Around and About - F10 Wannsee - Kladow
Posted on July 23, 2010 - Filed Under Around & About Berlin, Berlin, Berliners, Transport | Leave a Comment
On a hot and sunny afternoon last week, I took a trip on the F10 from Wannsee to Kladow. The F10 is one of six ferry services worked on behalf of the BVG and can be used by holders of regular VBB tickets. This facility has made the F10 popular with the Berliners for many […]
Read More..>>Around and About Berlin - Advertising in the U-Bahn
Posted on July 13, 2010 - Filed Under Around & About Berlin, Berlin, Transport, U-Bahn | Leave a Comment
About a year ago, the BVG started what I think was the first of a series of Advertising campaigns, in which a complete underground station was ‘branded’ to advertise one product. The BVG hoped in this way to increase revenue in advertising on the U-Bahn, which in recent years had drastically decreased, not in only […]
Read More..>>Twenty Years Ago - 1 July 1990
Posted on July 1, 2010 - Filed Under Berlin, S-Bahn, Then and now, Transport | Leave a Comment
Twenty years ago, at Midnight on 1st July 1990, the first stage of German Re-unification swung into action and with it the Deutsche Mark or DM became legal tender in The German Democratic Republic. At the same time, the Mark der DDR lost it’s validity. Things hadn’t been planned to happen this way, but the […]
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