by finn ballard | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog
Sometimes I leave Berlin and explore other cities in Germany! Here’s the old town in Frankfurt am Main, Germany’s financial capital.
by finn ballard | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog
This month, I wholeheartedly recommend Thomas Harding’s Hanns and Rudolf. In a unique double-biographical style, Harding contrasts the decisions and destinies of Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who had fled to England and served as a Lieutenant in the British...
by finn ballard | Aug 2, 2018 | Blog
Did you know Berlin tried to build and open a new airport a few years ago? Well, it’s still not opened, and is now already way too small! I spotted this discarded bit of the ill-fated Berlin-Brandenburg Airport looking rather forlorn in the Friedenau...
by finn ballard | Jul 26, 2018 | Blog
Georg Elster was a master craftsman living in the village of Königsbronn, who travelled to Munich in 1938 in order to attend the annual commemoration of the ‘Beerhall Putsch’ uprising of November 8th, 1923. There he confirmed his notion that concealing a...
by finn ballard | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog
Berlin is a very flat city, but did you know that Berlin has a hill? And there’s an artificial waterfall running down it, which gets turned off in winter to stop the pipes freezing! But in the summer, it’s on and the sight and sound of running water from...
by finn ballard | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog
This month, a wholehearted double recommendation for you: Simon Winder’s Germania and Danubia, packed with anecdotes and revelations, by an author with a clear fondness for the many idiosyncrasies and oddities of Germany and Austria – and by one who shows...
