Another excellent airbnb experience - our third. The photos don't do justice to Silvano's lovely apartment. We stayed for a week and were sorry to leave. When we next return to Berlin - which hopefully we will in the next year or two - it will be our first choice.

It is a little way out of the centre but after our stays in Brooklyn and Amsterdam we have come to regard that as an advantage, provided the public transport is good. In Berlin it is very good and puts London to shame. We didn't get to meet Silvano but he kept in touch via email. His charming friend and colleague Sara was there to greet us and see us off.