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: Georg Elser Memorial, Berlin
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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 …
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 with a monstrosity for a …
Travel: Mengenlehreuhr, Berlin
What time is it on the Mengenlehreuhr? This is surely the craziest clock we have ever seen, the Mengenlehreuhr (Berlin Clock or Berlin Uhr) claims …
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 Anhalter Bahnhof railway terminus once …
Berlin U-bahn Museum
In Berlin and looking for something a little bit different from World War Two and Cold War history? Then a visit to the Berlin U-Bahn …
Die Henne, Berlin
The best chicken in Berlin? Located a mere 15 feet from remains of the Berlin wall, Henne Alt-Berliner Wirtshaus, or Die Henne as it is …
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 what remains of the Berlin …
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 is a short wander from …
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 on top of street signs, …
Disgusting Food Museum Berlin
Search for the grossest food in the world Are you brave enough to visit what must be the smelliest and most repulsive museum we have …
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 to the days of East …
Travel: Fichte Bunker, Berlin
We joined a tour from Berlin Unterwelten to a nineteenth century gasometer in the Kreuzberg district called Fichte Bunker. Having been used as a gasometer, …
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 seems to hold another piece …
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 Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of …
Travel: The Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears)
Tearful partings at former East-West Berlin crossing point The Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears) is a former border crossing point between East and West Berlin and …