Around and About Berlin - In Autumn
Posted on October 30, 2009 - Filed Under Around & About Berlin, Berlin | 2 Comments
We’ve been having a typical Autumn in Berlin, colourful leaves with a backdrop of grey skies, what is called ‘Hochnebel’ in German, but which has no really good English equivalent apart from ‘low stratus’. The nights are slowly drawing in and the overwhelming atmosphere is one of a receding 2009.
German thoroughness and order - Karl-Marx-Allee […]
Read More..>>Forbidden Places - Staaken, Heerstraße
Posted on October 28, 2009 - Filed Under Around & About Berlin, Berlin | Leave a Comment
Until the 9th November, I will been posting a selection of photos of Forbidden Places - locations that up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, were not accessible to the ‘ordinary person on the street’.
From the late 1940s onwards, Staaken on the western edge of Spandau, itself Berlin’s most westerly Borough, became a GDR/West […]
Going, going, gone at Ostkreuz
Posted on October 26, 2009 - Filed Under Berlin, S-Bahn, Transport | 1 Comment
In The Last Day- Ostkreuz Ringbahnhof I recently wrote about the closure of the old Ringbahn platforms on Ostkreuz station. Six week later, all traces of the hundred year old station have been erased and the busy staircases to and from the platforms at this, the busiest of Berlin’s S-Bahn stations is now just a […]
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