Walking the Kurfürstendamm

[Skybird]

What I do with my bicycle videos, others do on feet and regarding their tours.

I like these videos they have at youtube, "walking Kurfürstendamm". Its films that show just what the title claims: a pedestrian's wandering up and down on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

Some of these videos really are very ilustrative if you want to get a feel for the atmosphere and a first look of the place, or in my case: reconnecting with some memories. I link just two or three that i especially liked.And every especially the christams video.


You can safely accelerate the speed to 2x and still have a pleasant virtual walking speed, only the sound is distorted then.






From Kudamm-Karree to Adenauerplatz (from east to west)



From Wittenbergplatz/KadeWe over Bundesallee to Bahnhof Zoo and Europacenter

[Jimbuna]

Never been to Berlin but it is on my list of places I'd like to visit.

[Exocet25fr]

I was younger, in 1972 I crossed the wall with special ausweiss, an incredible experience! an other world!

[Eichhörnchen]

Very enjoyable

[Exocet25fr]

Sorry !, not enjoyable !, you mistake about my intention because bad emoticon; I deleted it!

[Skybird]

There are so many good videos, and very good surround sound in them. I am surprised, I did not knoew this. Found this, its the Schloßstrasse in Berlin Schöneberg, wich in most years rates as the most income.rioch and relevant shopping mall in Berlin. Thankfzull,y it mysteriously renmaisn unonown to many tourists. We lived very close to it, by feet 10 minutes away, so I know this mall very, very well, its very familiar to me. Nice lights, and time of year and day.

Again, accelerate the video's speed to 2x, it works good, though not on the sounds.

I found surprisingly many videos when searching for "Walking + streetname/cityname": Lübeck, Wismar, Grunewald, its all there...
Also many bicycle videos, comparbale to those I do. I hope the author never get found by a lawye seeing those bike films, he may end up in expensive troubles then if he did not official film with authorization. I would not set such films up openly.

[Skybird]

This is another face of Berlin: Kreuzberg. Much liked by the ones, much hated by the others, it is an alien place for me that I never had sympathy for at all, and I avoided it when I could, and that was almost always. Its aggressive, loud, dirtier, not as peacefull, settled and uncrowded as Friedenau is where my family lived. But its another aspect of Berlin. Some may even enjoy it. I know that many youngster enjoy the troubles of Kreuzberg. But to me it represents much of what I do not like in Berlin at all.




And following is a bike tour through other central districts like Friedrichshain, Prenzlauerberg, Mitte

[Skybird]

This is a one-hour film-expedition into the nightlife around the so-called Hackesche Höfe (Hacke's Courtyards) in Berlin.

This is a somewhat bewichting film with a very dream-like, enchanting atmosphere - at leasts in my perception. The young Japanese lady filming it (you can see her reflection in some windows she films into) just walks around, through the courtyards, and the surroundign streets and sourrounding courtyars of other blocks, without talking, and so the viewer dives into every new scene she opens, and it is somewhat surreal like you move from scene to scene like in a dream, or a stageplay with ever changing stages, or like you promendade from painting to painting when strolling around a museum, and it goes into the light and the colours, and then back into the darkness and silence, and then the next scene opens up and there is light and colours and people again, and then you leave again, and in and out and in and out. The mood of this film has really taken me away. You see some ugly places, too, but be patient, it never stays there, the next colour- and light-enshedded scene soon will open up, and sometimes ts lonely neolights, and sometime sit warm glow. A very dreamlike atmosphere, I liked it tremendously. Its a different , less noisy and less proletarian night life like in other places in Berlin that I actually do know - this one as depicted in the film I did not know about, I have never been in that city sector.

Having seen the same place in films through the daylight, I must say at night its a completely different world.

I admit this is only of ointerest if you have a generla interest for thois lind of tourist movies. I watch such stuff a lot, and not just Berlin. I think I must have been in over two dozen froeign cities this way by now, often hzavign done 1-2 hours tozruist bus tours in full 360° VR. Its fantastic. I am deeply thankful for the options VR offers - and the many people shooting in dedicate d 360° or high quality 4K and 8K like here. Some may say "But its not real!" - but I tell ypou with 5 years of experience now, its so much better to travel virtually these ways than to missi it alltogether! Who gains more - the one going with the option of getting 50% of 100, or the one who insists on pure 100% of nothing, becasue he never got even virtually started? And lets face it: tavelling for real is not just fun and excitement, its also STRESS and exhauistion.

The film is not 360° and its not VR, though I recommend to watch it in VR on the big screen in a moviehall surrounding.

She has shot incredibly many videos.

[Skybird]

There is this man. No, not me. He lives in Berlin Lichterfelde, and he apparently works in Berlin Mitte near Hackescher Markt. He makes his way back and forth on a cargo bike. Every day. To work in the morning, back home late afternoon noon. And he films it. Every time. The whole way. Always the same route. Day and night. Light and dark, nice weather, rainy weather, hazy weather, sunny weather, spring, summer, autumn and winter. Dozens of videos. All the same route, once there and once back.



Why not... This is such a ride, morning to work, summer, rush hour, on on eof the most important main traffic and the most important shopping street in Berlin, from Lichterfelde to the Steglitzer Kreisel, along the Schloßstrasse, Rheinstrasse, Hauptstrasse, Potsdamer Strasse - all one and the same street, which is only called differently in different sections. Potsdamer Platz and Philharmoinie, then turn to Brandenburg Gate, to the street Unter den Linden, the Museum Island, the Zeughaus, over the Friedrichbrücke, destination Hackescher Markt. 12.5-13 km, around half an hour. By car it is not faster and most likely slower, by public transport it takes longer.

If you want to know exactly, click:

https://classic-maps.openrouteservic...k1=en-US&k2=km

And off you go. Once across the whole city, gives a pretty overall impression. Who wants to see that even in the dark or bad weather, in autumn or winter and also times in the opposite direction - as I said, the guy has these videos by the dozen. It's fun to drive this even in the dark in winter, because it goes over the most important shopping mall in Berlin, and then all the lights and the glitter...




I am a bit surprised to what degree they apparently have banned car traffic. In some areas in the last third of the film its like living on a different planet when you cycle along those empty avenues with those huge modern or classical buildings and you have the street almost for yourself.

[Skybird]

A nice 1 hour walk around the Museum Island in Berlin, usually seen as one of the touristic hotspots. He walks at a pedestrian's speed, so i recommend to speed up the video by 2x (in youtube options). If you chase after cultural education when being a tourist, this area is obligatory to visit.

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Skybird

There is this man. No, not me. He lives in Berlin Lichterfelde, and he apparently works in Berlin Mitte near Hackescher Markt. He makes his way back and forth on a cargo bike. Every day. To work in the morning, back home late afternoon noon. And he films it. Every time. The whole way. Always the same route. Day and night. Light and dark, nice weather, rainy weather, hazy weather, sunny weather, spring, summer, autumn and winter. Dozens of videos. All the same route, once there and once back.

I'm wondering if perhaps he is on the spectrum? But it could well be he's making a valuable social document for all that. Did you clock the guy who nearly falls off his bike at 3:26 as we pass him?