinion, is bigger and better than…
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Berlin: private cabaret in a museum
On the last evening of the meeting, the company organized a gala dinner at the Museum of Communications (Museum für Kommunikation Berlin at Leipziger Straße 16). The museum is beautiful but the content is really suitable for family with children. We had the whole museum to ourselves. We roamed leisurely champagne in hand, explored and…