Konnopke’s Imbiss
Konnopke’s my local Imbiss (snack outlet) so I thought it was only right that I should go there for my first Currywurst of 2012 and start what I hope will be a series of posts about Currywurst in Berlin. Currywurst is the culinary pride of Berlin and beloved by its citizens. It is a pork sausage, […]
Street Art – July / August 2011
I’ve finally got around to uploading my Street Art photos from my holiday in Berlin 2011. A return to spending more time exploring the streets means that there’s more of a selection than 2010. You can see my favourites here but here’s a little taster:
Street Art – July / August 2010
I’ve looked back through my photos from my holiday in Berlin in 2010 and here are the pick of the Street Art photos. It turns out I spent a lot more time in museums and a lot less time on the street than I remember during that trip so I’ve decided not to have a […]
BIER
On my travels today I stumbled across a beer called BIER in a supermarket near Treptower Park. I read about this relatively new Berlin beer on Slow Travel Berlin the other day and was keen to try some. The non-brand was started by two Berliners who describe the concept on their website as a reaction […]
Street Art – July / August 2009
I’ve trawled through the many hundred photos I took during my first trip to Berlin and added what I think are the best of the Street Art photos to a gallery here. I intend to go through all my Berlin photos and create similar galleries for Street Art from 2010 and 2011 and will hopefully […]
A couple of hours well spent
I went to Kreuzberg today with my camera. I had spotted this well-known piece by Victor Ash on the way back to the U-Bahn station from yesterday’s Weihnachtsflowmarkt Nowkoelln at the Umspannwerk on Paul-Lincke Ufer but hadn’t taken the camera out with me. Unfortunately, by the time I arrived it had started to rain and […]
Teufelsberg (The Devil’s Mountain)
The first time I heard about the Cold War listening post on Teufelsberg (German for Devil’s Mountain) was watching the BBC ‘Berlin’ documentary by Matt Frei. Standing in the tower below one of the listening domes, with the canvas sheeting flapping about him in the wind, Frei explained the history of the listening post and the […]
Spreepark Plänterwald – Berlin’s Abandoned Theme Park
I first read about this abandoned Theme Park in Berlin on Berlin Unlike when I was checking out places to see before my visit to the city at the end of July 2011. I went to the Spreepark Plänterwald during that trip but there were lots of people there setting up for the Set Us On Fire festival […]
To blog or not to blog
I’ve been thinking about how best to record my experiences and my thoughts about my time in Berlin for a while now and whilst it’s easy to upload photos to Flickr or Facebook, write short and to the point comments on Twitter or write anything and everything in a diary, a blog seemed like the […]