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The sun was shining on Berlin yesterday and despite a slight drop in the temperature I still thought it was a perfect day to explore one of Berlin’s many parks. I’ve passed Volkspark Friedrichshain on the tram a number of times and spotted joggers making their way into, around or out of it but yesterday […]
The influence of Soviet-style architecture on DDR-era construction in East Berlin is plain to see on Karl-Marx-Allee, which runs from Alexanderplatz to Frankfurter Tor. Yesterday, I set out from home with no plan other than to make the most of the sun and get a bit of fresh air. I just wandered. And I ended […]
I have added the photos of the Stolpersteine I saw in Berlin in the last week to the gallery here. The Stolpersteine I saw were dedicated to: Ernst Siegfried Holz, Willy Holz, Herbert Leo Holz and Lieselotte Holz (Rochstrasse 1); Dr Julius Blumenthal (Oranienburger Strasse 1); Gottfried Hollander and Lotty Hollander (Oranienburger Strasse 1-3); Philip Kozower, Gisela Kozower, Alice Kozower, […]
Urban Outfitters opened a second Berlin store on the Ku’damm yesterday and they had a party. This store opened with a bit more fanfare than the Berlin Mitte store on Weinmeisterstrasse in January. On the ground floor there was a bar handing out bottles of Estrella beer and on the first floor there was a […]
There is certainly no sugar-coating in the name of Berlin’s monument to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe consists of 2711 concrete blocks (Field of Stelae) that cover an area of 19,000 square metres between Brandenberger Tor (the Brandenburg Gate) and Potsdamer Platz. Designed by Peter Eisenman […]
I’ve had friends staying the last few days and wanting to send them off to the airport with full stomachs, I took them to one of my favourite Berlin lunch spots, Dolores. We went to the restaurant on Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse in Mitte but there is another branch on Bayreuther Strasse, near the KaDeWe. The monster-size Burritos […]
As usual, I have added the photos of the Stolpersteine I saw in Berlin this week to the gallery here. These brass cobbles were dedicated to: Reisel Johanna Aron and Berl Lot Aron (Choriner Strasse 53); and Arthur Kroner, Meta Kroner and Charlotte Kroner (Friedrichstrasse 55). My first post about Stolpersteine gives more background about these memorials to […]
These two were having great fun handing out Free Hugs on Alexanderplatz in Berlin yesterday.
I’ve just got around to editing my Street Art photos from February and created a gallery for the pick of them here. All the photos from my ‘A Berlin Hof Spot’ post are included and some extras from that Hof near Café Cinema. Is it me or does this C215 piece bear a resemblance to the clown I […]
Berlin is blessed (in my opinion) with a proliferation of high quality street art and one street art courtyard in Mitte is particularly well decorated. And one place to see plenty of it in a concentrated area is the Hof (courtyard) next to Café Cinema at Rosenthaler Straße 39, a short stroll from Hackescher Markt […]
