We arrived in Berlin on Lufthansa flight 3019 in the early evening. A car service picked us up at Tegel Airport and transferred us to the industrial-chic Soho House Berlin in the Mitte District which is located in what use to be East Berlin -
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| The lobby seems barely to have been touched since the Berlin Wall fell, save for a few tongue-in-cheek enhancements like a foosball table and graffiti by Damien Hirst. (image courtesy of Soho House Berlin) |
After the very busy days that we just spent in Russia, exhilarating and exhausting in equal measures, we now had plans to slow down and take-it-easy. The Soho House is a private members’ club without pretension...a bit quirky, yet wonderfully relaxed. We booked a fully serviced apartment which became our refuge for the next four days...
