I spent the first day of my trip to Berlin trying to get to acquainted with the city, zigzagging across the not-so-invisible boundary that used to divide the German capital into two…
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One of the perks of moving to a new city, especially if it’s abroad, is the fact that we always pay more attention to our surroundings, to every detail the regular resident…
Many people told me the same thing over and over: Berlin is colorless, dull and impersonal. I found many colors in the capital of Germany: in its parks, with their yellow, rust…
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is a city-state. That’s right. Often we forget that through the radical transformation which happened in its history, today Germany has become a Bundesrepublik, a…
The Sorbs? Who are the Sorb people? And Lusatia? Where is that? Let’s start from the beginning. Lusatia is the easternmost region in ex East Germany. And that’s no small feat, especially…
It’s the end of April and I am joining a tour along the route of megaliths, in north-west Europe. A question arises in my mind: why should a traveller prefer a tour…
Berlin is a city with many faces and its magnetic charm attracts millions of tourists every year. Here they find accommodation, attractions and entertainment for any tastes and budgets. The German capital…
A journey to Nuremberg is an extraordinary experience, diving in history and traditions of Franconia‘s economic and cultural centre. Located in Bavaria, Nuremberg is the land’s second largest town after Munich with…
Undoubtedly one of the most hip and happening cities in Western Europe at the time of writing, the old and new German capital of Berlin is an increasingly popular place for tourists…