by finn ballard | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog
BBQ season is in full swing this summer, and what better place to enjoy the weather than on the runways of the former Tempelhof Airport?! What’s your favourite place for a BBQ?
by finn ballard | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog
Dutch citizen, Willem Arondeus was gay man, painter, novelist and art historian, who did all he could to impede the Nazis in their occupation of Holland. He authored periodicals calling upon fellow artists and workers to commit acts of civil disobedience and to resist...
by finn ballard | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog
I recently met this lady on the U-bahn (Berlin underground/subway), born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1937, who advises us all to practice yoga!
by finn ballard | Jun 14, 2018 | Blog
I would like to recommend the movie, ‘The Invisibles’ by Claus Raefle from 2017. It’s a part documentary, part dramatisation film that depicts the fates of some of the approximately 7000 Jewish Germans who went into hiding in Berlin during WWII....
by finn ballard | Jun 7, 2018 | Blog
I’m excited to say that I’m also now offering tours through the lovely city of Leipzig, just a couple of hours south of Berlin!
by finn ballard | Apr 12, 2018 | Blog
A book that is more than deserving of its bestseller status, Norman Ohler’s ‘Blitzed’ is an examination of drug addiction in Nazi Germany. The book’s real fascination lies not in its graphic depiction of Hitler’s long-suspected habits,...