You are a businessmen, tourist or someone else visiting Berlin? Here’s a section dedicated to the different issues that a foreigner could have to confront when moving to Berlin: some difficulties or differences may be due to habits, depending also on the country of origin and the accustomed culture. All the post were written by Anja,  our guestblogger from Berlin!

Anja has a master degree in Intarnational Managment obteined in Italy and she focused on everyday life situations to give people a hint to get along. This is meant to be a guide for Businessmen and tourists. She researched about expats in Berlin, social life, cultural activities, leisure time and the main events in the Germany’s capital city.

You just arrived, or want to inform yourself before your departure?

You should consider the following websites, blogs and fora:

http://www.internations.org/berlin-expats is a network and guide for expats in Berlin. You can find information about Expat life in Berlin and get advices and tips from people who already experienced your situation, get to know like-minded and join the organized events from InterNations. By the way, this community is based in 250 cities all over the world.

http://www.expat-blog.com/ is a blog, where you can find information bout almost everything that could be useful for you, such as forums about accommodation, health insurance, everyday life, jobs and a lot more. A resourceful domain is given by the Business directory where you get direct recommendations about every kind of interest: from health to education, restaurants, translators and a lot more. Unfortunately it hasn’t been worked out yet properly, but with your help and ideas it surely will be in the future!

A network that connects specifically parents is http://www.tobamo.de/ where you find everything around your child: playgroups, shops for children, and new playmates for your children.

You are looking for a specific place, restaurant, doctor or else what? View the yellow pages!  http://www.yellowpages.com/

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