Two days: Oct 15 & 16, we covered 3 kietz: Akazienkietz, which is kind of part of Schöneberg, Nollendorfkietz, which straddles Schöneberg...

Today we walked through the grounds, and around the neighborhood, of Charlottenburg Palace. The palace & grounds are pretty impressive,...

One day a year the city puts on a Festival of Lights, in which they commission artists to make light shows on the downtown buildings....

Out of coffee, off to FirstCrack in Prenzlauer Berg: Then back through Mitte. The dark circle is the shadow of the TV tower:

Potsdam is a big town / small city just outside Berlin. Lots happened there: it was the home of Prussian royalty for a long time, the...

Leslie found a Lebanese restaurant in Neukölln (known for middle-eastern communities): Azzam. We ate there, it was great! Walking back...

On Oct 6 we moved to Friedenau. It’s quite different than Friedrichshain: more upscale, a bit more suburban. It’s the blue dot in the...

We have been meeting one of my online Deutsch teachers, Birgit. She suggested this place Bellboy, an over-the-top 20’s supper club. Very...

Leslie had a hair appointment in Preslauer Berg. I dropped her off & went exploring. Ran across the Kulturbraurei, the brewery of...

Misc walking about on a cold & rainy day... Marienkirche: Hackescher Markt: The DDR museum. Pretty interesting, there was a...

Today is the last day of September, Monday the 30th. We got around a fair amount today (although, checking the health app, we did about...

So the Berlin marathon was today (Sun Sep 28). We set up between the 2 and 3 KM markers, at a sharp right turn in the route. There were...

First signs of winter; pulled out scarves gloves & hats & headed out for Neuköln for more exploration. First stop: Friedrichshain...

Another day in Treptower park, in the former East Berlin alongside the Spree river. It's huge, many-faceted. There's a Forest School and...

Living in the former East Berlin, we've been diving deep into DDR history. The "stasi" was the DDR's ministry for state security, the...

Scenes from the S-Bahn around the Ost-Kreuz station, near home, in the former East-Berlin: On Birgit’s suggestion, we took a walk around...

By the way we've been spending 4 hours a day, 4 days a week in German language class. It's in the brown building in the center of the...

We took a long weekend trip to Hamburg: Left Fri AM, returned to Berlin Sun PM. It's a 2-1/2 hour train trip, so we had pretty much 3...

There are many large open spaces and parks in Berlin. One such is Treptower Park, in the former East Berlin along the banks of the river...

[I am extremely frustrated with this blogging app, this is a shitty post, bear with me…] We walked by the central trainstation - it's...