Berlin: Crazy Nights, free sex and nudity
Walking near the memorial of the Berlin Wall, in a narrow street, stuck to what was once the frontier of a country divided in two by political motives (GDR and FRG), sounds loud music, electronics, that comes from what looks like an old abandoned factory. At the door I read the graffiti that says "Kultur Forum". There is a small garden in which "plants" are twisted metal. Sculptures in different ways in which the environment is seen groups of young people sitting, smoking, drinking, dancing to music that comes out of the old brick building. Activity in the great hall. There's a guy that plays music and a huge gap in the languishing some chairs and tables without taking (I guess it is too early). There are other rooms in which people understand living, them, the same who have created this space to breathe some freedom. Curiously, there are tourists around the world flock to the crazy nights of Berghain/PanoramaBar, one of the most famous clubs in the world. Another old abandoned factory, divine atmosphere and modern, in which the eccentricity mark the gateway. If you get the picture or the dress you wear is not suitable you have to forget to enter (classism liberal things that comes to luxury price tickets). But, at that location that is not paid entrance and dreadlocks that are trend, the night seems more real and open. At least, well it was for me.
If you get the picture or the dress you wear is not suitable you have to forget to enter (classism liberal things that comes to luxury price tickets)
A further example, the nth, a city that shatters the myth of the German grid. Berlin is free, open, probably the most authentic of the cities of "anything goes" of which I crossed in Europe. Days before landing there had read a story about a man who walked two hours through the streets of the capital with a severed head in his hands without anyone to call the Police. It seems that struck. The gruesome event is a sample, excessive and anecdotal, as I understand that in the German capital stock heads are hanging from the hands, of the open world of this great city in which it may be routine freak.
Anything can happen in a city where you walk in the park Tiergarten, road to Victory Column, commemorating the wars won the Danes, Austrians and French over a period of 20 nineteenth century, and behold naked men and women sunbathing in the middle of that beautiful garden. It is not unusual in Berlin, with the heat of summer, see naked bodies in their parks and no one is uncomfortable: or the players or spectators.
On the first floor, where there is a sex shop open, queues all this amalgam of ages with your purchased items to stimulate your pleasure
In those days we also went to visit the Beate Uhse Erotik Museum Berlin (Erotic Museum). It is the fifth museum gets more visitors in the capital. Your name, Beate Uhse, honors the first woman Germanic opened a sex shop in 1962. More than 5000 sex-related items set out in their rooms. Not just a tourist site, is a meeting place for adult couples, youth and students who walk its shelves without shame. One way to understand sexuality away from certain customs ingrained in our culture. On the first floor, where there is a sex shop open, queues all this amalgam of ages with your purchased items to stimulate your pleasure. It is the tail of a supermarket where you buy dvd, aphrodisiacs or comforters without having the feeling that this basket is part of a forbidden world.
For lovers of art in photography and eroticism, there is another inevitable stop, Museum of Photography in Berlin hosting the Fundación Helmut Newton. The German-born Australian photographer , died in 2004 in a traffic accident, is one of the great geniuses of the twentieth century. Icon of a type of erotic photography and fashion shows, sometimes ironically, the mix of luxury and sexuality as influential as a trend in the late nineteenth century. On its walls hang large canvases with some of his most representative works. A world that worships the stilettos, sports cars and women despampanantes.Son created ad hoc compositions which suggest far more than the obvious. Has your wife, Jude Newton, it decided to donate part of his work to the museum and that perhaps best sums up the great photographer when asked if he was not jealous of the women he photographed her husband. "Only once I worried, when he began photographing flowers; in particular, dead flowers ", said.
The modern and monumental Berlin
Another option known and highly recommended unless the city is to make the tour of the new Berlin. Especially the embassy district, whose modern buildings like Mexico or the Netherlands have received several architectural awards. All you do walk contemplating building modern air, designed by famous architects, and concludes at the headquarters of the CDU, led today by Angela Merkel, that simulates an ocean liner (good metaphor for our times).
What more to say of a place where I entered a coffee, I looked to my right and looked quietly reading the paper the great writer Gunter Grass reminding me that everything was possible in that place
For those who want to see the most monumental Berlin, is forced stroll along the Paseo de los Tilos (Unter the Liden). A journey that begins at the Brandenburg Gate and ends at the Museum Island, World Heritage (there wait for the famous bust of Nefertiti Egyptian, part of the spectacular collection Neues Museum). A tour too famous and accessible to provide some revealing information in this text; only recommend visiting the nearby Reichstag (German parliament) at night and lie on your dome, designed by Norman Foster, to gaze at the stars. The Brandenburg Gate itself is also under cover of darkness it a different, and with fewer people and enlightened by their powerful guns of light draws a monumental image. Also, the memorial of the Berlin Wall, where one finds as a thin layer of cement, less high than imagined and less massive than expected, could divide the world in two decades, is fixed stop. In order, el Check Point, Holocaust monument, la Alexanderplatz, Kaiser Wilhelm memorial la Iglesia, with its ruined tower yet not to forget the bombings of World War II, terraces always full of life at night ... What else to say of a place I walked into a cafe, I looked to my right and looked quietly reading the paper the great writer Gunter Grass reminding me that everything was possible in that place.
For those who want more information about the crazy nightlife of Berlin there leave this link who speaks in detail of the huge existing supply.
PD. This post is the result of two trips. No lead in the second chamber did not have photos of the lighter side of the city.
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First Travel
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Casual (or causal)- mind we are preparing another article about Berlin, for us, is a reference of possibilities, an open, flexible, "punk" wherever they are, and more surprising than it may seem… Much, much more than London or Country! 🙂
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Javier Brandoli
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Strongly agree. In Germany there is an unrealistic image. Of course Berlin is the city more open than I have crossed Europe. More than Amsterdam, whose freedom is a tourist from my point of view. In any case, I have to say you do in http://www.viajesdeprimera.com an excellent job.
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Viajes Berlin
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Let cool to know Berlin say it has great stories and amazing monuments, Sounds exciting to go to meet.
Greetings
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