Berlin is a metropolis. It is also known as the German capital to most people. But that’s not all: Berlin is also a Green City! In Spring and Summer particularly it can no longer be ignored – everything is greening and blooming all over the place.
For an extensive visit to the Green City, you should schedule several days if you can so that picnics and BBQs can be organised at least on the most important green spaces. For biking, paddling, hiking, strolling and searching for all other urban green areas spread over Berlin, one would probably have to use the full annual vacation!
Even the most experienced Green City aficionado has a difficult choice to make for a simple green outing: the options include Tiergarten with beer garden and café at Neuer See. Here you can leave all your cares behind, possibly rent a boat and paddle… Children are happy to pay a visit to the nearby Zoo…
Or do you prefer to enjoy a day just like at the seaside? Do you want to surf and sail and fly kites, let your gaze wander over a never-ending horizon, for a change… This is the feeling prevailing on Tempelhofer Feld. The former airfield site is a giant sea of meadows in the middle of the city for kite skaters, kite flyers, roll surfers, joggers, or people who simply want to relax in meadows, with the wind in the hair and a clear mind.
It can even be romantic: the way from the airfield through Hasenheide, along the petting zoo, to Landwehr canal is not very long. Here, in the meadow in Urbanhafen, the bottle of red wine tastes best and makes it easier to move closer to one another, while listening to guitar sounds and watching people. Maybe it is even more romantic in Schlossgarten in front of Schloss Charlottenburg. Or does Lustgarten live up to its name?
The best music plays in Mauerpark. Whoever can and wants to sing (or even those who do not have talent) sing here – with karaoke and jumble sale it will certainly never be boring. When climbing on the Kreuzberg hill in Viktoriapark, mastering the high rope course Jungfernheide, on Schöneberger Südgelände between locomotives and rails and even more during a world tour through the Gardens of the World, the green outing becomes an active vacation.
After so many experiences you simply want to grill a sausage at the end of the day in Volkspark Friedrichshain or watch the sun go down on Wannsee, while being totally exhausted. It’s such a pity that a year has only 365 days – for a city with around 425,000 trees this is clearly not enough. But with so much green, we do not have to paint a gloomy picture, because Botanischer Garten, Britzer Garten, Wuhletal, Körnerpark, Müggelberge, Grunewald, Wuhlheide, Spreepark, Treptower Park… will still be around next year! Preview some of these on the website visitberlin.de.
