For the first time since the middle of Queen Victoria’s reign, a non-Briton has been tapped as director of the British Museum. He’s Hartwig Fischer, director the Dresden’s City Art Collections. Ironically, the man he will replace is moving to Berlin…
Berlin’s long-delayed (it was supposed to open in 2008) new airport will now have a new delay: work was stopped today when it was determined
One of the few opportunities to stay at a top-flight hotel that’s been around as long as Heidelberg’s Hotel zum Ritter Sankt-George, or Hotel
With a long history of spy-versus-spy in the Cold War, and all sorts of espionage intrigue both before and since, it seems only fitting that Berlin should have a museum of espionage, and now it does, with the opening of Spy Museum Berlin tomorrow….
In a previous BLOG , we took a look at some of the world’s most popular art, and in a form you’ll not often find in museums, but can be found nearly everywhere: manhole covers.
As it was in 1984, now to serve refugees Berlin’s now-closed Tempelhof airport, famous for its role as the hub of the Cold War
On our last few trips, we’ve gotten in the habit of looking around for good eating/walking tours, which allow us to sample a variety of
In Hamburg’s Alster harbor area Photo: Butterfly1172 / Wikimedia While Berlin and Munich are the tourist meccas most often thought of
Lufthansa’s pilots, who struck intercontinental flights yesterday, have extended their strike for a second day. As a result, Lufthansa has cancelled over 1000 short and medium-haul flights affecting 140,000 passengers. The strike, which is the…
For the first time since the middle of Queen Victoria’s reign, a non-Briton has been tapped as director of the British Museum. He’s Hartwig Fischer, director the Dresden’s City Art Collections. Ironically, the man he will replace is moving to Berlin…
Berlin’s long-delayed (it was supposed to open in 2008) new airport will now have a new delay: work was stopped
One of the few opportunities to stay at a top-flight hotel that’s been around as long as Heidelberg’s Hotel
With a long history of spy-versus-spy in the Cold War, and all sorts of espionage intrigue both before and since, it seems only fitting that Berlin should have a museum of espionage, and now it does, with the opening of Spy Museum Berlin tomorrow….
In a previous BLOG , we took a look at some of the world’s most popular art, and in a form you’ll not often find in museums, but can be found nearly everywhere: manhole covers.
As it was in 1984, now to serve refugees Berlin’s now-closed Tempelhof airport, famous for its role as the
On our last few trips, we’ve gotten in the habit of looking around for good eating/walking tours, which allow us
In Hamburg’s Alster harbor area Photo: Butterfly1172 / Wikimedia While Berlin and Munich are the tourist
Lufthansa’s pilots, who struck intercontinental flights yesterday, have extended their strike for a second day. As a result, Lufthansa has cancelled over 1000 short and medium-haul flights affecting 140,000 passengers. The strike, which is the…