Posts Tagged ‘Volkspark Friedrichshain’
Berlin’s Three Peaks Challenge
Kevin Braddock and Paul Sullivan take on the Berlin equivalent of the Three Peaks challenge... Successive waves of trauma, division and reconstruction have given Berlin’s outward character a dimension of the arbitrary that’s absent in cities with seemingly “finished” centers like Paris, London and New York. Such was the thrust of a topic embarked upon during a "Slow" walk with the artist Stephen Walter not so long ago to the Borsigwerke above Tegel Airport. Walter, who is in [...]
Volkspark Friedrichshain
Everyone loves a good park. Volkspark Friedrichshain is one of Berlin’s finest… Even by Berlin’s high standards, the Volkspark Friedrichshain stands out as one of the city’s special green spaces. Established a century and a half ago to commemorate the centennial of Frederick the Great's accession to the throne, it gives good history, swathes of Liegewiese (sunbathing areas), an abundance of leisure opportunities and more than its fair share of interesting landmarks. Casually [...]
Paul & Paula
A friendly and colourful kindercafe near the Volkspark Friedrichshain... Located on a quiet leafy back street between the extensive Volkspark Friedrichshain and the grandiloquent Karl-Marx-Allee, Paul & Paula is one of the longer serving veterans of Berlin’s kindercafe scene. Named after the East German movie classic Die Legende von Paul und Paula, which was filmed partly in Friedrichshain in 1973, i t’s been providing delightful refuge for mums and dads and their kids for [...]
