Places in Berlin

Berlin scares the hell out of me, a Parisian friend confesses on a weekend visit. Putain! Look how empty the

Kottbusser Tor, the centre of the ertswhile-radical SO36 district in Kreuzberg, is affectionately known as just ‘Kotti’. The surrounding kiez

(bear with us as we try to correct some formatting problems with this page)   I first visited the Jewish

Not far from Hermannplatz, the cusp of Kreuzberg and Neukölln, at Hasenheide 13, are two tunnels that lead to another

It’s a late summer day and we are riding our bikes around Dahlem, in the South of former West Berlin.

  Berliners are used to there being a great space off-limits between Mitte and Wedding, hidden behind a wall. The

Doppelkolbenpumpe. I was surprised I could find an online translation: double piston pump. Then what is one doing in a

The gates are now open to the Tempelhofer Feld, a public park on what was the airstrip of Tempelhof Airport