... as a "bet winner" in French bars and cafés....! Of course - KADEWE....! An enormous propoganda effort, fresh bread from Paris - daily - ... was available - fresh daily! Prices reasonable at the epoch, and our visits to KADEWE were weekly, and took up ALL of Saturday! A little tour around the whole place (and it was big) keeping an eye open ...

... Jahre alt. Ihre Haare war nicht sehrkurz lichtbraun. So sind wir mit meine junge Escortdame dann in die „alte“ BerlinCity (West) gefahren, d.h. zum Tauentzien in´s KaDeWe. Tauentzien in´s KaDeWe ist wirklich titanisch, vor allem die legendäre Lebensmittelabteilung im 6. Stock. Leider war es sehr voll, aber nach kurzem Warten ergatterten wir Plätze an einer ...

... I promised myself to go and explore new parts of Berlin so I took the tube to West Berlin - KaDeWe to be exact :) Hugh MALL - Harrolds Style, the first 5 floors took me about 6min ... beer + this week is a YOGA intensive training - Don't know what got into me but I HAD FUN! Sitting in the middle of KaDeWe with a big plate of potatoes and chees, a BEER and a SMILE giggling on the inside! I ...

A woman walks past a billboard featuring portraits of people and their recollections of the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, at Berlin's KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens) department store, rebaptised KaDeBe (Kaufhaus der Berliner, meaning Department store of Berliners instead of the usual Department store of the West) for the occasion, on November 5, 2009. Berlin has caught wall fever ahead of ...

... Jazz Quartet at the Concert Hall), and it's amazing how quickly the sense of limitation set in every time. For me the seminal moment of my first visit to Berlin was going to the big department store, KaDeWe, in the Kufurstendamm with my family. When we exited the U-Bahn, we went up a long escalator. As we neared the top, there was a sign to my left. The first word I saw, because I read it ...

... . They were the ones with the dull, shabby clothing. East German families would be standing in front of Woolworth's, noses pressed against the display window, in awe at the bounty of the West. And in the KaDeWe - Berlin's version of Harrod's - bug-eyed East Berliners rode the escalator to the food courts - which are truly magnificent - where they walked around in shock and awe. ...

... that "We Didn't Start the Fire" had come out only a few weeks before? I finally made it to Berlin for three days in July of 1992. We walked from the KaDeWe to Checkpoint Charlie - how many miles is that? Then we wandered around on the East German side for a while, visited a synagogue that was under renovation to repair the damage that had been neglected since the Holocaust, and ...

... Berliners and shared beers with them, before heading home, telling herself "the Wall will still be open in the morning." The next day, Merkel and her sister made a pilgrimage to the huge KaDeWe department store in the West, a temple of the western consumer society that had everything that was lacking in the East's command economy. Fair enough! It wasn’t as if the wall would be ...

... find commercial stores at Hackescher Markt (though Starbucks is gone, MUHA!), you find more small stores and art-stores etc in that area. I HATE Ku'Damm. I love the design stuff at KaDeWe, but I still prefer looking for stuff I really love in thrift-stores. Like these I found near Hackescher Markt! (But never bought! ). I love the street-art, I love the galleries, I love the squatters who ...

... every day, dinner at Brasserie Le Faubourg and special gifts from Barbour and Lacoste. You'll also get to enjoy a champagne reception and gift at the Bally boutique, a 10 percent discount at KaDeWe Berlin and 20 percent off at Galeries Lafayette -- with a personal shopping appointment that you can wash down with a glass of champagne. Top it off with a 35 euro voucher at Montblanc. Rates ...