Um 8 Uhr kommen die Schweine wieder (At 8 o’clock the pigs come back) is a silent film from Hans Totter, showing staff at the Strandbad Wannsee in Berlin cleaning in preparation for the first guests of the day to arrive. Strandbad Wannsee is a lakeside beach in Steglitz-Zehlendorf on the Western outskirts of the city […]
Fernmeldeturm Berlin-Schäferberg – Berlin’s other TV Tower
It seems that I have a thing for TV and radio transmission towers – I fell in love with the Fernsehturm in Alexanderplatz when I first came to Berlin and now I’m also a little bit obsessed with the Fernmeldeturm Berlin-Schäferberg. At 212 metres it is significantly shorter than the Fernsehturm but situated as it […]
Photos From My Phone – May
Here are my May highlights from Berlin as illustrated by the photos I took with my phone. Some of these photos have appeared in my Twitter feed, on my Facebook page or my Instagram account. Early in May I went back to Burger de Ville and tried the Funky Pommes, which come drizzled in Garlic […]
Sunset Over Wannsee
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 […]