#2. Berlin

A vast, vibrant, and diverse European capital whose last 100 years have been as eventful as any city's in the world. Great museums and orchestras, cutting edge architecture, huge parks, an amazing network of rivers and lakes, nonstop night life, the finest and most varied cuisine of any city in our three countries, and, with Munich, the best shopping in Germany. Best of all, it's half the price of Paris, London or Rome.

Top Sights:

• Potsdamer Platz
• Berlin Film Museum
• Jewish Museum
• Checkpoint Charlie Museum
• Kaiser-Willhelm Memorial Church
• Topography of Terror
• Soviet Memorial
• Pergamon Museum
• Gemldegalerie
• Neue Nationalgalerie
• Charlotttenburg Palace
• Reichstag
• Brandenburg Gate
• Gendarmenmarkt
• Tiergarten
• Berlin Zoo
• The Olympic Stadium
• Airlift Memorial
• Dahlem Museum 

Suggested Activity:

• Walk east, down the fashionable Kudamm, passing the Memorial Church, and ending up for lunch on the food floor of the famed Ka De We department store. 

A Place to Stay:

• Hotel Art Nouveau, Leibnizstr. 59, tel. +49/030/327 7440, fax 327 744 40, email: hotelartnouveau@snafu.de

Food Suggestion: 

• Wegner & Lutter, Schlterstr. 55, tel. +49/030/881 34 40