Posts Tagged ‘Berlin’
Winter in Berlin [Photo Gallery]
![Winter in Berlin [Photo Gallery]](http://www.slowtravelberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wm_039-300x200.jpg "Winter in Berlin [Photo Gallery]")
We asked our readers for their best photos of Berlin in winter. Here are our picks of their pics...
The Dummkopf’s Guide to Subletting
James Glazebrook of Überlin gives us his tips on subletting in Berlin... When you arrive in Berlin, chances are you’ll end up in a flatshare or a sublet. While we’ve no experience of the former, having too many things (and cats) to squeeze into a single room, we can impart some wisdom about the latter. On paper subletting is straightforward – you pays your money (bills included) and move into an apartment which is set up with everything you’ll need for your first few months in [...]
Fête de la Musique
Paul Sullivan chats to the local organisers of the famous Fête de la Musique event... On June 21st, Berliners will once again celebrate the longest day of the year and the official beginning of summer with a city-wide music festival, the Fete de la Musique. With performances on over 80 open-air stages, the street festival offers everything from reggae and jazz, to hip hop, electronic music and klezmer. Some of the city's larger venues, like the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the [...]
Escape From Berlin by Catherine Klein
A tense and personal portrait of a Berlin torn apart by war… As anyone who has ever visited or lived in Berlin knows, it’s impossible not to stumble across the Second World War at some point. Its ghostly aura seeps through the city like an invisible fog, filling empty concrete bunkers, haunting memorials, cleaving to certain architecture. It’s especially apparent in the spaces where the places used to be. While we tend to be well acquainted with the facts of the war (the dates, the [...]
Kollwitzplatz Farmers Market
A popular weekly farmers market in Prenzlauer Berg's pretty Kollwitzplatz Kollwitzplatz is today one of Prenzlauer Berg’s best-known and (arguably) most attractive squares. Named after the famed artist Käthe Kollwitz, whose work reveals it to have once been home to the city’s impoverished and downtrodden, it was one of the first areas to be gentrified when the Wall fell in 1989. You’d never guess at the area's working class roots as you stroll around the leafy, cobbled streets [...]
