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Germany: Way More Than Just Beer & Sausages

Germany is an amazing country with so much to see and do! This page is about my travels through Germany, and I’m excited to share some of my favorite places with you.

We’ll start in Berlin, where we live, where you can explore iconic landmarks like the Brandenburg Gate and learn about the city’s fascinating history. Then, we’ll head to Dresden, a completely rebuilt city after World War II. You won’t believe how beautiful it is now!

Have you ever been to Potsdam? It’s home to the incredible Sanssouci Palace and the unique Einstein Tower. We’ll also visit the Bauhaus school in Dessau, a must-see for anyone interested in art and design. And if you’re looking for something different, we’ll check out the Mustard Museum in Cologne!

Come along with me on this virtual tour of Germany. You might be surprised by what you discover!

If you want to escape the bleak Berlin winter, you should head for the beaches and rainforests inside an aircraft hangar close to Berlin. This place is called Tropical Islands, and we spent some time there and wrote why you should visit this weird and wonderful place an hour’s drive south of the German capital.
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Tropical Islands: Swimming in a tropical paradise inside an aircraft hangar close to Berlin

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If you want to escape the bleak Berlin winter, you should head for the beaches and rainforests insid…

Most visitors to Berlin, even those curious about World War II history, miss one of the city’s greatest, most curious, and most impressive memorials, the Soviet War Memorial at Treptower Park. Treptower Park just might be the most impressive and important war memorial you never have heard of, demonstrating how a monument can both educate and facilitate reflection.
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Check out the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park. It’s epic!

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Most visitors to Berlin, even those curious about World War II history, miss one of the city’s great…

In a future Berlin, an Amish bartender works in a bar with his girlfriend, and that is the story behind Netflix’s almost hit called Mute. Directed by Duncan Jones, Mute shows a Berlin in 2052 that looks and feels like similar to the city where the director’s father, David Bowie, lived in the 1970s.
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Neon Skies and Glowing Forests: The Unconventional Future of Berlin in Netflix’s Mute

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In a future Berlin, an Amish bartender works in a bar with his girlfriend, and that is the story beh…

If you like Berlin techno, the web series After Hours might not be new for you. This documentary about Berlin’s techno scene premiered into the world back in 2009, on the long gone website 3min.de. After the site was gone, this music series disappeared from the internet but, this week, we found a page on Facebook that seems to be publishing all of the 12 episodes of the series into Youtube. Now, you can watch everything below!
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Berlin Techno: A Trip back in time to the Summer of 2009 with the web series After Hours

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If you like Berlin techno, the web series After Hours might not be new for you. This documentary abo…

The word Wandelism might sound weird to most people, and it happens for a reason. Wandelism is an amalgam made of the German word wandel, that means change and the English word vandalism. We visited the exhibition and you really need to see it with your own eyes. And before everything is gone!
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Wandelism: A Week Long Street Art Exhibition in Berlin Wilmersdorf

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For one week in 2018, Berlin had an urban art temple in Wilmersdorf called Wandelism. With more than…

The Landwehr Canal is one of our favorite places to spend warm Saturday afternoons, just walking along it. But, it can be a pretty exciting place to explore in winter as well since, from time to time, it freezes completely. A frozen Landwehr Canal is what happened on the last weekend of February 2018, and we went there to take pictures of everything.
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A Winter Walk around the Frozen Landwehr Canal in February 2018

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The Landwehr Canal is one of our favorite places to spend warm Saturday afternoons, just walking alo…

Back in 1999, local historian Christian Bormann found something that it wasn’t supposed to be lost. Nine years after demolition began, he found a piece of the Berlin Wall, somehow forgotten in the woods between a train station and a supermarket. More than 80 meters of the original Berlin Wall, built in 1961, is standing there, some with the V-shaped brackets that once had barbed wire on it. It’s hard to believe that something with this historical importance was lost and this is why we went there to see it with our own eyes.
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The Newly Found Original Berlin Wall that was lost in the woods in Schonholz

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In 1999, local historian Christian Bormann found something that wasn’t supposed to be lost. Nine yea…

Walled in! – The inner German border is a computer animation produced by Deutsche Welle together with the Berlin Wall Foundation to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall. The short movie describes in details the fortifications and the way that the border between East and West Germany was set up and it’s an excellent resource for those who want to know more about it.
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Understanding the Berlin Wall with Walled in! – The inner German border

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Walled in! The inner German border is a computer animation produced by Deutsche Welle and the Berlin…

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