Just off Torstraße, Berlin’s buzzing boulevard, lies a bohemian outlet that can be seen as the German capital’s equivalent to Saville Row. It’s Berlin’s cool dandy version of the London tailoring institution. So if it is your desire to acquire some bespoke attire – this is your empire.
Envisage an old Chesterfield sofa in fine leather, warmly-lit, [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin has a multitude of excellent radio stations which cater to any number of tastes, from classical music, jazz to popular younger type of music,German talk-back shows and documentaries- all for a wide spectrum of listeners.
For native English speakers in Berlin, and yes we all speak some German and want to learn more – however there are times early in the morning, late [...] Continue Reading…
The only way is up!
Why not rent a bicycle and cycle down to the Upcycle Fashion Store in Berlin Mitte?! The outlet in Linienstraße 77 is the first of its kind in the capital. Upcycling being the ‘big brother’, no, better ‘big sista’ of recycling. http://upcycling-fashion.com/about/
“Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of [...] Continue Reading…
So after deciding to remain in Berlin, not too long ago, I decided that I have been really lacking in the whole German language aspect of my existence in this city. And by lacking, I meant that I absolutely lacked anything, even the absolute basics overall…
So I decided to enroll in some sort of German classes or [...] Continue Reading…
In recent years, as more and more of us feel the need to get away from the monotony of everyday life as often as we possibly can, and since the advent of low cost airlines has brought, to the lion’s share of us at least, the ability to travel further afield than we may have done in the [...] Continue Reading…
I opened this mornings Berlin Morgenpost, or more so that I opened todays Berlin Morgenpost website, and came across an article that startled me slightly. After a depressing and uphill struggle last year, from pretty much the first of December until sometime in February, against a seemingly never ending frost and snowfall which peaked at something [...] Continue Reading…
There is a new park in town. It was opened on the site of a former freight yard in Kreuzberg in early September. While the fairly new park on the former airport ground in Tempelhof is simply a large open space, „Ostpark“ has been carefully designed by renowned landscape architects in cooperation with local councillors and a [...] Continue Reading…
Visitors to Berlin would have to walk around with their eyes closed if they didn’t notice the city-states iconic bear coat-of-arms, which has been incorporated into a vast array of tourist trapping products… After all, nothing says Berlin like a bear printed onto a t-shirt made in China.
In medieval times, explorers would print pictures of dragons, serpents, [...] Continue Reading…
Hello all,
I’ve recently come to the conclusion from regular observation on Berlin’s bustling streets that perhaps the only and ultimate way of transport for any being is a bicycle or “Fahrrad” in German. I myself have a bike as my 1 and only means of bubbling about this vast, ever changing city, but through talking with friends [...] Continue Reading…
Part 1
Berlin is one of the most unique places on earth. Being a European capital you would expect the transport system to be well organised. Sadly it’s not, mostly as a result of the east/west split. This doesn’t take anything away from the beauty and excitement of the city, but it does mean one thing purely from a functional point of view: [...] Continue Reading…
Foto recieved from OTA-Blog reader Bernard M. from the UK who wrote -
Saw this ‘Death to Swabians’ graffiti at Kollwitzplatz in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg last week.
It is a joke – and for Swabians from the south of Germany even funnier!
It is like reading ‘Down with Alaskans’ in New York …………or ‘Death to the Scots’ in London!
However it was written in chalk – [...] Continue Reading…
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