The christmas markets under the cathedral From Hamburg it was off south-west to Cologne. I didn’t really know anything about Cologne, apart from that it has a hektik cathedral, but it was also in the direction I needed to be heading and its serviced by direct high speed ICE trains. Got off the train and […]

The most awesome street in all of Hamburg After 11 days in Berlin I thought it was time to move on. This time it was up North to Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany and the second largest sea port in Europe. The train from Berlin is direct and its also a high speed […]

One of the many lakes in Sanssouci Park One of the day trips you can do from Berlin is to a place called Potsdam, or ‘City of Palaces’. NewEurope offer tours there that go for a few hours, but ive had mixed experiences of the day trip style tours that they offer. So I decided […]

Tacheles is a huge old building on Oranienburger Strasse. Here’s a good short description from Wikipedia: Kunsthaus Tacheles, formerly a department store in the Jewish quarter (Scheunenviertel) of Berlin, next to the synagogue, was originally called Friedrichsstadtpassagen. After serving as a Nazi prison, the building was taken over by artists, who called it “Tacheles,” Yiddish […]

One of the more colourful sections of the factory When I did the Alternate City Tour we walked past an alleyway and the tour guide stopped us to show some graffiti on the tall chimneys and factory at the end of the street. She said the factory was abandoned and that inside was really really […]