Archive for the ‘Germany’ Category
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
One of Berlin’s more special and lesser-known cultural treasures is tucked away by the Landwehrkanal, near the corner of Klingelhoferstrasse and Von-der Heydt Strasse, on the Herkulesufer in South Tiergarten.
The Bauhaus Archive is all that remains of one of the most important design influences of the twentieth century. It’s a ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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Yesterday I took the S-bahn to Potsdam, a place as surreal as München, but for completely different reasons. Imagine someone took a handful of stage sets for a play by Moliere, and a handful of DDR Politburo-constructivist post-apocalypse concrete monstrosities (occasionally made tolerable by a bit of abstract sculpture or ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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The train ride to Augsburg is rather lovely – speeding through quaint Bavarian villages with their onion-domed churches (and ignoring the dirty great office complexes housing the German megacorporations that find them cheaper to operate from than the cities) that look as though they would be snowed upon if you ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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Currywurst – this is supposedly a specifically Berliner dish, but is in fact just a sausage covered in a thick mess of curry powder’ DO NOT PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH.
Berliner Bank currently has the motto “Berlin ist spontanâ€. This is patently not true as in Berlin you need to ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Yesterday I spent the morning at the Oldenburg Museum of human and natural history. This is a swampy part of the country, so I finally got to see honest-to-god bog people. That is so cool! Also seeing bronze age artifacts and actually being somewhere where human (and specifically European) history ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I am now in Oldenburg – a big town or a small city (depending on your perspective) which played an important part in the Thirty Years War is about as far North-West as you can go in Germany without falling the North Sea or having to learn Dutch. Actually there ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Friday and Saturday (Berlin time) were no less heavy duty.
In the morning we took a train almost to Potsdam to Haus am Waldsee, an exhibition space for international contemporary art, which featured a number of sound and sound-based works about the tranquil and lightly forested lakeside parkland in which the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Berlin must surely be one of the most liveable cities in the world. It’s so green and public transport is incredibly efficient. I am staying in West Charlottenburg in the west of the city in a pristinely preserved 1970s hotel straight out of the old Teach Yourself German books, which ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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Thirteen hours on a Lufthansa airbus (Riesling over the Himalayas and Central Asian desert makes even cattle class appealing) and I’m in Frankfurt a. M. When you’ve just been flying for nearly twenty-four hours non-stop, suffering from jetlag and driving into Frankfurt early on a muggy summer evening, it looks ...
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