BOOKING BLUE: THE BERLIN CS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2013 VOL.2 ED. 3 | Page 7

My berlin
The Booking Blue Editorial Team shares with you some of their
favorite things to do, see and eat in Berlin. And no, Berghain is
not on the list.....tourist.

S**T Expat berliners say

check out the online
version of the magazine
to watch this hilarious
video
Schöneberger Südgelände Nature Park
Untamed nature, forgotten technology and works of art.
Schöneberger Südgelände Nature Park offers the visitors
something quite unusual even by Berlin standards. Its
flora and fauna conceal in a thick vegetation a whole
abandoned railway site. Between birch trees and ferns
you suddenly come
across railroad tracks
entangled in roots, mosscovered control knobs
once used to direct the
rail
traffic,
rusted
metallic objects which
now house mice, snails
and squirrels. There is
even a vintage steam
locomotive. Evidences of
the unstoppable flow of time and human fragility, but
more than a melancholy feeling, it is the sense of natural
beauty and the peace surrounding it to prevail.
Thanks to the efforts of
many
concerned
citizens and with the
financial backing of the
Allianz Environmental
Foundation,
this
magical place was made
accessible to the general
public. PRELLERWEG
47-49, 12157

What makes this video so funny and timeless is
that you can always determine how long
someone has been living in Berlin by their
reaction to this video and if they still make
comments like the ones in this video. Basically,
a series of one sentence statements Nate
Blanchard‘s parody of expats is suprisingly
accurate and equally hilarious. Written by Ryan
Erich and Nate Blanchard. Camera and editing
by Barry Jordan.

In 1877 the brothers
Emil
and
Max
Leydicke founded in
the
Schöneberg
Mansteinstraße a liqueur factory and tasting
room . They put fruit wines and liqueurs ,
burned hard liquor own recipes and sold it . In
the
20s
the
Destillierstube in the
shadow
of
Yorck
bridges to a pub with
the usual audience of
the proletariat and the
petty bourgeoisie was .
Until 1968.
Raimon
Marquardt
along with his mother,
now takes Leydicke
into the 4th generation.
Today, the fruit wines
flow again, often still based on the old recipes
of Emil and Max burned down by the liqueurs
of the vaunted eggnog , mocha cream and
Pomeranzenlikör . He would have given the
licenses to a large company to produce his
wine but he makes it all in the original
distillery in his basement. Why? Because of the
122-years of tradition.
MANSTEINSTR. 4, 10789 - SCHÖNEBERG