Flohmarkt at Boxhagener Platz revisited

I have discovered this flea market last year thanks to some friends. I have yet to go visit all or even half of Berlin’s many flea markets. Besides this one at Boxhagener Platz, I had previously been to the one at Mauer Park several times and the one at Biesdorf. How would I describe these markets in one words?

Mauer Park: huge

Biesdorf: cheaper

Boxhagener Platz: cosy

If you happen to be in the lovely Ostkreuz-Frankfurter Tor area on a Sunday, pay a short visit to the flea market placed around the small park from between the apartment blocks. You will most certainly find something interesting to buy, be it a book (and the selection is wide), a dress, a photo camera or even a sofa or a chandelier.

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Shopping in Friedrichshain

Guest post by  Euan McTear from Oh-Berlin

There are some who leave Berlin with the impression of a dull and grey industrial city, with little to offer those who don’t love museums. Those people just didn’t do Berlin properly!

Source: La Citta Vita

There is always plenty to see and do in Berlin that you won’t ever read about in a guidebook. From coffee shops in Kreuzberg to music in Mitte, you must be walking blindfolded if you leave the city bored.

One popular way to spend an afternoon – that doesn’t appear in every guide book – is shopping in Berlin ’s Friedrichshain area in the east of the city. Locals will, of course, view this as nothing unusual or out of the ordinary – in fact browsing the little boutiques that line the area’s streets might even be seen as a cliché by some Berliners.

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