Small and window-less, its thick walls covered in white paint, the room contained a display of black and white photographs. ...

When we chanced upon this sculpture, its ugliness stopped us in our tracks. Then we realised how much of an anomaly .. ...

Looking for press studs for a cushion cover, I was stunned to discover this in my sewing kit – in ...

The name of the U-Bahnhof Südstern (literally, south star) references the station's location at Berlin's erstwhile southern boundary, from which roads leaving the city radiated in a star shape. ...

An audio slideshow about living in Neukölln, part of my series on my Kiez (neighbourhood), Neukölln, which explores notions of belonging. ...

Looking around Bayerischer Platz, nothing in the square initially stood out. Then we spotted the pictograph of a park bench ...

With limbs and bits of torso missing, the marble statues were also rather unceremoniously lumped together in a corner of Spandau's Zitadelle (Citadel). A far cry from their original purpose .. ...

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

This is a translation by Volker Wolf, of SL Wong's 'Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood'. Originally titled 'Zwei Wege Trenten Sich im Herbslichen Wald', it appeared in 'Kuala Lumpur - Berlin: Kisah Dua Bandar Raya / Kuala Lumpur - Berlin: Stadtgeschichten' (2012), a book by the Goethe-Institut Malaysia and the Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books.

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Arbours, snaking pathways and clever lines of sight were employed by Prussian 'garden artist' Lenné to ingeniously link diverse and seemingly unconnected landscapes. ...