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Berlin for beginners

Top 10 recommendations for parents with children.

Berlin, our love! A city that’s permanently unfinished, always halfway to become something other than it is now… a place where young people from alternative subcultures and new parents from all over Europe mix together!

Below we present our top 10 recommendations for parents with children. We are not good tourists — we don’t like crowds and we hate queueing — so we recommend lesser known but more authentic places. Read on!

Dudu is generally a casual, relaxed place, but in the evening it’s packed to the brim. Most seating spaces are at the big communal tables in the heated garden.

We are sorry to say our hometown, Warsaw, is a concrete jungle when compared to the green Berlin, where the ample plane trees provide shade and oxygen. The main part of the German capital is dotted with parks of various sizes, available to everyone, where it’s perfectly fine to spread a blanket, bring a picnic and have a glass of wine.

One particular feature of Berlin parks are their playgrounds — each park would have at least one, and often a few, competing with each other in style and a range of attractions. For kids this is heaven on earth and they can easily spend an entire afternoon in one of those.

Most playgrounds feature wooden elements, water installations, and kiddy zip lines to move between platforms like Indiana Jones. There are also sand-moving machines and trampolines built into the ground.

Kolle is a place for builders. The rules are simple; every child, upon entering, gets a hammer, a saw and 20 nails. There are wooden planks everywhere that can be made into houses, platforms or installations. In the middle of the park there is a campfire where kids can roast marshmallows.

And just to be clear — we are talking about real tools and nails, the kind you can you buy in a DIY store. The kind you can bruise your thumb with or hurt your head. Basically, Kolle is the place that does away with all the principles of ‘safe child-rearing’.

If you think you’re chilled parents, we guarantee you that a visit in the Kolle Park (especially with a small child that is at the younger end of allowed age bracket) will make you question that and test your mental endurance.

Of course, Bruno was in heaven (Sonia was too young to enter — the rules say the child must be at least six). We don’t know exactly what he did inside and how he communicated with others, not speaking neither English nor German, but even after three hours he was absolutely not ready to leave. Please note: footwear must cover toes; sandals are forbidden for quite obvious reasons.

(The pictures were taken during a rare ‘open day’ where parents are allowed in).

Natural History Museum in Berlin is located in Mitte (near the underground station by the same name). Inside you will find dinosaur bones, insects, animals and minerals. The latter ones made a particular impression on Bruno (he’s in the ‘Minecraft’ phase if that means anything to you). Other than that, there are lots gadgets, such as 3D Glasses for movie projections.

The Museum mascot is Bobby, a gorilla from 1920s, whose stuffed body is displayed towards the exit. Bobby can also be seen in other parts of Berlin — for example there is a Bobby statue in Berlin Zoo.

Interestingly, there is also a gigantic walk-in freezer as big as a cinema right in the middle of the museum. It’s filled with all kinds of life forms preserved in jars of formaldehyde. This we would recommend only for the non-squeamish ones (and probably adult).

After such a dose of culture it’s time to return to eating! Our first breakfast recommendation is ABC Alan’s Breakfast Club, yet another place in Prenzlauer Berg. Run by Alan, an Australian who moved to Berlin and feels so at home here now that his English is sometimes hard to understand.

The restaurant specialty is intensely red, heavenly tasting pickled salmon, prepared by the owner himself. The rest of the menu is also worth trying — scrumptious toasties, sandwiches with carefully selected avocados and fresh juices.

We recommend two traditional German breakfasts:

It’s impossible to include all the fantastic places in Berlin in just one post. Below you will find some additional recommendations:

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