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WELCOME TO BERLIN

            Springtime!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ipnetermrnaanteiontneaxlhmibiutiosenum

                                   April: time to breathe in the first wafts of spingtime,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       (worth €2,80)
                                   its new light and colors, and to relish the chirping
                                   from its reborn trees. It’s also time to get our bikes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  open daily:
                                   out. This has been a mild winter by Berlin standards,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         mon - sat 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
                                   and though I have managed to never ever leave                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           sun + holidays 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
                                   my bicycle at home, this month I will start oiling
                                   its rusty bolts to get it ready for the even heavier                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    (24th December closed)
                                   duty of the warmer season. For those of you who
feel like enjoying the city on two wheels, this is the time to join a collective                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Potsdamer Platz
bike tour with one of the city's tour agencies (p. 39), or rent your own bike                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       entrance: Leipziger Platz 7
for independent riding. At Berlin and Bike (www.berlinandbike.de) near
Alexanderplatz, prices start at €10/day, and you can even take the bikes on the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Infos: 0700 - 325 423 75**| Tickets: www.DaliBerlin.de
S-Bahn and U-Bahn if you purchase an extra ticket from the BVG machines you'll
find in any station.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   (**0,14€/ Min. from a landline, mobile communications vary, max 0,42€/ Min.)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    *only in combination with the entrance fee. Cannot be combined with other offers.
To help you get the most out of the awakening of nature, we spent the last
month selecting a chromatic array of activities for these April days, from walks in                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Valid until June, 30th 2015.
the greenery and skate rides under the blue skies of the wide Tempelhof airport
park to drinks in the yellow sunshine and visits to Berlin's peacock island (p. 10).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   With over 450 exhibits from private collections
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         this permanent exhibition provides general
And for the golf lovers in town, Annabelle spoke to golf experts all over the city
to select the most scenic and the chicest golf courses out there. It turns out                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       insight into Dalí’s virtuous mastery in almost all art
that you don't have to travel far to swing your club: there's even a golf training                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          techniques in Berlin’s lively city centre.
area on the roof of a building overlooking the Spree river in Kreuzberg. The balls
are nothing but compressed fish food, and you can make the fish happy with                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    www.daliberlin.de
every stroke.
PORTRAIT BY THOMAS HEDRICH/FOTOSTUDIO-CHARLOTTENBURG; SKYLINE©TOTALPICS/ISTOCK/THINKSTOCK
SOLVEIG STEINHARDT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Hômmage á S. Dalí by DaVial
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