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Berlin holidays

June 2024

  • The abandoned spy station on Teufelsberg, the manmade hill created from second world war riubble

    Berlin by rail: a cold-war adventure

    Taking the sleeper train to Berlin, the writer and his teenage son explore the city’s fascinating legacy, eerie buildings, war relics and stunning street art

May 2024

  • Lindau at Sunrise Bodensee Harbor Bavaria Germany<br>Sunrise over Bodensee Harbor Entrance of Lindau with the famous Lighthouse and Bavarian Lion Sculpture (from the year 1856). Sunrise, Aerial Drone point of View. Lindau, Bodensee, Bavaria, Germany.

    Extra time at Euro 2024: day trips and more from Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Leipzig

    Spectacular scenery and rich culture from the Alps to the North Sea are just a train ride away from the main hubs at this summer’s football tournament

January 2024

  • Berlin bus at east side wall, BVG bus passing through Berlin Wall<br>2M79H36 Berlin bus at east side wall, BVG bus passing through Berlin Wall

    A musical tour of Berlin: from Wagner’s epic opera to techno raves

  • Island of Spinalonga, Crete, Greece

    ‘We came away awestruck’: 13 writers on Europe’s hidden treasures, from Chagall in Kent to Rome’s secret Caravaggios

September 2023

  • Wrocław Glowny station

    Witches, DJs and dancing in the aisles: on board the Culture Train from Berlin to Poland

    Musicians, dancers and a tarot-card reading artist animate the nearly five-hour journey to Wrocław from the German capital

August 2023

  • Flutgraben canal, Treptow-Kopenick, Berlin, Berlin, Germany<br>EBGAMC Flutgraben canal, Treptow-Kopenick, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    I ventured out of busy central Berlin – and it rose to the occasion

    As the city grapples with over-tourism, a new initiative aims to promote its lesser-visited outer reaches, where a mix of funky culture, historic gems and untamed greenery awaits

May 2023

  • Close-up view of the European Sleeper train on a platform in Berlin, Germany.

    From Berlin to Brussels, the night train renaissance gathers speed with the new European Sleeper

    The latest capital-to-capital sleeper is one of Europe’s most eagerly awaited new routes – and connects London to Berlin in 16 hours

March 2023

  • Demonstrators with the lettering 'My body my choice' painted on their back take part in a bicycle protest for the 'equality of all bodies, against discrimination of women's bodies in public space' in Berlin, on July 10, 2021.

    Berlin welcomes topless female swimmers in victory for activists

  • MICHELBERGER HOTEL lobby 02 by Sigurd Larsen design architecture

    10 of the best hotels in Berlin

October 2022

  • Wintergarten theatre

    Beautiful, decadent, damaged: a walk back in time through roaring 20s Berlin

    With the fourth series of Babylon Berlin starting on Friday, this atmospheric stroll peels back the history of a city that rarely stopped dancing – even during its darkest days

August 2022

  • Thermana Laško - cycling along Savinja river

    Five of the best sustainable holidays across Europe

    From a spa-and-cycling trail across Slovenia to the coolest energy-saving hotels in Berlin, these getaways tick all the eco boxes

October 2021

  • Berlin for Locals Guide in Saturday Travel

    A local's guide
    A local’s guide to Berlin: five great things to do

    Art dealer Johann König revels in his city’s diversity, where relics of the former East rub shoulders with hip nightclubs of the West

May 2021

  • A cafe terrace near at the Brandenburg Gate on the Great Reopening Weekend.

    Berliners feel ‘the warm glow of our freedoms returning’

    When Berlin’s cafe terraces reopened at the weekend, our writer joined the ‘amazing’ scenes in Kreuzberg, where people gathered to celebrate the relaxation of lockdown – even in the rain

December 2020

  • Rhonda Carrier on interrail train

    Interrailing at 50: reliving our backpacking days … in style

    The European rail pass offers two friends a second bite at their youth, as they savour bars, views and food from Amsterdam to Copenhagen

May 2020

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    Life after lockdown in Berlin: campsites, lidos and lakes reopen for summer

    It’s not the carefree city we are accustomed to, but as more restrictions are lifted the happy, unmasked faces of my fellow campers seem as relieved as I am

April 2020

  • Crouded bathing at the Strandbad Wannsee (bathing beach), Grunewald, Berlin<br>AG8RM7 Crouded bathing at the Strandbad Wannsee (bathing beach), Grunewald, Berlin

    Postcard from the future: ‘I dream of Berlin's pristine lakes’

  • A virtual set at Watergate club on 18 March.

    Lockdown culture
    A new form of house music: Berlin clubs livestream DJ sets

March 2020

  • Clubbers queuing outside infamous Berghain nightclub on a Sunday afternoon in Berlin Germany<br>E6BCWH Clubbers queuing outside infamous Berghain nightclub on a Sunday afternoon in Berlin Germany

    This is Europe
    With the closure of another club space, the scene that revived Berlin is being lost

    Michael Scaturro
    The dance community helped reunify East and West Germany in the 1990s, but gentrification is slowly killing it, says Berlin-based journalist Michael Scaturro

January 2020

  • A picture taken on December 8, 2019 shows a view of the facade of Berlin dance hall Claerchens Ballhaus.

    Bittersweet Berlin goodbye as Clärchens Ballhaus faces uncertain future

    The legendary club and ballroom joins a growing list of iconic city venues under threat due to lease renewal issues

December 2019

  • Neuruppin, sunrise over a cornfield

    Nature's son: on the trail of Theodor Fontane, the German Charles Dickens

    North of Berlin, in a lowland world of lakes and quiet beauty, follow in the footsteps of a 19th-century writer who documented the natural landscape
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