Fact Finders Berlin

26/04/2022

Thinking of Ukraine on Mauerweg, where blooming cherries mark the course of the Berlin Wall.

26/10/2021

12/04/2021

Spring has sprung in Berlin!

16/10/2019

Berlin is all dressed up again - make sure you don't miss the Festival of Lights projections all over the city!

12/09/2019

A night with David Sedaris at Babylon Berlin. Have a listen to his 2017 NPR interview:
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/31/530810011/david-sedaris-on-the-life-altering-and-mundane-pages-of-his-old-diaries

22/05/2019

Berlin is a paradise for rhododendron lovers at the moment - or anyone enjoying a romantic city park!

17/03/2019

Berlin's Tempelhof Airport was closed for aviation in 2008 but offers guided tours taking visitors around the giant terminal built from 1936 under the N***s. It has over 7,200 rooms, many of which were never finished. The monumental architecture has made Tempelhof Airport the scene of many movies, including "Bridge of Spies", "The Bourne Supremacy" and "Hunger Games".

Tempelhof was the hub of the 1948/49 Berlin Airlift when Allied planes supplied West Berlin with coal, fuel, equipment, food and other goods of daily need while the Soviets were blocking the land routes. For the 70th anniversary of the airlift, 40 "Candy bombers" are expected back in Berlin in June 2019.

23/02/2019

Spring has sprung in Berlin!

02/02/2019

Former Berlin correspondent for Knight Ridder / McClatchy Newspapers Matt Schofield has his first book out:
https://lesen.amazon.de/kp/embed?asin=B07N3Z7Z8V&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_O0zvCbPVN93WJ

Shared via Kindle. Description: Nev Sparrow, days after high school graduation, finds herself alone in her parents’ creaky old house and wants nothing more than to kick back on the couch. She spent her senior year doing everything that could be expected fro...

25/01/2019

Looking for suspense in a new book? There you go (and it's free for the next five days):
https://lesen.amazon.de/kp/embed?asin=B07N3Z7Z8V&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_Uy4sCbATKJKEK

Shared via Kindle. Description: Nev Spera, days after high school graduation, finds herself alone in her parents’ creaky old house and wants nothing more than to kick back on the couch. She spent her senior year doing everything that could be expected from ...

25/01/2019

Looking for suspense in a new book? Here you are:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N3Z7Z8V/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548444205&sr=8-1&keywords=Matt+Schofield+chances+are

Nev Spera, days after high school graduation, finds herself alone in her parents’ creaky old house and wants nothing more than to kick back on the couch. She spent her senior year doing everything that could be expected from her. She’d been a good student, a good athlete, she’...

25/01/2019

Looking for something new to read? Here you go:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N3Z7Z8V/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548444205&sr=8-1&keywords=Matt+Schofield+chances+are

Nev Spera, days after high school graduation, finds herself alone in her parents’ creaky old house and wants nothing more than to kick back on the couch. She spent her senior year doing everything that could be expected from her. She’d been a good student, a good athlete, she’...

10/10/2018

Berlin - City of Lights 2018

12/06/2018

Glimpses of Berlin, spring 2018

14/01/2017

If you are as puzzled by developments in Germany as we are by the US election results, contact Fact Finders!

24/08/2016

No idea why Facebook crops the photo so strangely, but you can see it properly by clicking on it.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article97606037.html

“Richard Goerlitz” walked into Day 290 of the most sensational hate crime trial in Germany since the aftermath of World War II with his gray hoodie pulled down low over his face, and a black and white scarf covering his mouth.

29/06/2016

Turkey hates Germany at the moment but Berlin mourns the victims of yesterday's terror attack at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport.

01/06/2016

At the Brandenburg Gate this moment - Turkish Berliners protesting the notion that their nation carried out a genocide.
(Turkish resistance is mounting ahead of a German parliamentary resolution, to be voted on Thursday, that recognizes Ottoman massacres of Armenians during World War I as genocide)