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Royal Red Station

Did the 'royal red' limestone in the Bahnhof Mohrenstr underground station come from Hitler's Reich Chancellery? ...

Tempeholf Airport Installation - by SL Wong

Trust Berlin to have an airport-sized park in the middle of the city that was actually once an airport.

All these were wonderful substitutes for the Indian sweets which we would enjoy in Malaysia during the Hindu festival of Deepavali. ω - by SL Wong

Like a beacon, Konditerei Al-Iman drew us indoors to warm our bodies and sweeten our palates with tantalising desserts from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. ...

The gigantic metallic figures stood in the middle of the river. What were they? What did they mean? ...

Initially, I did not even know what the German for 'on' and 'off' was (see bottom left), what more the rest of the manual. - by SL Wong

I shall contemplate the washing machine. Dictionary firmly in hand, I sit before the machine,.. ...

Billboard of anti-whaling campagin against Japan. - by SL Wong

Friends got really upset when we showed them a picture of this billboard targeting Japan's whaling programme. Was it racist? I didn't think so but I can see .. ...

U-Bahnhof Altstadt Spandau - >em>by SL Wong

The U-Bahnhof Altstadt Spandau is one of Berlin's deepest stations, built thus as this section of the U7 line runs under a river and a medieval city centre. ...

In Prussian times, the square after which this underground station was named, served as Berlin's bailiwick. ...

It was Spring and I was at it again in Körner Park, aiming my zoom lens at Ver the statue. Suddenly, I spotted .. ...

This festive draught excluder was bought in Winter, but served us well throughout the cold weather, which amounted to about eight months in a year. It also came in useful for my third Christmas' greeting card. - by Sl Wong

Nobody does Christmas the way Germans do, and so each Weihnachten, I made digital .. ...

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Royal Red Station

Tempelhof: From Airport to Park

Syrian Sweets

Molecule Man

Contemplating the Washing Machine

Against Japanese Whaling

Deep Station

Bailiff Station

Take My Photo II

What to Put on a Xmas Card

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A-Z keywords to decipher Berlin

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These are personal stories about living in Berlin, drawn from four years of experiencing the German capital. I include German in the titles of my stories because the language was first a barrier, then a doorway to our experiences.

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Look through these
A-Z keywords to
decipher Berlin

These are personal stories about living in Berlin, drawn from four years of experiencing the German capital. I include German in
the titles of my stories because the language was first a barrier, then a doorway to our experiences.

© 2014- Wong Siew Lyn, all rights reserved. If you like something here, link to it, don't copy it