Ruben & Carla
Lunch in Berlin just got a lot more interesting. Thanks to a tip from a Cee Cee Newsletter I went to Ruben & Carla on Linienstrasse a couple of weekends ago. I was intending to have the Pastrami sandwich but having checked out the menu I decided to follow the Chef’s suggestion and plumped for […]
Jimmy C (aka James Cochran) in Berlin
Jimmy C (real name James Cochran) is a Street Artist from Adelaide, Australia, though he feels equally at home in France. Taking inspiration from Aboriginal dot paintings he has developed a painting style using drips and has shown in galleries as well as leaving many of his pieces in the streets. All three of the […]
Hitler’s Folly – Schwerbelastungskörper
A giant slab of concrete may not seem like an obvious attraction but it is how and why the Schwerbelastungskörper (heavy load-bearing body) came to be here, in a residential part of Tempelhof in Berlin, that makes this monolith worth exploring. This was to be the site of a triumphal arch so big that it is […]
Stolpersteine 60 – 72
After two weeks without seeing any Stolpersteine (though admittedly I spent the best part of seven days out of the country) it seemed like I couldn’t go anywhere without seeing them this week. I have added photos of all the Stolpersteine I saw to the gallery here. I think that some of them may even […]
Sunshine Of Your Love
C215 – A familiar face in Berlin
I’ve been meaning to post a photo of this piece by C215 on Pfuelstrasse in Kreuzberg since I read Finding Faces: Street Art by C215 on Haikugirl’s Picturing England blog. When I saw Haikugirl’s post I commented that I had seen this piece that uses the same stencil as one in Bacon Street in London […]
Curry 66
It has been a while since I blogged about eating Currywurst but rest assured I haven’t fallen out of love with this Berlin snack. I’ve just been less adventurous for a while and stuck to some familiar haunts and then when I did try somewhere new I got caught up with some other posts. I […]
BLU in Berlin – Past and Present
If you’ve been to Berlin, the chances are you’ve seen BLU’s work. His Street Art murals are both visually striking and on a massive scale. These pieces on Cuvrystrasse in Kreuzberg are visible from the Oberbaumbrücke and impossible to miss if you’re taking a boat trip along this part of the Spree. BLU hails from Bologna […]
The Stasi Museum
The former headquarters of the Secret Police in Berlin is now The Stasi Museum. This is the building that was ‘stormed’ in 1990 by protesters looking for the files that were kept here. With all the secrecy that surrounded this building in a divided Germany, it seems apt that since re-unification it has become accessible to […]