I was determined not to miss it again. After stumbling upon a magnificent giant portrait by street artist Vhils in ...

I noticed him whilst I was hanging around a Bahnhof entrance in Neukölln, waiting to photograph the station disgorge passengers. ...

As a new arrival in Berlin and being of Asian extraction, I somehow expected ‘foreigner’ to be stamped on my ...

Immediately after WWII, women shouldered the bulk of clearing the tons of rubble in bombed cities. These Trümmerfrauen (rubble women) impacted gender roles in Germany. ...

The sculpture was huge, shaggy and up on a tree. We were delighted to immediately identify it as something from ...

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. ...

Ah! Spring. Season of .. allergenic early-flowerers a.k.a. hay fever-inducing plants. One culprit is the Pappeln or poplar (Populus), which produces 'summer snow'. ...

How do you make a new monument matter on a busy street? The monument was to Georg Elser, a carpenter who in 1939 tried to assassinate Hitler and other Nazi leaders but failed. ...

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 .. ...

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

To great hilarity, my husband put together bits of two sentences he had half heard and that is how the cake came to be known as Eva Ohne Sahne (Eva Without Cream). We were at Yoggi's birthday party .. ...

A white bucket in hand, Christine Zorn walks along the knee-high tarpaulin fencing a road in Buch, in north Berlin. ...