[Snapshot] Hot Summer in Berlin
Tatoos (with all genders) and bare chests (with men) are very popular this summer.
View Article[Snapshot] Boxhagener Platz
One of my favourite bars where I like to sit with friends and have a coffee or a beer in summer is a little punk pub at Boxhagener Platz in the former East Berlin district called Friedrichshain. It is...
View Article[Snapshot] Playing Hopscotch at Warschauer Brücke
A woman playing hopscotch outside the Warschauer Straße station, end of the U 1 subway line U 1 which is an elevated railway here.
View Article[Video] Emil & Jacub: Percussion from the Czech Republic at Warschauer Brücke
Emil & Jacub from the Czech Republic play a late night street show at S-Bahn station Warschauer Brücke. They bang along on a set of cooking pots and old buckets. You can hear great street musicians...
View Article[Video] Street musician at Alexanderplatz with Plastic Pipe Digeridoo
This guy is not only multifaceted and able to multitask, playing different instruments, he also creatively developed a didgeridoo from escape pipes. Here is how you can built your own plastic pipe...
View Article[Snapshot] The friendly Mr. Thanh
This friendly gentleman runs a corner shop near Frankfurter Tor in Friedrichshain. Although I pass by his shop quite often I hardly ever buy anything there, for no apparent reason – it just never...
View Article[Snapshot] Berliner with a Zwirbelbart
A handlebar mustache, a Zwirbelbart or Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bart in German, is not the latest fashion here in Berlin. Though hipsters are fascinated with beards and mustaches, I have never seen one with that...
View Article[Snapshot] Drunken Swedes
We met these rat-arsed Swedish ice hockey fans last night when we were looking for a place to have a drink and watch the sun down at the river Spree after a nice day out. We were quite shocked to...
View ArticleNo Pegida in Berlin
Like in all German cities, except for their home turf in Dresden, a pitiful bunch of a few hundred fans of the anti-islamic Pegida movement were „greeted“ in Berlin by a several thousand strong...
View Article[Gallery] Tempelhofer Freiheit
The Tempelhofer Feld is one of the things really worth seeing in Berlin. It is not…
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