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AWESOME SETS of STAIRS!

Robson Square · Vancouver, British Columbia With disabled people in mind this architect designed the most awesome stairs with full wheelchair access! It is the perfect set up and most likely the future of staircases. Many of you may have seen these images elsewhere, but they were recently forwarded to me, and I thought I would share them with you! For anyone, unless you are very fit, many of these sets of stairs will take your breath away, or, at least make you puff just thinking about climbing and... Read More

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Street furniture

Viewing some of the other blogs I have seen in recent weeks, made me look a little more carefully at some of the details around the streets in Berlin recently, which was how I came to take some of these photos. Unfortunately, the weather was not too good during most of our trip, hence the grey skies! However we did find some brighter images! Related articles Postcard Travel Tip – Berlin, Germany (cardstohome.wordpress.com) The Kitchen Café – Berlin (itsrainingflamingosandfoxes.com)

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Welcome to ‘erlin!

As anyone who has read this blog before will know, I love street art, especially the decorated animal statures that have frequented our cities in recent years. So when heading to Berlin I was looking forward to finding the various Buddy Bears that currently live in the city. So I was delighted to find “Welcome to ‘erlin” (someone had rubbed the B away) shortly after my arrival in the city not far from the Brandenburg Gate. However many of the other Buddy Bears proved to be elusive, or maybe just... Read More

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Ritter Sport

K promised me Sport when we got to Berlin, so we ended our first day enjoying delicious deserts here, before exploring all the yummy display downstairs. We were too late in the day to try to make our own chocolate, but the queue we saw on a subsequent visit showed us that this is a very popular activity.

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Berlin Holocaust Memorial

Well, we finally made it to Berlin last week, and had a fascinating if exhausting time exploring the city, mostly on foot, although we did use some buses and the subway when we were too tired to walk any further! We started our trip at the Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe, near to the Brandenburg Gate. This Memorial was built on land that use to form part of the ‘No mans area’ of the Berlin Wall. Walking amongst the vast field of stellae deliberately built on uneven ground... Read More

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Guten Tag, Bonjour, Buen Día, Buongiorno!

I am conscious that once again I am about to travel to another country, this time Germany, with little or no knowledge of the local language beyond ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ and ‘Do you speak English?’ What is it about the British that arrogantly assumes that we can always speak to others and be understood by them in our own language, and expect them to respond to us in English as well? It amazes me as I have travelled around Europe (to date I have only left Europe briefly, and... Read More

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Berlin ideas

K has suggested that when we get to Berlin in a few weeks time, this is one place I might like to visit, I think he is referring to my love of sport … not chocolate! I have to say that I am really looking forward to my time in Germany, there is so much to see!

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Berlin

Later this year K and I are off to spend a few days in Berlin, this will be our first visit and we are anxious to try and see as much of the city as possible. K is already busy planning the itinerary, which for us will be based around the 20th Century history of the city. However we are still open to ideas of places to visit and things to see, and if we can fit everything in, I will report about it later after our visit. Related articles... Read More