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A new memorial to former US President Ronald Reagan was unveiled on 19 September 2012 at the corner of Strasse des 17 Juni in Berlin. Revealed 25 years after the original event, the plaque commemorates Reagan’s speech made in front of the Brandenburg Gate in which he implored Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”. […]
A new panorama by Yadegar Asisi opened in Berlin on Sunday 23 September and having recently seen his panorama at the Pergamon Museum with friends I was determined to go as soon as possible. The new Asisi Panorama, Die Mauer (The Wall) on Zimmerstrasse near Checkpoint Charlie, depicts a fictitious autumn day as seen from […]
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to take a VIP trip up the Fernsehturm in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz and to make it even more special I got to watch the sunset form Berlin’s highest vantage point. I had been out for the afternoon with my friend Bine doing the Schnitzeljagd (Scavenger Hunt) around […]
As soon as I heard that a large-scale map of Berlin was being created on the Schlossplatz, entitled City of Diversity (Stadt der Vielfalt), as part of the city’s 775th anniversary celebrations I was fascinated to see how it would turn out. Over the course of the next 9 days I went to the Schlossplatz 3 […]
With September providing a couple of unexpectedly sunny and warm days it seems appropriate to look back on my trip to the Botanischer Garten (Botanical Garden) in Berlin or Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem to use its full title. It seems like a lifetime ago but actually it has only been a month. The […]
On my last full day in Cardiff, while visiting my parents recently, I went to see one of my favourite local landmarks, Castell Coch (The Red Castle). Originally built in the 13th Century, the castle was in ruins when in 1871, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, reputedly the richest man in the […]
I’ve been meaning to check out the view from the Sun Terrace of the Park Inn Hotel on Alexanderplatz since @SandyInBerlin tweeted a link to a post about it on Just Travelous. So when Luci from In A Berlin Minute was scouting a location for her next video last week I joined her. The Sun […]
After spending the sunny part of Saturday being silly and getting sunburnt at Slow Travel Berlin’s sports day for adults, the Slowlympics, watching the sunset over the Wannsee from a small sandy beach was a relaxing way to end the day. Berlin has many lakes and on sunny summer days Berliners flock to them to […]
Berlin’s largest park, the Tiergarten, seemed like the perfect place to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon. So yesterday, with Berlin enjoying some much needed sunshine, that’s exactly where I went. And I wasn’t the only one. Some people chose a spot on the banks of the canal and were absorbed in a book, others lay […]
A tour of the disused Tempelhof Airport in Berlin offers a fascinating insight into the city’s history, an example of public space being put to good use, if only temporarily, and leaves unanswered questions about the area’s future. During Berlin Fashion Week I was lucky enough to get the chance to go to the Bread […]
