Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- Berlin has not one centre but several, this has nothing to do with the former partition, it has always been like that, the different boroughs have quite independent sub-centres, too, a tourist should know this...
Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- The Houses of Parliament in London may be bigger and more impressive, but every time I was in London they looked the same, how boring. Not so the Reichstag (pronounced: raychs-tag), the German equivalent,...
Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- "How small it is," was what I thought when I walked through it the first time. Like many other Germans I had waited for this opportunity for a long time, for nearly 30 years it...
Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- Last May I stayed in Hamburg, my train arrived at 3 pm and I left the following day at about the same time. Can one get a more than superficial impression of such a big...
Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- Some years ago I re-visited Bremen, I used to live in a small town nearby for nine years and liked it there, in fact landscape-wise I’ve never liked it better anywhere else, I don’t cherish...
Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- Calling Frankfurt Mainhattan is the same as calling some stinking canals Little Venice or a range of mounds a bit higher than a molehill Switzerland. Everything is relative, as no other German city has more...
Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- The other day I was in Köln am Rhein, the fourth largest German city with nearly one million inhabitants, Cologne on the Rhine for you, Colonia Agrippina for the Old Romans; the wife of Emperor...
Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- Ask Germans what they associate with the city of Cologne, Köln in German (the ‘ö’ is pronounced like the ‘u’ in burn), and I bet you’ll hear, ‘Dom und Karneval (cathedral and carnival)’ or the...
Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- When I was in Munich and saw an ad for the Munich Walk Tour, I thought, why not? Why not find out what foreigners tell foreigners about Munich? (I’m German, you know)Starting from the...
Written by MALUSE on September 20, 2009
- Situated in the immediate vicinity of the Alte Pinakothek (art of the Old Masters to the 18th century) and the Neue Pinakothek (art of the 18th and 19th centuries), the Pinakothek der Moderne forms a...
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