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As a general rule Currywurst is a sausage smothered in ketchup with a sprinkling of curry powder but the best Currywurstbuden take things a step further. You could say that Curry & Chili on the corner of Osloer Strasse and Prinzenallee in Berlin Wedding has taken it several steps, as it lays claim to the title […]
Reina Lehmann has been serving Currywurst to the people of Berlin at Curry Baude, his Bude (kiosk) outside U-Bhf Gesundbrunnen, since 1989. Herr Lehmann prides himself on serving quality food – the sausages and sauces are all homemade with the finest ingredients. Currywurst is €1.50 and available with or without skin (mit oder ohne Darm) […]
Plötzensee is a small and pretty glacial lake in the residential area of Wedding in the north of Berlin with a Freibad (lido) on its western shore. I have Cihan to thank for suggesting I visit Plötzensee, and the wonderful afternoon and early evening I spent there last week. Smaller than many of Berlin’s more famous […]
French Street Artist JR began his Wrinkles of the City project in Cartegna in 2008 – since then, he has continued the theme in Shanghai, Los Angeles and Havana and this month, Berlin. As luck would have it, I spotted JR and his crew at work at Warschauer Strasse two weeks ago today. Having recognised […]
MTO is a French born-Berlin based Street Artist who produces incredible large-scale photorealistic pieces. Seeing his work on closed shop shutters makes getting up early to wander the streets of Kreuzberg worthwhile. This Spike LEE in Görlitzer Park is remarkably intact for its age. MTO painted a series of portraits of ‘Berlin Street Fighters’ – artists […]
The Christmas Markets season in Berlin is well underway now and I’ve been out and about trying to sample as many as possible. A friend recently told me that there are 60 Christmas Markets in Berlin this year. It’s no wonder then that Berlin is popular with tourists who plan holidays specifically to take in […]
Berlin has a plethora of Christmas Markets (Weihnachtsmärkte) but one market this month offers an alternative to the usual glut of Glühwein stands, Crépes sellers and Christmas gift stalls – so if you’ve had a kitsch overload head to Stattmarkt at Stattbad Wedding. The Stattbad is a former public baths (Stadtbad) and the Stattmarkt makes […]
I have added the photos of the Stolpersteine I have seen over the past week to the photo gallery here. This week’s Stolpersteine were memorials to: Sally Casper and Lene Casper (Chodowieckistrasse 8); Hans Samuel, Else Samuel and Gunter Samuel (Near corner of Utrechter Strasse). My first post about Stolpersteine gives more background about these memorials to the […]
