Berlin is a city that has so much to offer, making it impossible to create a definitive “top 10” list. Whether you’re on a whirlwind tour or just want to hit the highlights, these are the articles I wrote about where to go and what to do in Berlin:
Exploring Berlin City West in 48 Hours of Art, Design and Great Food
In early 2017, I decided to get a room at the 25 Hours Hotel and explore Berlin City West, this is how I made this 48 hours guide to it.
If Walls Could Talk… — A Meat Mural by Marcus Haas where the Berlin Wall used to be
If you walk along where the Berlin Wall used to be around Bernauer Strasse, you will see a meat mural that might be our favorite street art piece in Berlin. This enormous painting shows the side of buildings cut by a large knife, with the city's shape represented in some white tissue.
The Best Photo Spots in Berlin: Where to take pictures in the German Capital
If you’re like us, you travel with a camera and carry it all the time. With smartphones becoming cheaper, everybody takes a camera, but we only see selfies everywhere. Because of all this, it became hard to surprise somebody with travel pictures since most people only go to the same places and take the same…&nbs…
Why you need to visit the Olympiastadion Berlin even if you don’t care about sports
Olympiastadion Berlin is the largest stadium in Germany, and it has a, somewhat, dark history to it since it was originally built for the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. That one where the Nazi Party decided to show what they were all about when it came to propaganda. Nowadays, the stadium is the home ground of…&nb…
Freibad Wernersee: The Abandoned Pool where a Hippo rests forever
Far away from the tourists that flock to Berlin is a neighborhood called Kaulsdorf. There, you will find the lonely hippo, Knautschke, after a famous hippo born in the Berlin Zoo in 1943. Knautschke has the entire Freibad Wernersee to himself, but I didn’t see him enjoying much of it when I was there. Maybe…&nbs…
Bierpinsel – Another Crazy Example of Architectural Brutalism in Berlin
The first time I went to Steglitz was to visit a Primark since they only had one shop in Berlin, and the shop was in this part of the city that I had never been to before. That visit was in 2012, and it was then that my obsession with the Bierpinsel started.
52 Places to See in Berlin: One for each week of the year
A few weeks ago, I went to a bookstore to protect myself from the rain that was getting intense. Inside, there was an entire section with books about Berlin. Most of them are the same places to see in Berlin. Most of these places are common sense for travelers. Everybody knows them, and most books… Read Mor…
Mäusebunker: Exploring Berlin Architectural Brutalism in Lichterfelde
The Central Animal Laboratory of the Freie Universität, known as the Mäusebunker, is one of Berlin's best examples of Brutalist architecture. We visited the building at the end of December 2016 to see this strange-looking structure in the middle of Lichterfelde.