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Good writeup, the ginkgo timing is accurate. One thing I'd add: Tashan gets absolutely packed on the first weekend of December, so go on a weekday if you can, and the trees near the top of the village...

For simple pre-race food, look for an Italian place and just order pasta with plain tomato sauce or aglio e olio, most will do it without fuss. Breakfast wise, a lot of cafes do a decent scrambled egg...

Berlin's waste problem is less about people being lazy and more about the sheer density of construction and turnover. Every time a Altbau gets gutted for renovation, you get mountains of Sperrmüll dum...

Kotti is hit or miss honestly. For actual Untergrund stuff you want to look at what labels are throwing nights, places like ://about blank in Friedrichshain and Köpenicker Str. area run a lot of the h...

Skip the bars and go to Dépanneur Le Pick Up on Saint Zotique in Rosemont for lunch instead, it's a tiny old dep turned lunch counter with pulled pork sandwiches that mostly locals from the neighbourh...