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Anniversaries and Birthdays have always seemed to me to be a time for reflection and as I will be celebrating 1 year in Berlin tomorrow, this seems like the perfect time to reflect on what I have seen and done here. My original intention was that I would be able to create a Berlin Top […]
The 8th annual Berlin Festival of Lights is took place 10 – 21 October 2012. During the festival, a number of Berlin’s most famous landmarks and some lesser known buildings were transformed with light installations, laser animations and video projections. I started my tour of the Festival of Lights locations on Saturday in the Gendarmenmarkt, which I chose […]
When I saw the posters advertising the Stroke Urban Art Fair 2012 around town I knew straight away that I would enjoy it. After all, Berlin’s thriving Street Art scene is the reason I was drawn to the city in the first place. Running over 4 days at the Postbahnhof in Berlin, Stroke attracted a […]
A little over a week ago, Berlin hosted the 16th International Berlin Beer Festival (Internationales Berliner Bierfestival) with the theme ‘Beers of the region of the Baltic Sea’. In 2011 the festival set a Guinness World Record for the longest beer garden in the world at 1,820 metres. This year the Beer Mile (sic) was 2.2 […]
As the Mädels With A Microphone know Berliners love a good protest. If it’s not Cuts to Solar Power subsidies, it’s increases in music performance fees. This evening at the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin a crowd gathered to protest against changes to GEMA (the music artists representative group in Germany) fees. Anyone who has tried to […]
Saturday’s Christopher Street Day Parade (Gay Pride) in Berlin was a riot of colour – apt as the parade was named to commemorate the Stonewall Riots in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1969. The clashes were a reaction to a police raid on The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street and marked a turning point in […]
Yesterday I had my first experience of the Karneval der Kulturen (Carnival of Cultures) parade in Berlin. And what an experience it was. The streets were thronging with people and alive with colour. The Karneval der Kulturen is an opportunity for Berlin to celebrate the diversity of its people and many nations and ethnic groups […]
There was a demonstration in progress when I was walking near the Brandenburg Gate yesterday. From what I could gather from the placards being waved and this article on the website of Berlin newspaper, Beliner Morgenpost, the issue seems to be proposed cuts in funding for Solar Energy production, including cuts in subsidies for Solar […]
Last night was a night of firsts for me. My first gig in Berlin. The first time I have gone to a gig alone. My first First Aid Kit gig. Sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg are from Stockholm, though you wouldn’t know they are Swedish to hear them sing or talk. It’s almost as if […]
By chance, I spotted a poster whilst out shopping advertising a performance and signing by Ed Sheeran at the Alexa Shopping Mall later in the day. I popped back with my camera to enjoy the music and get a few shots. Sheeran played four songs: Give Me Love; The A Team; Lego House and You […]
