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I have added the photos of the Stolpersteine I have seen over the past week to the photo gallery here. The Stolpersteine I saw were dedicated to: Max Kessler, Philipp Kessler, Rosalie Kessler, Max Sommerfeld and Johanna Schönberg (Friedrichstrasse 106); Hannah Karminski (Oranienburger Strasse 22); Georg Hoenich and Ruth Hoenich (Rigaer Strasse 30); Johanna Lichtenstein (Samariterstrasse 29). My first post […]
Jimmy C (real name James Cochran) is a Street Artist from Adelaide, Australia, though he feels equally at home in France. Taking inspiration from Aboriginal dot paintings he has developed a painting style using drips and has shown in galleries as well as leaving many of his pieces in the streets. All three of the […]
It has been a while since I blogged about eating Currywurst but rest assured I haven’t fallen out of love with this Berlin snack. I’ve just been less adventurous for a while and stuck to some familiar haunts and then when I did try somewhere new I got caught up with some other posts. I […]
I realise that the title is Denglish – it’s not grammatically correct in German and doesn’t make sense in English (and the name AliCé is neither) – but I couldn’t resist it. Good Friday really lived up to its name for me. I walked around Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg taking photographs of the incredible art of […]
I spotted these two pieces by C215 on Frankfurter Allee on a Street Art spotting mission in Friedrichshain. C215 (real name Christian Guémy) is a Parisian street artist. He favours portraits in his stencils, which often depict those marginalised by society. Luckily for me he likes putting up work in Berlin and I’ve seen a […]
I was searching the web for Street Art on Sunday and came across an incredible photo of a piece by the Granada-based artist El Niño de las Pinturas on the blog El Bueno, El Feo y El Malo. I commented on the stunning photograph and the quality of the art and said that I would […]
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 […]
