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Title: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: mark smyth on December 30, 2009, 10:27:39 PM: Anyone on the forum living in or close to Berlin?

I have been asked to give a lecture during a four day common swift, Apus apus, conference. I would like to see some gardens or meet forum members.
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: mark smyth on February 05, 2010, 11:40:58 PM: anyone?
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: Onion on February 07, 2010, 07:48:06 PM: Sorry Mark,

more than 500 km far from Berlin. You have their the famous garden of Berlin-Dahlem with the new tropical house and the botanic garden in Potsdam.
I think we have a thread about a garden in Berlin last summer ?

Uli
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: mark smyth on February 07, 2010, 07:55:51 PM: an excellent tip thank you. I am staying beside Templehof on Mainzer Strabe
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: Maggi Young on February 07, 2010, 08:07:36 PM: Quote
I think we have a thread about a garden in Berlin last summer ?

This is the thread:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3854.0
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: Ulla Hansson on February 07, 2010, 10:43:57 PM: It is a great plant market in the Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dalhem 10-11 April 9.00-18.00.
Ulla
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: mark smyth on February 07, 2010, 10:55:54 PM: oh no that's all I need to hear. Maybe I can miss the lectures on 10th. What kind of plants are available?
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: Onion on February 08, 2010, 07:39:54 PM: Mark,
all you need to get a poor man. Alpines, herbs, bulbs, shrubs, carnivorous plants etc. . A friend of mine sell shrubs in the last 4 years. He think this is one of the best "plant markets" in Germany.
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: Onion on February 08, 2010, 07:52:39 PM: Mark,

here is the link to Berliner Staudenmarkt.

http://www.bgbm.org/BGBM/pr/new/April.htm
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: mark smyth on April 12, 2010, 04:39:14 PM: all went well and unfortunately no time to escape. The lectures over ran every day with Saturday over running by two hours.

The weather was cold and only 5c the day we left. Arriving home I hear it was 18C

Fabulous and cheap food. Lunch every day was Turkish. Breakfast at a close by sandwich shop was only 8Euro for four people. We ate different every night. Italian, French, Turkish. All much cheaper than the UK
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 13, 2010, 10:47:26 PM: Sounds like you've had a brilliant trip Mark. Now to await the swift return!
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: mark smyth on April 14, 2010, 10:22:43 AM: Yesterday I watched the sky too much. April 17th last year was the first swift seen in N Ireland but April 25th when I had the first back at my colony. If only they had telephones they could rush here for the weather

I heard today that 14 countries were represented at the meeting. The next meeting will be in 2012 in Eliat, Israel at the university

9 swifts are due to return to Sweden in mid May carrying geolocaters. A geolocater http://www.birdtracker.co.uk/index.html (http://www.birdtracker.co.uk/index.html) weighing .6g and 20x8x3mm is carried by the swifts like a backpack. The device records sunrise and sunset every day. If/when the birds return they will be caught and have the geolocater taken off and the data removed. It will show where the swift has been all year. Because it is so small it is only accurate to 70-100 miles / 100-150km but this is good enough to show how it travelled to and from south Africa
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: mark smyth on April 17, 2010, 03:19:39 PM: Chocolate prices in Germany are way too high. Why? Twix/Mars in the UK c50p. In Germany 1.50!
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 17, 2010, 04:43:39 PM: I wouldn't go to Germany and buy a Twix or a Mars bar when you can get real chocolate.
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: Gerdk on April 17, 2010, 06:47:25 PM: Quote from: Anthony Darby on April 17, 2010, 04:43:39 PM
I wouldn't go to Germany and buy a Twix or a Mars bar when you can get real chocolate.

Much better if you try German beer - you'll feel also happy after tasting it!
;D

Gerd
Title: Re: Berlin - lecture visit April 7-11th 2010
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 17, 2010, 07:26:53 PM: Quote from: Gerdk on April 17, 2010, 06:47:25 PM

Much better if you try German beer - you'll feel also happy after tasting it!
;D

Gerd
I'm not a lager drinker, but have had many an enjoyable time drinking beer in various parts of Germany and have 6 pottery tankards including a 1 litre tankard from the ancient brewery of Löwenbräu, Buttenheim on top of my book shelves.