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Temples of Drama and Music

21/02/2020 3 Comments

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The Fantastic Futurium

21/10/2019 No Comments

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Berlin’s Green Heart

02/09/2019 No Comments

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City Centre Sights

Making a Grand Entrance

19/07/2019 1 Comment

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Berlin Blast

23/05/2019 1 Comment

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Saturday NoonSong

29/03/2019 No Comments

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Category: Small Worlds

Saturday NoonSong

29/03/2019 No Comments Café Society Entertainment Music Architecture

Berlin loves Saturday lunchtime – there’s a sense that the weekend starts here. It wasn’t so long ago that the German school week didn’t finish ...

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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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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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Angel’s Pool – a city oasis

01/09/2017 No Comments Café Society History and Politics Small Worlds Cafés

Kreuzberg has always been a district on the edge – literally and metaphorically. When the city was divided, this West Berlin neighbourhood was enclosed ...

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A Multiverse of Courtyards

29/07/2017 No Comments Buy, Buy Berlin Café Society History and Politics Cafés

To explore the German capital, it is not enough to walk the length and breadth of its streets. If you want to catch the Berlin ...

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Railway Triangle Park

23/08/2016 No Comments Entertainment Small Worlds Entertainment

With its vast tracts of forests and parks, Berlin has always been a green metropolis. Now the city centre has a growing number of urban ...

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There is a green hill … not far away

18/04/2016 No Comments Café Society City Centre Sights Small Worlds

Viktoriapark in Kreuzberg is the perfect choice for a sunny spring afternoon. This pretty park comes complete with an impressive historic monument, an artificial waterfall, ...

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Putting Moabit on the map

25/09/2015 No Comments Café Society Small Worlds

If you look at a map of Berlin, the district of Moabit is pretty central. In the aerial photo below it takes up most of ...

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Sicilian fine dining – Berlin style

20/07/2015 1 Comment Café Society Small Worlds Dinner

For a really special evening meal try Grünfisch at 26, Gräfestrasse, in Kreuzberg. It is one of those wonderful restaurants hidden away in a big city, but ...

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Join the locals at Rüdi

02/08/2014 No Comments Small Worlds

Berlin’s vitality is best discovered in one of its Small Worlds (described in some detail in ‘Berlin Unwrapped’). The word often used to describe one ...

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