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Author: Penny Croucher

The PalaisPopulaire

30/10/2018 1 Comment City Centre Sights Cool Collections Galleries

Deutsche Bank has opened a new exhibition and event space on Unter den Linden in a seriously prime location next to the Staatsoper and opposite ...

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Berlin’s ‘Jewish Switzerland’

27/09/2018 2 Comments Café Society Cool Collections History and Politics Cafés

The story of Jewish Berlin will be forever tragically linked to the Holocaust. Nothing can change this statement, but today’s Berliners are still making efforts to ...

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Dream Garden Café

12/08/2018 No Comments Buy, Buy Berlin Café Society Cafés

It’s been a long hot summer in Berlin and cafés with shaded terraces and gardens are in high demand. A great location for fine al ...

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Romantic Art and Wanderlust

18/07/2018 1 Comment City Centre Sights Cool Collections Art

Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie is an exquitiste three-storey showcase of 19th Century European art. It is also one of the German capital’s iconic buildings and part of ...

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The Ku’damm’s grandest café

12/06/2018 1 Comment Café Society History and Politics Cafés

The long, grand boulevard of the Kurfürstendamm, referred to by Berliners as the Ku’damm, dates back to 1542 and takes its name from the Kurfürsten ...

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Meander through Moabit

18/05/2018 1 Comment History and Politics Small Worlds History

Surrounded by waterways, Moabit is a diverse neighbourhood to the north of the Tiergarten and the Reichstag. Barely off the main tourist track, it has ...

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The Beauty of Berlin

07/04/2018 3 Comments Cool Collections Art

Berlin is not among the prettiest cities in Europe, at least not on the surface. But it is undeniably one of the most fascinating. Much of its beauty lies entangled in ...

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Best lunch in Bergmannkiez

20/03/2018 2 Comments Café Society Small Worlds Cafés

Saturday was bitterly cold in Berlin, but with bright sunshine. For lunch, we headed off to the beautiful Bergmannkiez. In this gentrified neighbourhood of multi-cultural ...

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The Real Thing

07/02/2018 No Comments City Centre Sights Cool Collections History and Politics Art

Berlin has an incredible 175 museums to choose from.‘20 Berlin Museums That Will Blow Your Mind’, a list recently compiled by the website Hostelworld, is a ...

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Fontane’s Berlin

02/01/2018 3 Comments Books about Berlin City Centre Sights History and Politics Books

The emergence of Prussia as the dominant power in the new nation of Germany had a profound effect on 20th Century Europe. This first blog of ...

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