Berlin during November Days …

There is quite a lot to DO here in Berlin at grey and somewhat cold November days, such as visiting one of the many museums like the New National Gallery, or the new ´museum of exile` at Anhalter Bahnhof under Herta Mueller`s patronage, see https://stiftung-exilmuseum.berlin/en.
Plenty of cafés and restaurants invite us to sip a cup of coffee while reading a nice article about ugly politics, chatting with people we do not really know, or to check out current theatre and movie events. This entails screening original features at streets we would stroll along thereafter …

Parks and winter markets let us think of festive moments towards Christmas and end-of-the year attractions, although we all suffer ongoing war situations in South East Europe, the Middle East or beyond. We won’t really go for Spa-visits either that let us drown in wellness and relaxation, matters we do not really fancy these days.

picture source: https://pixabay.com/de/photos/berlin-spree-herbst-wasser-baum-6907526/

Bandenburg an der Havel: a Visit nearby Berlin

Brandenburg`s Stonegate Tower – der Steintorturm – stands for a 15th Century monument housing a museum landscape along the river Havel today. Fishing and crafts had been part of the local past, and remain such until today’s artisanal activities in a region employing more than a million out of 2.5 mid inhabitants in most diverse and innovative trades, see https://mwae.brandenburg.de/sixcms/detail.php/155705.

Berlinsights August 2024

Sad stories on the city of Solingen (Bergisches Land, NRW) around a seemingly knife-carrying potential assassin who had lived nearby in an Asylum location nearby: his quest for refuge had been rejected earlier. Such news appear like fire and oil for an obviously ill-informed German society that too easily jumps into generalisation of realities hardly being digested.