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Sky Travel Producer, Jo Ellis, checks out Berlin's bustling night life and reveals a few of her favourite bars.
Sky Travel's roving producer, Jo Ellis, reports back on the nightlife in the 'Kapital of Kool', Berlin.
Berlin is a city like no other.
In the last century it was fragmented, bombed, divided, re-united and reconstructed. So much change and disturbance has left an edgy feeling city where you get a sense that nothing's set in stone. This sense of constant evolvement attracts the kind of people who want to live on the edge.
It's a trendy city for trendy people. And not in the main stream ‘listen to dance music and wear clothes from Top Shop' kind of way. I'm talking über cool. So cool in fact that many fashion brands test their designs in Berlin months or even years before releasing them to the rest of the world! They're that ahead of the game here!
All these trendy people need places to socialise after hours of course. Forget the brash and brassy pubs or bars you'd find crammed with inebriated townies in many British cities. In Berlin people in the know drink at sophisticated & quirky bars with dim lighting, fantastic cocktail menus and discreet (but very current) music.
In the know in Berlin
Berlin's not a pretty city, and a tour of its best bars is by no means a tour of its nicest areas. Rather you'll need to search places out. They'll be hidden within high rise housing blocks, or behind anonymous building facades, or within industrial sites.
They get going late as well; this is a city where the most fashionable don't even go out until gone midnight! In fact many start partying early on a Sunday morning and continue into the next day (daylight doesn't necessarily mean the end of the night in Berlin!)
East and West do offer a slightly different nightlife, largely due to the fact that until 1989 they were completely divided. So if you want to experience a more upmarket style of fashionable bar head west. And if you're a bit edgier and more urban you're definitely best off heading east.
Wherever you go one pleasant surprise will be the low cost of a night out in Berlin. Especially if you're used to the extortionate prices of our own capital city's nightlife. With so many students and a very young population Berlin's bar prices are relatively low, particularly if you stick to beer rather than cocktails!
→ Next Page: Jo's picks of her favourite Berlin bars.
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