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Berlin Airlift
Berlin airlift cut off from the West The Berlin Airlift lasted 323 days and was one of the first major [Read more]
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Travel: Victory Column (Siegsaule), Berlin
A victorious sight in Berlin This glorious roundabout in Berlin’s Tierpark not far from Brandenburg Gate is actually the Victory [Read more]
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Berlin Gas Light Museum
Berlin’s illuminating museum A short wander from the Tiergarten S-Bahn station (and the Zoologischer Garden station and Berlin Zoo!) is [Read more]
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Travel: Siemensstadt – Discarded S-Bahn
Discarded S-Bahn line We had been meaning to discover a bit more of this end of Berlin for a while. [Read more]
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Travel: Teufelsberg, Berlin
Teufelsberg – Abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin’s “Devil’s Mountain Deep within the Grunewald forest in West Berlin is an [Read more]
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Travel: Le Corbusier in Berlin
Brutalist architecture in Berlin by Le Corbusier For years I thought brutalist architecture was awful. I grew up in Cumbernauld [Read more]
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Travel: Mengenlehreuhr, Berlin
What time is it on the Mengenlehreuhr? This is surely the craziest clock we have ever seen, the Mengenlehreuhr (Berlin [Read more]
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Anhalter Bahnhof, former railway station, Berlin
Anhalter Bahnhof, once the largest railway station in Germany Southeast of the busy Potsdamer Platz is the quieter area where [Read more]
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Berlin U-bahn Museum
In Berlin and looking for something a little bit different from World War Two and Cold War history? Then a [Read more]
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Die Henne, Berlin
The best chicken in Berlin? Located a mere 15 feet from remains of the Berlin wall, Henne Alt-Berliner Wirtshaus, or [Read more]
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Konrad Schumann – the wall jumper
The iconic jump west Hans Konrad Schumann will possibly forever be remembered as the East German border guard who escaped [Read more]
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Bernauer Strasse Berlin Wall Memorial
Bernauer Strasse Berlin Wall Memorial (Berliner Mauer Gedenkstaette) In between the areas of Gesundbrunnen and Mitte is Bernauer Strasse and [Read more]
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Märchenbrunnen – fountain of fairy tales in Berlin
Fountain of Fairy Tales The Märchenbrunnen “fountain of fairy tales” is located in the Volkspark Friedrichshain in Berlin. The park [Read more]
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Street Yoga Figures of Berlin
Street sign figures of Berlin If you have visited Berlin you may have spotted the little cork figures doing yoga [Read more]
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Disgusting Food Museum Berlin
Search for the grossest food in the world Are you brave enough to visit what must be the smelliest and [Read more]
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Food: Taste the GDR at Alain Snack, Berlin
Currywurst or Ketwurst – GDR snack time at Alain Snack Alain’s Snack Bar in Prenzlauer Berg not only dates back [Read more]
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Travel: Fichte Bunker, Berlin
We joined a tour from Berlin Unterwelten to a nineteenth century gasometer in the Kreuzberg district called Fichte Bunker. Having [Read more]
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Berlin Public Transport Guide
Guide to public transport in Berlin Berlin has an integrated public transport network that works amazingly well, most of the [Read more]
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World War Two Sites in Berlin
World War Two Sites in Berlin It seems that no other city has had a roller coaster-like Berlin. Each street [Read more]
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Where was the Netflix series Dark filmed?
Dark filming locations in Germany We recently discovered the filming locations for Netflix series’ The Queen’s Gambit and Dogs of [Read more]
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Filming locations for The Queen’s Gambit
Where was The Queen’s Gambit filmed? Netflix has grabbed audiences with The Queen’s Gambit, which is an adaptation of [Read more]
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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Oranienburg, Berlin
Concentration camp near Berlin Visiting anywhere in Europe brings you near to remains of World War Two. In Germany, these [Read more]
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Travel: Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin
Achtung Charlie Checkpoint Charlie is surely the best-known crossing point between East and West Berlin. But is it worth visiting? [Read more]
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Travel: The Spree Tunnel, Berlin
Walking under the river in Berlin (pub crawl optional) Many cities have pedestrian tunnels under their main rivers, like our [Read more]