see also:

• travel for international conferences - visas and travel authorisations

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• SMACC 2017
  • pre-conference workshops: Monday June 26th 2017
  • conference at Tempodrom, Berlin Tues 27th-29th June 2017
    • 40min, 3.3km walk to Museum district via Checkpoint Charlie and Gendarmemarkt

• Etihad / Air Berlin / Virgin - 3hr stopover in Abu Dhabi, leaves Melb 1455hrs, arrives Abu Dhabi 2310, departs 0230 then arrives Berlin 0700hrs via Air Berlin next day giving 24hr duration
• options requiring 2 stops:
  • Singapore Airlines: requires flight to Frankfurt, Munich or Copenhagen then another to Berlin
  • Emirates: requires flight to Dusseldorf or Frankfurt then another to Berlin
  • Qantas: requires flight to London via Dubai then another 2hr flight back to Berlin via British Airways

• Berlin
  • see also: Gary's wiki - Berlin
  • The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor)
  • Museum Island
    • Old Museum (Altes Museum) - Crown Jewels and other royal treasures
    • New Museum (Neues Museum)
    • National Gallery
    • Bode Museum of antiquities
    • the Pergamon with its spectacular reconstructed historic buildings from the Middle East
    • Old National Gallery (Alte Nationalgalerie) with its fine collections of 19th-century paintings
  • Berlin Wall Memorial and Checkpoint Charlie
  • 17thC Charlottenburg Palace and Park - Berlin's oldest and largest Prussian estate
  • Unter den Linden - lime tree avenue
  • The Gendarmenmarkt - one of Berlin's largest squares, is dominated by three large historic buildings - the Konzerthaus, the French Cathedral (Französischer Dom), and the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom)
  • The Rebuilt Reichstag
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
  • The Nikolai Quarter - the heart of the old city
    • Knoblauch House, built in 1760 and representative of the former homes of the city's wealthy Jewish merchants and tradesmen
    • Ephraim Palace, built in the 1760s and housing exhibits relating to Berlin's rich artistic and cultural history (be sure to visit its exquisite grand staircase)
  • Grunewald Forest
  • Grosser Tiergarten and the Victory Column
  • East Side Gallery - remnant of Berlin wall covered in graffiti
  • Hamburger Bahnhof - contemporary art
  • Jewish Museum
  • wikipedia sights
• day trips from Berlin
  • Potsdam & Schloss Sanssouci, Dutch Quarter, and Babelsberg castle and park
  • Dresden & The Saxon Switzerland National Park
  • Hamburg
  • The Baltic Sea
  • historic small town of Brandenburg an der Havel
  • Frankfurt an der Oder on the Polish border 75min by train
  • Spree Forest, Lübbenau
  • Bayrischer Wald forest
  • grit of the Ruhr cities
  • the wild Nothern sea islands
• Prague
  • 4hrs by car via Dresden, 4.5hr by train, 50min flight
• near Munich
  • Landshuter Hochzeit 1475
    • medieval Bavarian landscape wedding festival on 4 weekends of 30th June to 23rd July 2017