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 …
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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 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 …
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 to West Germany during the …
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, …
Berlin Public Transport Guide
Guide to public transport in Berlin Berlin has an integrated public transport network that works amazingly well, most of the time. In the city, you …
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 …
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 Berlin, and now Dark has introduced …
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 …
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 sites are generally named “Gedenksätte” …
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? History The name comes from …
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 home town of Glasgow, London …