Seasonal Berlin

Berlin will, of course, be running a temperature for a few weeks from the middle of June 2006 – the prognosis is World Cup fever. But there will also be plenty of summer entertainment to take visitors’ minds off the football. Festivals include the Karneval der Kulturen (2-5 June, 6097 7022, www.karneval-berlin.de), a celebration of Berlin’s multicultural diversity centring on a parade with dozens of floats and hundreds of musicians, the techno carnaval Love Parade (www.love parade.de, 15 July) and Christopher Street Day Parade (22 July, 2362 8632, www.csd-berlin.de), a flamboyant gay street party that commemorates the Stonewall Riots. Classical music fans shouldn’t miss the Berlin Philharmonie at the Waldbühne (18 June, Waldbühne, Am Glockenturm, Charlottenburg, 01805 332 433, www.berlin-philharmonic.com), an end of season open-air concert that sees more than 20,000 Berliners light up an atmospheric ‘forest theatre’ with candles once darkness falls.

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