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Category: City Centre Sights

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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Checkpoint Charlie Then and Now

28/11/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

What’s in a name? In the case of Checkpoint Charlie, with its personification of a notorious border crossing at the Berlin Wall, it immediately conjures ...

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The Berlin Wall Revisited

09/11/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

The Berlin Wall Revisited – Today, 9th November 2017, is the 28th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin has now been reunited ...

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Berlin Calling – from the Radioeins Rooflounge

18/09/2017 1 Comment Café Society City Centre Sights Cafés

Heavenly views of Berlin are always a treat and in summer it seems as if every hotel in the city is competing to have the coolest ...

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My Berlin

06/09/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights City Sights

I was recently interviewed by the magazine ‘Where Berlin’ which is circulated to a number of hotels and available to pick up at Tegel and ...

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Underneath the Arches

09/06/2017 No Comments Café Society City Centre Sights Cafés

I am in love with Berlin’s elevated railways. These lines are such a joy to ride for the wonderful urban views they offer. The Berlin ...

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My Perfect Berlin Easter Weekend

14/04/2017 No Comments Café Society City Centre Sights Entertainment Tours

The ‘Exberliner’, the hip monthly magazine for the English-speaking community in Berlin (currently estimated at 50,000), has been going since 2002. Apart from cultural listings, ...

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Historic Crossing Point

03/04/2017 1 Comment City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

Berlin is best known for its 20th Century history and any mention of the word ‘crossing point’ summons up visions of Checkpoint Charlie, the Glienicke ...

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A Poignant Wilderness

26/06/2016 No Comments City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

The Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee is one of the largest and most beautiful Jewish cemeteries in Europe. Earlier this month, I was strolling along its ...

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Putting on the Ritz – at Berlin’s Admiralspalast

29/05/2016 No Comments City Centre Sights Entertainment History and Politics

A night out at the Admiralspalast The words ‘Berlin’ and ‘cabaret’ are synonymous. The songs from the 1920s and 1930s echo down the years, and capture ...

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