I noticed him whilst I was hanging around a Bahnhof entrance in Neukölln, waiting to photograph the station disgorge passengers. Was he Vietnamese, I wondered, and was he selling contraband…
As a new arrival in Berlin and being of Asian extraction, I somehow expected 'foreigner' to be stamped on my forehead for all to read and react to. Instead, no…
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 ..
She darted at me, very upset. The German came thick and fast and all I could make out was “Kein Foto!” Taken aback, I lowered my camera. But why she was so perturbed?
Strangers in Berlin generally didn't tell us what they thought of us, but a bank officer inadvertently did.
Malaysia doesn't make it to the news very often in Berlin, especially the news digests that flash on the little U-Bahn (the underground) video screens. (Well, the annual Formula 1…
“As German as apple strudel” should in the name of accuracy really be: “As Habsburgian as apple strudel”. Habsburg was of course the 18th century Vienna-headquartered empire spanning parts or…
Gartenzwerge are supposed to be prolific in the quintessential-German-prolific sense. However, I found them ..
