On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 02:19:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/26/2016 12:21 PM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> This is assuming you want to eat at those places while you're in
>> Berlin,
>
> I'm looking forward to a bratwurst with some good senf!

I think the classic is Currywurst:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst

A proper well-made Döner kebab should also be good (but ask the locals where to get a proper one, so you avoid being served gone-off meat mash):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab

On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 01:44:07 -0700
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> The hotel emailed them to me, I presume they know what they're doing :-) so I thought I'd share:
>
> Bus 109 to Jakob-Kaiser-Platz
> Subway U 7 in the direction of Rudow to Grenzallee
> Cross the street at the traffic light and turn left. The next street
> on the right is Jahnstraße.
> On the left side you will find our hotel.

Word of warning. Go to the _right_ when exiting the train at Grenzallee. There are two exits, both of which pop out near a street light. I made the mistake of going to the left (since that's where other folks exiting the train were going), and while that's just down the street from the other exit, if you try and follow the directions from there, you're not going to find the hotel.

- Jonathan M Davis

On 4/24/2016 1:44 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> The hotel emailed them to me, I presume they know what they're doing :-)
> so I thought I'd share:
>
> Bus 109 to Jakob-Kaiser-Platz
> Subway U 7 in the direction of Rudow to Grenzallee
> Cross the street at the traffic light and turn left. The next street on
> the right is Jahnstraße.
> On the left side you will find our hotel.


I made it to the hotel yesterday, thanks everyone for the help! The only issue was trying to find the 3 day bus pass on the ticket machine with impatient locals tapping their toes behind me and telling me there was no such ticket!

Just had to click around on the options until I found it.

On 4/26/2016 7:19 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> I'm looking forward to a bratwurst with some good senf!

I got a bratwurst yesterday from a street vendor in front of the Brandenburger Tor. Awesome! Made me want to get some lederhosen.

P.S. Also got some Apfel Struedel at the Einstein Cafe on the Unter den Linden.

On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 03:33:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/26/2016 7:19 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I'm looking forward to a bratwurst with some good senf!
>
> I got a bratwurst yesterday from a street vendor in front of the Brandenburger Tor. Awesome! Made me want to get some lederhosen.
>
> P.S. Also got some Apfel Struedel at the Einstein Cafe on the Unter den Linden.

if you want to do more sightseeing i can recommend http://www.ddr-museum.de/en
i was there last year and its very weird to see how people lift not long ago.

On 5/2/16 4:55 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/24/2016 1:44 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> The hotel emailed them to me, I presume they know what they're doing :-)
>> so I thought I'd share:
>>
>> Bus 109 to Jakob-Kaiser-Platz
>> Subway U 7 in the direction of Rudow to Grenzallee
>> Cross the street at the traffic light and turn left. The next street on
>> the right is Jahnstraße.
>> On the left side you will find our hotel.
>
>
> I made it to the hotel yesterday, thanks everyone for the help! The only
> issue was trying to find the 3 day bus pass on the ticket machine with
> impatient locals tapping their toes behind me and telling me there was
> no such ticket!
>
> Just had to click around on the options until I found it.

I arrived as well. I foolishly chose to ignore this thread and assumed taking the taxi from the airport to the hotel is a proper choice. So I hop on the taxi and ask if he takes credit. He says no taxi at the airport does. So I walk to an ATM and get some Euros, then hop back in the cab. There's no driver/car identification displayed inside and I see no meter. I ask where the meter is, he says it's on the left (where I can't see what it shows).

We get to the hotel, he says it's 76 Euros. I'm like, Jesus this is high. He goes, yeah Tegel is far away from this hotel, next time try to book the other airport. I ask for a receipt, he handwrites me one on a standard form with no stamp and no identification.

As I walk to the reception I ask the receptionist what's the usual taxi price to the airport and sure enough I paid twice the usual. I mention what I paid and to her credit she makes an effort to call the number on the receipt and tries to figure out what happened. They say they can't do anything without a stamp on the receipt so she suggests I call the police and try to get his plates off of some security cameras. I figure life is too short to press on, but this is quite the bummer - Germany was really the last place where I assumed this kind of stuff cannot happen. In fact it was the reason for which I didn't heed the non-visible meter warning; something similar did happen to me in Romania, in a very different era.


Andrei

On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 03:33:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/26/2016 7:19 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I'm looking forward to a bratwurst with some good senf!
>
> I got a bratwurst yesterday from a street vendor in front of the Brandenburger Tor. Awesome! Made me want to get some lederhosen.
>
> P.S. Also got some Apfel Struedel at the Einstein Cafe on the Unter den Linden.

For a Lederhose you have to be in a diffrent part of Germany.

On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 11:14:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/2/16 4:55 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I arrived as well. I foolishly chose to ignore this thread and assumed taking the taxi from the airport to the hotel is a proper choice. So I hop on the taxi and ask if he takes credit. He says no taxi at the airport does. So I walk to an ATM and get some Euros, then hop back in the cab. There's no driver/car identification displayed inside and I see no meter. I ask where the meter is, he says it's on the left (where I can't see what it shows).
>
> [...]


I would expect that of Romania :)

But in Berlin ? You had bad luck indeed.

P.S. I am just touching up on a CTFE transcompiler.
I figured sqlite and lz4 are too boring topics.

On 05/03/2016 01:14 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I arrived as well. I foolishly chose to ignore this thread and assumed taking the taxi from the airport to the hotel is a proper choice. So I hop on the taxi and ask if he takes credit. He says no taxi at the airport does. So I walk to an ATM and get some Euros, then hop back in the cab. There's no driver/car identification displayed inside and I see no meter. I ask where the meter is, he says it's on the left (where I can't see what it shows).
> 
> We get to the hotel, he says it's 76 Euros. I'm like, Jesus this is high. He goes, yeah Tegel is far away from this hotel, next time try to book the other airport. I ask for a receipt, he handwrites me one on a standard form with no stamp and no identification.
> 
> As I walk to the reception I ask the receptionist what's the usual taxi price to the airport and sure enough I paid twice the usual. I mention what I paid and to her credit she makes an effort to call the number on the receipt and tries to figure out what happened. They say they can't do anything without a stamp on the receipt so she suggests I call the police and try to get his plates off of some security cameras. I figure life is too short to press on, but this is quite the bummer - Germany was really the last place where I assumed this kind of stuff cannot happen. In fact it was the reason for which I didn't heed the non-visible meter warning; something similar did happen to me in Romania, in a very different era.
> 
> 
> Andrei

As it was already mentioned, Berlin is the least german city in the
whole Germany - but this sounds like some very bad luck even for Berlin :(

On Tue, 3 May 2016 13:14:07 +0200
Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>
wrote:
> I arrived as well. I foolishly chose to ignore this thread and assumed taking the taxi from the airport to the hotel is a proper choice. So I hop on the taxi and ask if he takes credit. He says no taxi at the airport does. So I walk to an ATM and get some Euros, then hop back in the cab. There's no driver/car identification displayed inside and I see no meter. I ask where the meter is, he says it's on the left (where I can't see what it shows).
>
> We get to the hotel, he says it's 76 Euros. I'm like, Jesus this is high. He goes, yeah Tegel is far away from this hotel, next time try to book the other airport. I ask for a receipt, he handwrites me one on a standard form with no stamp and no identification.
>
> As I walk to the reception I ask the receptionist what's the usual taxi price to the airport and sure enough I paid twice the usual. I mention what I paid and to her credit she makes an effort to call the number on the receipt and tries to figure out what happened. They say they can't do anything without a stamp on the receipt so she suggests I call the police and try to get his plates off of some security cameras. I figure life is too short to press on, but this is quite the bummer - Germany was really the last place where I assumed this kind of stuff cannot happen. In fact it was the reason for which I didn't heed the non-visible meter warning; something similar did happen to me in Romania, in a very different era.

I had originally thought that I might take a taxi to avoid having to deal with public transit, but when it was mentioned in this thread that it was something like 40 Euros, I gave up on that idea fast. So, having to pay nearly double that is extremely painful. :(

Public transit turned out to be surprisingly straightforward. Google maps gave the correct info (including listing all of the subway stops that you pass on the way, which was helpful), but the info in this thread was definitely useful. And I still got lost when I got off the subway, because I chose the wrong exit. :)

- Jonathan M Davis