Christmas Impressions 2007

Posted on December 26, 2007 - Filed Under Berlin | Leave a Comment

The run up to Christmas 2007 hasn’t been very exciting for me and if I’m honest I’m quite pleased that the festival is already half-over.
Haus Huth, Alte Potsdamer Straße.
Potsdamer Arkaden, December 2007.
This year there was only a dusting of snow on Christmas Eve and since then it has been cold and sunny. Most […]

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Two tickets Berlin - Narvik and return - From my Book Collection

Posted on December 15, 2007 - Filed Under Berlin, Books, Transport, U-Bahn | Leave a Comment

 
My dear little wife!
It is 08:00 on the 28th September 1940 and we are sitting in the Hotel Royal in Narvik…From my collection.
On 9 April 1940 Nazi Germany invaded Norway, taking the British Government totally by surprise and signalling a new phase in the war
that had up to that time been penned “The Phoney War” […]

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Transport developments - December 2007

Posted on December 9, 2007 - Filed Under Berlin, Buses, Transport | Leave a Comment

Today is National Timetable change day in Germany, the day on which all transport undertakings and Deutsche Bahn update their timetables. This year, apart from the extension of the MetroBus route M85 to Hauptbahnhof, there have been mostly only minor changes in Berlin, mainly to do with the renaming of Bus Stops.
Publicity Material
This year […]

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