DOUG’S RETIREMENT TRAVEL BLOG

65: time to hit the road

I retired. Twice. The first time in 2022, without Leslie; the second time in 2024, with her. Maybe this time it’ll stick.

Several discreet trips; each is a category. You can select one below to see it specifically, or just walk through. They're in reverse chronological order.

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2024 September #19: Berlin Treptower Park

Another day in Treptower park, in the former East Berlin alongside the Spree river. It's huge, many-faceted. There's a Forest School and...

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Sep 28, 20241 min read

2024 September #18: Stasi in the DDR

Living in the former East Berlin, we've been diving deep into DDR history. The "stasi" was the DDR's ministry for state security, the...

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Sep 28, 20241 min read

2024 September #17: Berlin Schlachtensee

Scenes from the S-Bahn around the Ost-Kreuz station, near home, in the former East-Berlin: On Birgit’s suggestion, we took a walk around...

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Sep 28, 20241 min read

2024 September #16: Deutsch

By the way we've been spending 4 hours a day, 4 days a week in German language class. It's in the brown building in the center of the...

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Sep 28, 20241 min read

2024 September #15: Hamburg

We took a long weekend trip to Hamburg: Left Fri AM, returned to Berlin Sun PM. It's a 2-1/2 hour train trip, so we had pretty much 3...

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Sep 26, 20242 min read

2024 September #14: Berlin Treptower Park

There are many large open spaces and parks in Berlin. One such is Treptower Park, in the former East Berlin along the banks of the river...

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Sep 25, 20241 min read

2024 September #13: Berlin Schöneberg und Mitte

[I am extremely frustrated with this blogging app, this is a shitty post, bear with me…] We walked by the central trainstation - it's...

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Sep 25, 20241 min read

2024 September #12: more Friedrichshain

We ventured across the Frankfurter Alee, the major east-west boulevard near our house, and discovered another section of Friedrichshain. ...

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Sep 18, 20241 min read

2024 September #11: die Bahn

By the way, whenever we want to go anywhere outside of Friedrichshain, we take public transport. There's the U-Bahn, underground & fast,...

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Sep 18, 20241 min read

2024 September #10: Lichtenberg

Lichtenberg is a Kietz in the east. Took the S-Bahn there and walked around. Large concentration of Soviet-era tenement blocks, but...

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Sep 18, 20241 min read

2024 September #9: Neukölln

Today we set out for the Neukölln kietz - known as a diverse area with a lot of immigrants. On the way in we passed something that you...

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Sep 14, 20241 min read

2024 September #8: Berliner Mauer

One of the fascinating things that happened in Berlin in the 20th century is Die Mauer - the communists built a concrete wall through the...

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Sep 14, 20241 min read

2024 September #7: Kunst & Unterhaltung

By the way we've happened across some noteworthy stuff along the way: a movie house 'Babylon' with a wurlitzer where we saw Garbo's last...

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Sep 9, 20241 min read

2024 September #6: Tempelhof

Today (Saturday 09/07) we ventured out to Tempelhofer Feld, the huge park made from the Tempelhof airport, where the 'air bridge' landed...

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Sep 9, 20241 min read

2024 September #5: still more Friedrichshain

Another thing to know about Friedrichshain: It includes a few-block area known in the guides as a "gastro Mile" - a street on which...

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Sep 8, 20241 min read

2024 September #4: More Friedrichshain and Prenzlauer Berg

Full day two, we ventured farther afield. More Friedrichshain, plus a touch of Prenzlauer Berg. PB is the adjacent Kietz to the...

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Sep 8, 20241 min read

2024 September #3: Berlin Friedrichshain

First full day, Wed Sep 4, we cased Friedrichshein on foot: By the way, the Wohnung has an induction stove. It's amazing. After...

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Sep 7, 20241 min read

2024 September #2: Berlin!

We arrived the evening of Sep 3, checked into the AirBnB Wohnung without any trouble. The location is shown as the blue dot on the map:...

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Sep 6, 20241 min read

2024 September #1: the road to Berlin

Arrived back in SF on the Burner Express Bus 09/01, dropped off the Burning Man stuff and picked up the Berlin stuff, and headed out...

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Sep 5, 20241 min read

2024 August #4: Burning Man

Burning Man four days and five nights, was epic. "woof" as they say.. Phone/camera off most of the time; here's what sunrise was like...

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Sep 5, 20241 min read

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