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ISMP Berlin Guide Restaurants, sightseeing and more p. 14 42 41 19 p. 13 40 p. 12 dinner 20 opening p. 3 conference p. 15 p. 5 p. 4 p. 10 32 p. 16 p. 9 33 39 p. 20 p. 17 p. 18 p. 18 p. 19 sights on p. 6–8 0 1,000 m ISMP Berlin Guide Getting around 1 Content of this guide Getting around by public transport Basics and conference All public transport in Berlin—S-Bahn, U-Bahn, trams, buses, and Getting around 1 also some ferries—is run by the company BVG. When using buses Shopping, tipping, speaking 2 you are kindly asked to get into the vehicle at the front door and to Opening ceremony 3 show the driver your ticket. Connections can be easily checked at Conference dinner 4 http://bit.ly/18ez1k or by using the convenient smart phone apps available for Android or iPhone. Sightseeing Walking tour 5 Sightseeing 6 Buses 100 & 200 Restaurants, cafes´ and more These two bus lines are especially made for tourists. They pass Around Savignyplatz 9 several sights on their way, and if you are lucky, the bus driver will Charlottenburg & Moabit 10 be an occasional guide. For boarding you only need a normal BVG Around Oranienburger Straße 12 ticket. Both lines run between Zoologischer Garten (close to the Around Rosenthaler Platz 13 conference site) and Alexanderplatz, using different routes. Bus Kollwitzplatz to Helmholtzplatz 14 100 passes the government district and Brandenburg Gate while Bus 200 visits Potsdamer Platz instead. The lines meet again at Friedrichshain 15 the boulevard Unter den Linden. The detailed routes are covered Northern Kreuzberg 36 16 in our interactive map. Southern Kreuzberg 36 & Grafe-Kiez¨ 17 Bergmannstraße & Neukolln¨ 18 Schoneberg¨ 19 Conference ticket Friedenau & Wilmersdorf 20 The conference badge allows you to use all public transport in This is an interactive guide. Several restaurant and and around Berlin (zone Berlin ABC) in the six days from 19th of museum names are links to the respective websites. August until 24th of August, if you bring your passport or na- A supplemented Google Map is provided at tional ID card. Unfortunately, driver licenses are not accepted as http://goo.gl/maps/cuZRD ID in Germany. The conference ticket need not be validated. Welcome to Berlin and to ISMP 2012! Further tickets While you are here for ISMP 2012 we would like to assist you in experiencing Berlin as Berliners do. The restaurants, cafes,´ In general, tickets need to be bought and validated before bars, etc. recommended in this guide are a collection of the boarding (bus and tram sell tickets on board). This holds also favorite places of our colleagues in the group of combinatorial for day tickets and other long term tickets. There is a reduced fair optimization and graph algorithms at TU Berlin and at the Zuse for children aged 6 – 14. Children under 6 travel for free. Institute. Although our guide is far from being complete and We have specified only the most commonly purchased tickets. the different neighborhoods are not represented to the same For a complete list of tickets and conditions see http://bit.ly/ extent, we are confident that this small leaflet gives you the cQnPvf. opportunity to visit great places in Berlin that most tourists would usually miss. Though we do not want to replace a proper Einzelfahrschein Berlin AB 2.40 e guide book we also provide you with some basic information Valid for 2h within the city limits. It allows you to travel in one about practical issues as well as an (incomplete) list of the direction only, but it includes transport changes. If you do both main sights of Berlin. ways within 2h you still need two tickets. Buying four tickets at We wish you a pleasant stay in Berlin! Wiebke and Max once lowers the price to 2.10 e/ticket. If you want to go to a place outside Berlin (e.g., Schonefeld¨ Airport SXF or Potsdam), you need zone ABC or an additional Anschlussfahrschein. Anschlussfahrschein Berlin A/C 1.60 e Getting around by taxi Extends your valid zone AB ticket to ABC, i.e., to the area around Berlin. It is analogous to the Einzefahrschein, it is valid for 2h. Getting around by taxi is rather expensive and you might want to consider using public transport instead. The taxi fares start from Tageskarte Berlin AB 6.50 e 3.20 e with an additional 1.65 e/kilometer. A short ride 2 km Allows you to use all public transport within the city limits on the (Kurzstrecke in German) at a flat rate of 4 e is possible if≤ telling day you validated the ticket, and until 3am the day after. the driver in advance. CityTourCard / WelcomeCard For both tickets there are three different durations, allowing you to travel for 48 h, 72 h or 5 days. The 48 h and 72 h tickets are Getting around by bike valid from the time you validate them to the respective number of hours later. The 5 day ticket is valid for five consecutive days start- Many places in Berlin rent bikes for 10–15 e per day. You can ing from the day of validation, always ending at midnight. Besides also use the red “Call A Bike” bikes. These can be picked up and public transport, the tickets offer discount for different tourist at- dropped off at any of the bike stations, which are located in Mitte tractions. For details, see the the link above. district, around the Tiergarten and on TU Campus (e.g., opposite of Main Building). There are (almost) no stations west of TU, see 7-Tage-Karte Berlin AB 28.00 e the map http://bit.ly/Mkj1pi. The bikes cost only 8 cents per Once validated, the ticket can be used for 7 days until midnight minute, with a maximum 15 e for the day. You can register for the of the last day. Monday to Friday from 8pm and during the whole service online or at any of the stations using your credit card or weekend, it also allows you to take one adult and up to three chil- EC card. There are great iPhone and Android Apps for the system. dren aged 6–14 with you for free (age 0–5 for free at any time). ISMP Berlin Guide Shopping, tipping, speaking 2 Opening hours & shopping Little phrasebook Most of the shops are open Monday to Saturday from 10am–8pm. Hello! – Hallo! (informal)/ For smaller shops, the opening hours can vary. Supermarkets usu- Guten Tag! (more formal) ally open at 7 or 8am and there are many that are open as late as 10pm or midnight. On Sundays only a very limited number Good morning! – Guten Morgen! of (touristic) shops are open. The supermarkets located at the Good evening! – Guten Abend! stations in Friedrichstraße, Hauptbahnhof, Ostbahnhof and Zoolo- Good bye! – Tschuss!¨ (informal)/ gischer Garten are open on Sundays. Auf Wiedersehen! (formal) It is impossible to make an exhaustive list of the shopping ar- Thank you! – Danke! eas in Berlin. So we only give a very limited overview. Close to Thank you very much! – Vielen Dank! TU there is Tauentzienstraße and Kurfurstendamm¨ . Starting please – bitte at Wittenbergbergplatz (U2) with the famous department store KaDeWe, it continues westwards with the usual chains of shops You are welcome! – Bitte! / Gerne! until Joachimstaler Straße (U1 Kurfurstendamm).¨ Further west- Sorry! – Entschuldigung! wards, the shops become more and more exclusive, peaking at Excuse me! – Entschuldigung! Olivaer Platz. What’s your name? – Wie heißt du? (informal) / If you are rather looking for small boutiques, you can walk through Wie heißen Sie? (formal) the small streets around Savignyplatz (a slightly upscale area My name is . – Ich heiße . close to TU), north of S Hackescher Markt (a trendy and often Haven’t we met before? – Kennen wir uns nicht irgendwoher? also steep area in Mitte), or in Oranienstraße (a more alterna- tive style area around U1 Gorlitzer¨ Bahnhof). From Hackescher Shall we get some fresh – Sollen wir ein bisschen frische Markt you can stroll northwards until Kollwitz Platz or Helmholtz- air? Luft schnappen? platz hopping from one shop to the other. Roughly speaking, the Nice day isn’t it? – Schones¨ Wetter heute! norther you go, the less trendier and expensive it gets. Do you speak English? – Sprechen Sie Englisch? I’m attending a – Ich nehme an einer Konferenz teil. conference. How to tip That was an excellent talk! – Das war ein toller Vortrag! I’ve read one of your – Ich habe eines Ihrer Paper gelesen. In restaurants and cafes,´ it is common to give a tip of 5–10 %, de- papers. pending on the quality of service offered. In self-service locations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 – eins, zwei, drei, vier, funf¨ it is usually not necessary to tip. For taxis, it is the same as for restaurants. How much is it? – Was kostet das? Can I try it on? – Kann ich es anprobieren? I want to buy a stamp. – Ich wurde¨ gerne eine a,¨ o,¨ u¨ & others Briefmarke kaufen. Where is . ? – Wo ist . ? How far is it? – Wie weit ist das? Here are some examples of how to pronounce different vowels or syllables in the German language. I’d like a taxi now / – Ich hatte¨ gerne ein Taxi fur¨ tomorrow / at . sofort / morgen / um . a – as u in cut (short) or as a in card (long) breakfast – Fruhst¨ uck¨ a¨ – as a in cat (short) or as ai in stair (long) lunch – Mittagessen au – as ow in cow dinner – Abendessen au¨ – as oy in toy I’m starving! – Ich bin am Verhungern! ch – as in machine or as in Loch Ness I’d like to reserve a table – Ich wurder¨ gerne einen e – as e in wet (short) or similar to a in bagel (long) for 10 people / 8 o’clock Tisch fur¨ zehn Personen / ei – as uy in buy um acht Uhr reservieren.