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Local Travel Guide Series (DK Eyewitness)
Berlin Like a Local: By the people who call it home
Experience the real Berlin!
Discover the heart of Berlin on your next visit. Find the best spots, must-sees and restaurants off the beaten path. This local guide to Berlin encapsulates all this German city’s hidden gems — from vintage shopping and street art to flea markets in Kreuzberg and secret speakeasies.
This travel guide to Berlin includes:
• Two-color, bold, modern design with contemporary illustrations throughout
• Narrative style throughout, making the local, personal voice central to every entry
• Structured by six themes and subsequent sub-themes, rather than areas, to echo how people are traveling, rather than where. Themes include Eat, Drink, Shop and more!
• Each entry includes its unique address so readers can pinpoint precisely where they are heading
• Each theme ends with a tour spread, dedicated to a specific interest or experience. For example, “An Arab Foodie Tour through Neukölln” and “A Record Store Trail through Kreuzkölln”
• Created keeping in mind readers traveling in a post-Covid world
Home to legendary street food, idyllic swimming lakes and a clubbing scene like no other,
this vibrant city is endlessly enticing. But it’s not all about the Reichstag and the East Side
Gallery. Beyond the well-trodden sights there’s a secret side of the city — and who better
to guide you to it than the locals?
Linger over a drink at the city’s oldest beer garden, ponder avant-garde art in Mitte’s underground galleries or dance the night away, this Berlin guidebook will help you find all the local’s favorite hangout spots and hidden haunts.
Discover the heart of Berlin on your next visit. Find the best spots, must-sees and restaurants off the beaten path. This local guide to Berlin encapsulates all this German city’s hidden gems — from vintage shopping and street art to flea markets in Kreuzberg and secret speakeasies.
This travel guide to Berlin includes:
• Two-color, bold, modern design with contemporary illustrations throughout
• Narrative style throughout, making the local, personal voice central to every entry
• Structured by six themes and subsequent sub-themes, rather than areas, to echo how people are traveling, rather than where. Themes include Eat, Drink, Shop and more!
• Each entry includes its unique address so readers can pinpoint precisely where they are heading
• Each theme ends with a tour spread, dedicated to a specific interest or experience. For example, “An Arab Foodie Tour through Neukölln” and “A Record Store Trail through Kreuzkölln”
• Created keeping in mind readers traveling in a post-Covid world
Home to legendary street food, idyllic swimming lakes and a clubbing scene like no other,
this vibrant city is endlessly enticing. But it’s not all about the Reichstag and the East Side
Gallery. Beyond the well-trodden sights there’s a secret side of the city — and who better
to guide you to it than the locals?
Linger over a drink at the city’s oldest beer garden, ponder avant-garde art in Mitte’s underground galleries or dance the night away, this Berlin guidebook will help you find all the local’s favorite hangout spots and hidden haunts.
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192 pages, Hardcover
Published February 8, 2022
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March 31, 2025
This was fine, I guess, but I got more out of google and talking to actual locals.
October 23, 2022
Out of quite a decent range of these novel travel guides I decided to pick the Berlin one, to see if it brought back any memories or taught me anything new. What was new was the wokeness of this book, where our first concern is eating sustainably, because let's face it we didn't fly here just for a weekend away for nothing. Here's a bonus map to a Curry Mile-styled three-mile strip, offering the least German cuisine in Berlin, because we're all in favour of all of Merkel's failed open-door immigration experiments. Oh, and don't even open these pages until you know what a "third-wave coffee shop" is. I mean, ignore me and my ignorance of what third wave feminism is – I had no idea two whole waves of coffee shops had become passe. Nor even that the bloody things came in waves.
This is a travel guide with added tossery, and there's no denying it. Photos of what you might see? No, we're monochrome. Full-on guides to anything and everything in snappy, succinct manner, cramming the choice allowed by one of the world's biggest cities between two over-stuffed covers? No, we're all about 200 words a page at most.
But "rein it in", I hear you cry. "This is a book about Berlin and all its uber-acceptance, and you're showing none of that." Well slap me with a Currywurst and a can of Grune, isn't this a travel guide? I love the idea of a travel guide from the POV of the people who live there – or I did. This is so far removed from the travel guide as a book can get, looking at what the locals know about the place that has naff all bearing on what the tourist wants. "Is that there Holocaust Museum worth it, and is Checkpoint Charlie free, or were those chunks of the Wall ever real (answer = no)?" "Sod that", the authors cry, "but here's the street market where us locals buy our lava lamps."
The fact is you're two thirds of the way through this before you're invited to the Pergamon (which ranks after a computer games museum and some waffle about Syrian refugees – oh and the standard quibbles about getting into Berghain that do nothing except prove the chips on the creators' shoulders). All told, this tells you NAFF ALL about what it is to be a tourist in Berlin. This is, to repeat, NOT a travel book. It's a list of some things Berliners might think us travellers will want to know about, because it's what Berliners want to know about (except only one of the three writers are German, and she isn't a Berlinerin, either). So it tells us nothing about getting from A-B, nor what those letters will even represent.
There is a wonderful concept here – the real, nitty-gritty, insider feel, where The Native eats breakfast, lunch and dinner, has its third-wave coffee (FFS) and goes clubbing. But this still failed. It had none of the bearing of a friendly airbnb-er advising you to their favourite haunts. It was restrictive, proscriptive and didn't even tell you how to get tickets to Union games. I googled a whole ONE of the eateries mentioned, and it had gone under since this was published.
None of the basics were covered, whatsoever. It gets one star, and that's because it told me where to go for Spreewald Gurken, because I still am a character in "Good Bye, Lenin!" and that and my Mocca Fix Gold are my mannas from heaven.
W*nkery abounds.
This is a travel guide with added tossery, and there's no denying it. Photos of what you might see? No, we're monochrome. Full-on guides to anything and everything in snappy, succinct manner, cramming the choice allowed by one of the world's biggest cities between two over-stuffed covers? No, we're all about 200 words a page at most.
But "rein it in", I hear you cry. "This is a book about Berlin and all its uber-acceptance, and you're showing none of that." Well slap me with a Currywurst and a can of Grune, isn't this a travel guide? I love the idea of a travel guide from the POV of the people who live there – or I did. This is so far removed from the travel guide as a book can get, looking at what the locals know about the place that has naff all bearing on what the tourist wants. "Is that there Holocaust Museum worth it, and is Checkpoint Charlie free, or were those chunks of the Wall ever real (answer = no)?" "Sod that", the authors cry, "but here's the street market where us locals buy our lava lamps."
The fact is you're two thirds of the way through this before you're invited to the Pergamon (which ranks after a computer games museum and some waffle about Syrian refugees – oh and the standard quibbles about getting into Berghain that do nothing except prove the chips on the creators' shoulders). All told, this tells you NAFF ALL about what it is to be a tourist in Berlin. This is, to repeat, NOT a travel book. It's a list of some things Berliners might think us travellers will want to know about, because it's what Berliners want to know about (except only one of the three writers are German, and she isn't a Berlinerin, either). So it tells us nothing about getting from A-B, nor what those letters will even represent.
There is a wonderful concept here – the real, nitty-gritty, insider feel, where The Native eats breakfast, lunch and dinner, has its third-wave coffee (FFS) and goes clubbing. But this still failed. It had none of the bearing of a friendly airbnb-er advising you to their favourite haunts. It was restrictive, proscriptive and didn't even tell you how to get tickets to Union games. I googled a whole ONE of the eateries mentioned, and it had gone under since this was published.
None of the basics were covered, whatsoever. It gets one star, and that's because it told me where to go for Spreewald Gurken, because I still am a character in "Good Bye, Lenin!" and that and my Mocca Fix Gold are my mannas from heaven.
W*nkery abounds.
October 18, 2022
I love Berlin and visited this town more than once is an ever changing place
This an excellent guide that show me another way to visit this town and follow less known paths.
Lovely illustrations and easy to follow hints.I want to visit Berlin soon and will surely use this guide.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine
This an excellent guide that show me another way to visit this town and follow less known paths.
Lovely illustrations and easy to follow hints.I want to visit Berlin soon and will surely use this guide.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine
May 2, 2022
Full of really great insights into places that aren't in the average guidebook, I found it really useful for my trip
June 23, 2024
Terrific resource
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