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Trip Review: Berlin Secret Places

10/11/2022 by .
Berlin Secret Places

Andy Mossack visits some Berlin secret places as he explores the less-travelled parts of Germany’s capital.

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Celebrating the Bauhaus in Berlin

12/08/2019 by .
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The Bauhaus was one of the 20th century’s most influential schools of art, design and architecture. As part of celebrations to commemorate the centenary of the school’s foundation, in Weimar during 1919, Germany’s capital is hosting the Bauhaus Week Berlin from 31 August to 8 September.

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Night Train to Berlin

27/11/2014 by .
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On a rainy night in February, I was waiting in Paris’s Gare de L’Est station for the night train to Berlin. Those last four words are loaded with romance. And I was taking this winter journey in search of the romance of rail travel in a European winter.

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On the trail of Richard Strauss in Germany

26/03/2014 by .
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This is the view from composer Richard Strauss’s house in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Is it any wonder that he wrote the “Alpine Symphony”?

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