Places

This little fellow, Fifty, is fluffy, very white and has a personality. He lives at Animal Shelter Berlin. And he is not alone.

Located in the central Black Forest, Gengenbach is a small town that offers three things above all: a lot of history, good food and excellent wine. Almost 2,000…

Famous authors, composers, musicians and politicians are buried in Berlin. For instance, the Grimm brothers' graves of honor are located here. They are not…

Germany has a few medieval towns that are too beautiful to be real. Quedlinburg, a major tourist magnet, is one of those. Hundreds of thousands of visitors per year came here before Corona hit.

In the early 1990s, when part of the excitement about Germany's reunification had evaporated, there were people who noticed something was missing in Berlin's…

Who would have thought that Berlin, a city not exactly known for quietude or deceleration, has an authentic village? Who needs Brandenburg? Berlin has a rural atmosphere itself. In Lübars.

Beauty is usually in the eyes of the beholder. In this case, it is obvious. Especially in fall, Berlin is stunningly pretty.

Our passports are supposed to let us travel the world. As it turns out, some of them give us access to quite a lot of countries while others do not. Owning a German passport is an advantage these days.