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Author: Penny Croucher

Checkpoint Charlie Then and Now

28/11/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

What’s in a name? In the case of Checkpoint Charlie, with its personification of a notorious border crossing at the Berlin Wall, it immediately conjures ...

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The Berlin Wall Revisited

09/11/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

The Berlin Wall Revisited – Today, 9th November 2017, is the 28th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin has now been reunited ...

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New Eastside Berlin Wall Museum

30/10/2017 No Comments Cool Collections History and Politics History

The New Eastside Berlin Wall Museum – The Berlin Wall divided the city for 28 years from 1961 until 1989. In 2017, 28 years since its ...

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Russian Berlin

04/10/2017 No Comments Café Society History and Politics Cafés

Russian Berlin – Berlin’s relationship with Russia is unique. There are now an estimated 300,000 Russians living in the German capital, many of them Russian-Germans ...

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Berlin Calling – from the Radioeins Rooflounge

18/09/2017 1 Comment Café Society City Centre Sights Cafés

Heavenly views of Berlin are always a treat and in summer it seems as if every hotel in the city is competing to have the coolest ...

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My Berlin

06/09/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights City Sights

I was recently interviewed by the magazine ‘Where Berlin’ which is circulated to a number of hotels and available to pick up at Tegel and ...

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Angel’s Pool – a city oasis

01/09/2017 No Comments Café Society History and Politics Small Worlds Cafés

Kreuzberg has always been a district on the edge – literally and metaphorically. When the city was divided, this West Berlin neighbourhood was enclosed ...

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Back in the GDR

16/08/2017 No Comments Cool Collections History and Politics History

The Stasi – Berlin is a city with a fearful past. But it doesn’t keep its skeletons in the cupboard; it bares its soul and ...

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A Multiverse of Courtyards

29/07/2017 No Comments Buy, Buy Berlin Café Society History and Politics Cafés

To explore the German capital, it is not enough to walk the length and breadth of its streets. If you want to catch the Berlin ...

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Meet me at Dussmann

16/07/2017 1 Comment Buy, Buy Berlin Café Society Cafés

Dussmann das Kulturkaufhaus. Berlin may be famed for its dark history and decadence, but it also has a reputation as a city bursting with culture. ...

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