What to do and Where to go in Berlin

Since we moved to Berlin early in 2012, we have been researching how this city used to look like before all the wars. This week, we stumbled upon this interesting short movie that shows Berlin streets between 1900 and 1914, a little before the First World War.

<div class="aligncenter"><!– Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools –> <div class="addthis_native_toolbox"></div></div> On July 21, 1990, Roger Waters came together with a large list of guest artists and performed Pink Floyd’s The Wall as a …

You may not know his name but I’m pretty sure you have seen the man on the pictures here. If you have been to Berlin a few times and decided to enjoy the amazing nightlife this city has to offer you have come across Komet Bernhard at least once. His is less than a symbol… Read More »What to do a…

Since I moved to Berlin in 2012, I started using a bike as my main mode of transportation and, for most of the time, I love it. For those watching from the bike lanes, Berlin might seem like a piece of heaven for bikes. But I don’t believe cycling in Berlin is even close to… Read More »What to do and …

Berlin is a rich city for graffiti and street art, and it is fitting to see that it will host the first museum dedicated to this art form in Germany. Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art will open its doors in 2017 in Schöneberg as the Berlin Street Art Museum, and we know it… Read More »Wha…

It has been happening in early September for almost a decade yet most people don’t even know it exists. We are talking about Popraci, Berlin’s toughest race, where you have to roll huge straw bale rolls around Rixdorf as fast as you can. Yes, this is for real and we were there to tell you… Read More »…

There are no trains at the Güterbahnhof Pankow-Heinersdorf, but they used to come here a lot before somebody figured out how to make them drive in the other direction. Yes, this place was built to allow trains to go in the other direction, and it is one of the only remaining buildings with this history… Rea…

<div class="aligncenter"><!– Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools –> <div class="addthis_native_toolbox"></div></div> I met Mike Savage back in late 2013 at his first job here in Berlin. I remember talking to him about weird bands, beer an…