Long time ago I always thought about Berlin as a particularly unpleasant city, Moscow Lite, so to say. Everything big, intimidating, towering architecture, victory arches around every corner and military marches every weekend with Carl Orff's Carmina Burana playing from speakers. Tall, blonde people with blue eyes and heads held up high, looking down on everyone else. Don't blame me: I was young and naïve. When I first visited Berlin I was baffled, it felt like this beautiful, huge garden was seemingly growing out of grey concrete. Germany's capital became a wondrous place on earth for all kinds of people and an economic powerhouse. There are a few things you just need to check off when in Berlin; the Holocaust Memorial, the Brandenburg Gate, and the Reichstag. In case you don't care all ...