h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I take it you are a Berliner (and not a Doughnut as in the famous JFK quote). I was in Berlin the summer after the wall came down. I would love to go back someday and see all the new and restored buildings.

This place is big and growing all the time so here are some good places to get started.

Visit the ACEs homepage where their are some good links as well as some idea of what the site is all about. http://www.h2g2.com/A214796
Also go over to the Newcomers page http://www.h2g2.com/A5752 for further advise.

If there is anything you really want to know about click on the categorisation box in the top right corner of the front page or try the search box above.

Share and enjoy as you move around, and and questions just shout.

DD

thanx for your note. i'm trying really hard to get into the approval section but i cannot find the dammed button. will you help???
the plaidman

Are you trying to get an article you have written approved?

Or are you trying to get what you have written re:berlin public transport system - today: the subway approved.

everything is in perfect order! i just used the wrong entry section. i put it onto my homepage instead of putting it into the guide's section. What a stupid bloke i am!
thanx for your help!
the plaidman

Good to hear it I thought that was propably the problem.

by the way - have you go a minute for a conversation?

Sure

so where are you from, then? and what made you visit berlin?

I'm from Northern Ireland and I was travelling across Europe in a Ford Transit bus at the time.

hey!!! i know northern ireland as well. i visited derry (or do you want me to call it londonderry?) in the year of '94. i was travelling around by bike which was big fun - especially by visiting the indipendent hostels in muff and dunfanaghy (hopefully i spelled this one right...). i really love ireland, it's a great place to be, expect the weather! but most of the people are pretty friendly, so it was a good journey!

My father is from Derry/Londonderry City or as one of the Local DJs calls it Stroke City. Which is poignant on two counts.

Yes that journey was good I have covered a fair ammount of Europe in my travels. Berlin at that time was a city of stark contrasts, the divide was still very clear and sudden.

now the situation has changed. it's difficult to see what was former west and what was the eastern part of the city. but i think this is o.k. - even since i'm not a patriot.
exept the public transport berlin is not to bad. especially during the summer this city seems to smile sometimes. later on i'm going to write an entry about the city-train which i actually love. and there are a couple of spots, for example parks and lakes which make the living here acceptable.
it's a different thing about winter.

It was good to talk but my bed is calling me to join it. Feel free to ask anything else I'll get to it tommorrow.

Good night.

good night!
the plaidman