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my mom is 70 and loves cycling, think more casual e-biking on trails and bike paths than road cyc… hi! I've searched for this info in other threads but couldn't find anything. hoping someone can help!
my mom is 70 and loves cycling, think more casual e-biking on trails and bike paths than road cycling.
we're going cycling together in the Scottish Highlands later this month, and she decided to extend her trip. She wants to visit Berlin and go cycling there (we live in different parts of the U.S. and are flying in and out of London and I know to Europeans this seems insane, but we gotta take advantage of international flights lol).
Can anyone recommend social cycling clubs or groups that organize social rides that might be a good fit for her? Groups of older women would be especially good, I think!
more relevant details: - When we ride in the highlands we do ~20-25 miles/day through the woods and hills on mostly gravel paths, and it's pretty hilly. I'm 36 and in good shape and some of the hills were a little challenging for me on a regular gravel bike, but for her on the e-bike they aren't bad. - My top concern for her is just getting around and navigating/finding paths that are not on the road, and I thought having a group she could join would make it easier and more enjoyable for her. - She's most nervous to go to Berlin on her own and navigate everything at her age while not speaking German. I think she may be okay, especially given how many people speak English in Berlin. - She's very social and loves to learn about other people and cultures. Our family hosted an exchange student from Germany 25 years ago and we're still in touch and have visited her in NW Germany many times, so this will not be my mom's first time to Germany, although she's always been with us or our former exchange student in the past.
I already committed to going to see friends in Italy (yes, also insane) so I can't join her, although I'd love to because I've been to Berlin a few times and loved cycling and everything else there.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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