ÐÔÊÓ½ç

Autumn has finally arrived! Okay, we admit that not all of us are happy about this. But it is always a good reason to get warm and comfortable on the couch - or by a fireside like ours. 

But before we start, we would like to take a moment for a special announcement. From 01 until 07 October will participate in , the first live event in Europe dealing with this exquisite delicacy. We will offer a of corresponding duck courses (of course) and Sake as well as included aperitif, water, coffee and digestive. All of this matches the warm and cozy atmosphere of your with its pittoresque fire place perfectly. Tickets are limited – but you know where to book your table now (+49 (0) 30 695 396 87 80).

Especially when the weather does not invite us for long walks through the city anymore, the question arises how to best get from A to B in ÐÔÊÓ½ç. We would like to show you today, that there are many beautiful reasons to answer this question with an underground train ride. Some of the stations can convince art lovers to get off the train earlier to look around a bit. 

But we will not start boasting about the latest opening of underground train station Museumsinsel - you will have heard or anyway. Should you soon visit one of the museums here, it is still worth a visit with its over 6000 “stars“ iluminating the blue background of line U5. 

Our journey begins farther west in the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.

With these beautiful tiles architect Rainer Rümmler portrayed the lilies of former village Wilmersdorf´s coat of arms in an abstract manner in 1978.

We also like the station Kurfürstenstraße. Opened in 1926 this one is a bit older already, which you can recognise quickly, because unfortunately it is not yet fully accessible. (A little hint for the interested tourist: yes, Kurfürstenstraße is close to famous Kurfürstendamm. They are more or less parallel to each other.)

We have already presented you to Deutsche Oper in our last mailing. Should you have followed our recommendation, you now know this beautiful underground station. This beautiful station, though, has been accompanied by several dramatic events, from a great fire in 2000, which lead to new security concepts for many other stations as well, to the wellknown shooting of student Benno Ohnesorg in 1967 at the entrance of the station, where even nowadays a memorial reminds us of his death. 
  
As a thank you for Germany´s help during the so-called Chiado-fires in Lissabon 1988, Portugal presented ÐÔÊÓ½ç with these stunning Azulejo tiles in 2002, designed by artist José de Guimaraes. These works of art could even keep away the usual commercial spaces here. One floor above he picked 20 popular opera composers as his motives, giving us some extra pre-show joy before entering the Deutsche Oper.

Taking the U7 to the north we get to our personal favourit: the train station Paulsternstraße.

A train ride on the U7 close to Rathaus Spandau is worth the time anyway - see pictures above. If you can give the underground network some of your time and stay from Hermannplatz to Spandau, you will be rewarded with a firework of colours and ornaments.

The motto for illustrator Felix Scholz´s design of this station was “urban jungle“. Unlike this motto, which has already been used a bit too often for our taste, the wild animals can surprise you easily as they are rather unexpected guests at an underground train station.

It´s only three stations now until we reach Hermannplatz. For the ““ fans among you this view should be an old friend. 

Speaking of entertainment: do you know the popular German musical „Linie 1“? It deals with things that could happen to young people riding the U1 during the time of German partition - just , if you like. Line U1 is one of the train lines getting you to , by the way. 

Wow, we could go on like this for ages! There are some stations telling you about the history of the neighbourhood on fine murals on their walls, as for example at station Bayerischer Platz. Or do you recall the exhibition ““ we advised you to see? Also located in a train staion, at Gesundbrunnen. 

You see: a trip on ÐÔÊÓ½ç´s underground trains can also be a cultural journey. It can be - it isn´t always. Our two closest stations, Kottbusser Tor and Moritzplatz, do not really invite visitors to stay and enjoy the view. But this is , anyway.