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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!

Why you need to visit the Olympiastadion even if you dont care about sports_
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Why you need to visit the Olympiastadion Berlin even if you don’t care about sports

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Olympiastadion Berlin is the largest stadium in Germany, and it has a, somewhat, dark history to it …

Far away from the tourists the flock Berlin there is a neighborhood called Kaulsdorf, and it’s there that you will find the lonely hippo known as Knautschke after a famous hippo that was born in the Berlin Zoo back in 1943. Knautschke has the entire Freibad Wernersee to himself but, when I was there, I didn’t see he enjoying much of it. Maybe it was cold; maybe it was the fact that the pool was frozen. Maybe he was just waiting for a time where he would have company, but this will, probably, never happen.
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Freibad Wernersee: The Abandoned Pool where a Hippo rests forever

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Far away from the tourists that flock to Berlin is a neighborhood called Kaulsdorf. There, you will …

The first time that 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 before. That visit was 2012, and it was then that my obsession with the Bierpinsel started. That day was the first time that I had seen anything as weird looking as that building, and it was, also, my first contact with Architectural Brutalism. After that building, it was love at first sight.
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The Bierpinsel: History and Future of Berlin’s Unusual Landmark

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The first time I went to Steglitz was to visit a Primark since they only had one shop in Berlin, and…

While I was browsing through these books, I realized that I have been to a lot of different places in Berlin and that, maybe, I should just write down my list of places to see in Berlin. Yeah, so this is my list of places to see in the beautiful German capital. These are the places that I bring my friends when they are visiting me; these are some of the places that I bring my family when they come here. These places are here because I like them. I might like the food there; I may like the experience of being there, I might like the history behind. And I believe that you should visit them.
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52 Places to See in Berlin: One for each week of the year

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A few weeks ago, I went to a bookstore to protect myself from the rain that was getting intense. Ins…

The Central Animal Laboratory of the Freie Universität is one of the best examples of Brutalist architecture in Berlin, and we visited the building at the end of December 2016 to see this strange looking building in the middle of Lichterfelde. It took us a while to find it, but once you see it, there is no way of ignoring it based on its monstrous appearance and the contrast with the area surrounding it.
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Mäusebunker: Exploring Berlin Architectural Brutalism in Lichterfelde

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The Central Animal Laboratory of the Freie Universität, known as the Mäusebunker, is one of Berlin's…

If you want to find Lenin in West-Berlin, you will have to walk between trucks and factories in the industrial park south of Neukölln. It feels like Lenin is left out of the city but, somehow, I believe that he is in the right place. Far away from the tourists and close to the people who work in Berlin.
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The Only Place to Find a Lenin Statue in West-Berlin

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If you want to find a Lenin statue in West Berlin, you must walk between trucks and factories in the…

Inside the 25hours Hotel Berlin, you will find almost 150 rooms in a modernist building from the 1950s. The building had seen better days in the past, and it was neglected for quite a while before Bikini-Haus came into existence with its shops, restaurants, and lifestyle. Bringing some new life into a part of Berlin that needed a breath of fresh air.
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Where to stay in West Berlin: My Stay at the Fantastic 25hours Hotel Berlin

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It’s not that usual for me to stay in a hotel in Berlin but, after I had heard my friend André from …

Like I said before, We Will Forget Soon is a fantastic book that documents a part of German history that most people don’t like to talk about but that needs to be told. Dario-Jacopo Laganá and Stefano Corso did a fantastic job with their book, and I believe that everybody that has some interest in this part of history needs to have this on their bookshelf.
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We Will Forget Soon: An Interview with Dario-Jacopo Laganá

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A couple of days ago, I sat down with Dario-Jacopo Laganá in Mitte to talk about We Will Forget Soon…

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