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Is it illegal to take a piece of the Berlin Wall?
Edit: The new answer by Jack is quite excellent! However, unless doing something like that, then:
There was a lot of leftover debris while the Berlin Wall was being demolished. That, however, was a ...
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Is it illegal to take a piece of the Berlin Wall?
There is a hotel in Berlin that lets you chip away your own pieces of the wall and take them with you as part of a package deal. So there do still exist legal options for you to take your own piece ...
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Is it illegal to take a piece of the Berlin Wall?
This contradicts travel etiquette more generally. (Barring some more specific local ethic saying it's okay, but that doesn't seem to exist here). The ethic is known as Leave No Trace (wikipedia) and ...
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How are validated underground tickets checked in Berlin?
Tickets get checked once in a while, usually by people with nondescript clothes waiting for passengers exiting the platforms or getting into the carriage and revealing themselves as ticket inspectors ...
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Walk/Run from Berlin Tegel Airport to Berlin City Centre
I am living in Berlin Moabit which is very close to Tegel Airport. Since Tegel and Moabit are not that interesting at the first sight (which is what you catch when running I think), you should take ...
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How are validated underground tickets checked in Berlin?
To my experience, tickets get checked by people dressed as passengers, so you cannot notice them when entering the metro and change your path. When the doors close, they rapidly ask everyone to show ...
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How does Berlin Transport Validation Stamp mark current date and/or expiry date?
After the time-of-day on the stamp is a day-of-week in letters and a week number in numbers.
The 7-day ticket is stamped on Friday of week 45 in 2016.
The single ticket from Tegel is stamped on ...
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Which options do I have to travel in Berlin in an affordable way?
Berlin has bikes available for rent through Deutsche Bahn. The prices for casual use are €3 per year subscription and then either €1 per half hour or €15 per day (pricelist in German).
For public ...
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Can I live in Berlin comfortably for one month with 1,000 euros if housing is free?
In general, I would say, this is doable, however in the end it depends also a bit on your definition of "comfortable". So here are just a few points to consider:
There are different tickets for ...
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Crossing roads in Berlin
Ok, JoErNanO explained the legal part, now as German I am able to explain the unofficial part.
It has nothing to do with a fine.
You are disobeying openly a rule while others are present. The amount ...
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Travel between Germany and Poland by train
Wow. Interesting question, and one we don't get here very often.
As a Polish citizen, you are allowed to enter Germany and Poland and to cross the border as often as you like. The problem is proving ...
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How do you use Berlin crosswalk signal boxes?
Simple answer - you don't. Unless you're blind, as that's who they are designed for. And given that your question started with "I see ..." I'm going to presume that you are, indeed, not blind!
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Planning to stay for 3 months in Berlin, Germany. Should I bring a car with me?
1 You don’t need a car for most personal local transportation
I'm a resident of Berlin since birth (some 25–30 years ago) and I never owned a car. Imho the transportation system is perfectly ...
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Walking experience in Berlin
I don't recall any peculiar rule. You are supposed to walk on the sidewalk and to cross streets only when the pedestrian sign is green (unlike the UK, if that's where you come from). You can receive a ...
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Exactly where can you go with a single-trip ticket in Berlin?
Don't sweat the fine print too much.
In practice, you can take any train or bus within the travel zone and the 120 minute validity period - provided you don't go back to where you came from. The is ...
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Which stations in Berlin have ICE connections to Leipzig
1) There are three stops for ICE leaving Berlin in the direction of Leipzig: Berlin Hbf and Berlin Südkreuz. The third one is either Berlin-Spandau or Berlin-Gesundbrunnen. The fifth station in ...
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Transport in Berlin with a single ticket
You can find some good information on all the possible Berlin public transport tickets on their English language website here. They have a few different short time-period based tickets, which include ...
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Berlin Public Transport Ticket Validity
You can find a detailed description of the stamp content on this page (in German).
The calendar week and last digit of year assumptions in the comments are correct. Your ticket was stamped 10:00 on ...
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Is Berlin and Munich doable in a single weekend?
I have been in Berlin for four weeks(!) in school summer holiday 2004 (age 18). It wasn't boring at all during that time, although I must admit that I spent some days in museums and at Wannsee Tegeler ...
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Which stations in Berlin have ICE connections to Leipzig
As the travel is in Germany, I would go to the German rail planner Bahn.de, which has the option to select 'all stations' for cities. (It is available in many languages, I have selected the English ...
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Is Berlin and Munich doable in a single weekend?
If you can really sleep in buses and there are tickets for the buses you plan to take, you can do it.
But most people will be broken after a night in a bus, sleep only little or lightly and will not ...
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Found a lonely bike in Germany, what to do?
In Germany, the finder of lost or "apparently abandoned" items is required to turn them in at the Fundbüro. The one for Berlin is at the former Tempelhof airport terminal.
If the item is claimed by ...
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Which options do I have to travel in Berlin in an affordable way?
In addition to Edd's answer, there is also the possibility to rent a bike at bike rental companies (link is German only) or in almost every hotel. You can recognize the hotel bike rentals easily ...
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Where is this structure in Berlin?
The caption on this online version of the image at Getty Images says:
Germany Berlin Tempelhof (Tempelhof-Schoeneberg) - load testing structure at General-Pape-Strass, built 1941 by Albert Speer, ...
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Flat renting in Berlin for medium-term period
For medium term flat rentals (1-2 months) you could look to
Airbnb
which works in about any place by now. Probably cheaper would be if you can find a private place as a temporary short-term rental ...
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Can I live in Berlin comfortably for one month with 1,000 euros if housing is free?
You can buy monthly train ticket for around 70 EUR (2 rings), much cheaper than weekly ticket but it depends on what route you will go on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Ringbahn
Train from ...
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Is there an easyJet ticket office in Schönefeld?
There is an EasyJet Customer Service desk where I had to go to change my flight because I had just missed the one I had originally booked. They handled everything there and printed me a new boarding ...
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Is Berlin experiencing a decrease in public activity during summer time (July and August)?
Some things do have a kind of break during the summer (one that comes to mind are the opera houses but isn't it true of opera houses everywhere?) but shops will have normal opening hours. Cafe are ...
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Berlin to Göttingen by train - which Berlin station to use?
There is no train, S-Bahn or Metro station at Tegel airport. The most convenient option is to take a bus to Berlin Hauptbahnhof (central station) and to catch there the train to Göttingen.
http://...
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