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BERLIN e c a l p e h t e b must
With a long-standing reputation for being a cultural and creative hub, Berlin has plenty to offer to both business travellers and tourists, writes Andrew Jennings.
W
e all love a good ranking. Whether it is Top 10s, Top 50s or Top 100s, they often tend to garner both interest and debate in equal measure. One puzzling oddity in the annual ranking of ‘Europe’s Top Most Visited Cities’ is that the German capital Berlin can never squeeze into the top ten, while in Euromonitor International’s ‘Top 100 City Destinations 2018’ report, it only ranked the 36th most visited city globally. It is head-scratching stuff for anybody who has spent any time in Germany’s largest and most diverse city.
Berlin, at some point, became synonymous with the word “cool”. A special kind of cool. Something very, well. Berlin. It’s hard to put your finger on it but Berlin just has its very own style and flair, not surprising given the city’s long tradition of being a creative and capital hub. The locals in Berlin do like to remind the world that the city was once a cultural hotspot and a liberal, free city in the 1920s, before history took over. Berlin today is the type of Bohemian capital that once made many artists, philosophers and writers famous. Regular visitors for either business or pleasure will undoubtedly struggle with words
GETTING THERE
BY AIR: Ryanair and Aer Lingus both direct from Dublin to Schönefeld. From there it is a quick cab ride or S-Bahn to the city centre.
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