Insiders Berlin

  For a taste of Berlin at its wackiest and most wonderfully eccentric you have to head over to the Mauerpark Berlin over a sunny, summer weekend. The main attraction here is a huge old flea market (in German its known as the Mauerpark Flohmarkt) that has hundreds of stalls selling the most amazing assortment of treasure [...]

Ask a Berlin architect about the city’s buildings and they will drone on and on about Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the city’s great Prussian builder who designed the Alte Museum on Museum Island and the Neue Wache on the Unter den Linden avenue. In fact they love Schinkel so much that it seems as if just about every architect [...]

Berlin has much to delight lovers of the surreal and bizarre, but there is little that can top the totally weird Tropical Islands Resort. Strictly speaking the Tropical Islands isn’t really in Berlin. It is located about 60km south of the city in a giant hanger that is said to be the world’s biggest freestanding [...]