Complete Guide to Visiting Peacock Island in Wannsee Peacock Island, known in German as Pfaueninsel, is one of Berlin’s most unusual day-trip destinations. Located on …
Peacock Island Berlin: Complete Pfaueninsel Guide
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House of the Wannsee Conference Berlin Visitor Guide (2026)
Complete Guide to Visiting the House of the Wannsee Conference, Berlin The House of the Wannsee Conference (Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz) is one of the most …
Harry Maitey: The Hawaiian Who Lived on Peacock Island
Harry Maitey: The Hawaiian Who Ended Up on Berlin’s Peacock Island It’s the 1820’s and you are teenager leaving Hawaii and sailing halfway around the …
How to Visit the David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin
David Hasselhoff Museum Berlin: a guide to the city’s quirkiest attraction Berlin is filled with world-class museums, powerful memorials and historic landmarks. It is also …
Metzer Eck Berlin Review: Traditional German Pub & Restaurant
Metzer Eck Berlin Review – One of Berlin’s Oldest Traditional Pubs If you’re searching for an authentic Berlin pub where locals still gather over beer …
Lufthansa Exhibition Opens at Berlin Tempelhof Airport
Lufthansa exhibition opens at Berlin Tempelhof Airport A new exhibition exploring the early history of Lufthansa has opened at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, one of the …
Dicke Wirtin Berlin Review: Traditional German Food in Charlottenburg
Dicke Wirtin Berlin Review: Traditional German Food in Charlottenburg If you are looking for an authentic Berlin pub serving hearty German food, walls packed with …
European Sleeper marks successful launch of Paris – Brussels – Berlin night train
European Sleeper marks successful launch of Paris – Brussels – Berlin night train with first departure from Paris European Sleeper marked the launch of its …
Inside a former KGB Prison Potsdam
Former KGB Prison Potsdam – Gedenk-und Begegnungsstätte Leistikowstraße, Potsdam You can’t say that Berlin isn’t filled with history. From the Third Reich through to the …
Die Tagnung GDR Bar in Berlin
Die Tagung, back in the GDR! The area around Simon-Dach-Strasse in East Berlin is filled with places to hangout and Die Tagnung has pulled us …
Günter Litfin Memorial Berlin
Memorial to the first person shot and killed at the Berlin Wall Gunter Litfin was the first person to be shot and killed at the …
Fruhstuck 3000 Berlin
Brunching in Berlin Fruhstuck 3000 is in the North of Shoneberg within walking distance of Nollendorfplatz U bahn (lines 1,2,3,4 and 12) and Bulowstrasse U …
Travel: Berlin Unterwelten Humboldthain Flak Tower
Mrs Foodie has nagged, OK hinted at a tour with Berlin Unterwelten for so long, so we got ourselves organised and booked two tours! Our …
The Schwerbelastungskörper “heavy load-exerting body” Berlin
The Schwerbelastungskörper “heavy load-exerting body” Berlin, a remnant of National Socialist urban planning The Schwerbelastungskörper (German: “heavy load-exerting body“) is a large concrete cylinder located …
Travel: Georg Elser Memorial, Berlin
A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler The Georg Elser Memorial in Berlin is a little different from normal memorials, this one is …
Travel: Stand by Me Tree, Berlin
Stand by me in Berlin Have you ever loved a song so much that you’d carve it into a tree? Well someone did within Berlin’s …
Travel: Soviet War Memorial Tiergarten
Soviet War Memorial Tiergarten (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal im Tiergarten) The Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten is one of three Soviet war memorials in Berlin. The …
Tiergarten Quelle, Berlin
Being a tourist in Berlin is thirsty work and one place we have enjoyed visiting, which we would like to recommend is Tiergarten Quelle. Underneath …
Soviet War Memorial, Treptower Park, Berlin
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin In Berlin’s Treptower Park you will find a Soviet War Memorial designed by the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate …
Berlin Airlift
Berlin airlift cut off from the West The Berlin Airlift lasted 323 days and was one of the first major international crises of the Cold …
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 Column or Siegsaule a monument …
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 a collection of several gas …
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. So when you have good …
Travel: Teufelsberg, Berlin
Teufelsberg – Abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin’s “Devil’s Mountain Deep within the Grunewald forest in West Berlin is an abandoned NSA field station which sits on …