Insiders Berlin

What puts Berlin up there as one of the child (and parent!) friendliest cities in the world is its knack of adapting current hip trends and services to suit adults who just happen to have children. Berlin’s child-friendly infrastructure came as a very pleasant surprise to me. I certainly hadn’t seen anything like the diverse [...]

The MachMit museum (see photos left and below) is a great find especially for winter afternoons. I recently took my 4 year old there and he had a fantastic time on the amazing wooden climbing maze. The museum also has changing interactive exhibitions and related activities. When we visited the exhibition was “Papier=Knuller”. Here we [...]

Freund Blase (see photo left and below) is a favourite for parents with younger babies. It is a strictly socks/barefoot cafe only, (this means that the floor is relatively clean for the little bottom feeders tolick if they must). The layout is great as well since the big open space allows parents a good view [...]

Kiezkind was the very first Kindercafe I came across in Berlin. We were here on a recce; it was snowing; I was heavily pregnant and we were trudging around Helmholtzplatz, with me trying very hard to visualise how I would make a life in this strange, freezing cold city with 2 offspring. I was pleasantly [...]