Padraig Breathnach wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> >At this stage, I am looking for suggestions about where we should stay
> >-- not necessarily a particular hotel, but what part of the city...
>
> Thanks to those who have replied (and I would still welcome
> suggestions).
>
> My researches, if you can count my unstructured scratching about as
> research, suggest to me that the main zones to consider are:
> Alexanderplatz, Potsdamer Platz/Mitte, and the Ku'damm area.
>
> I am aware that Berlin was virtually destroyed in WW2, and that it is
> now largely a city of modern architecture. Now, I am well able to
> enjoy modern architecture, but I have a particular concern: sometimes
> I feel that it lacks a human scale, and can alienate me. I have formed
> a suspicion that such might be the case around Alexanderplatz and
> Potsdamer Platz. Is this a mistaken impression?
I stayed near Potsdamer Platz, and I did find it a little uninteresting.
The Etap hotel is good though, and cheap!
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