Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
When the Red Army freed Berlin, Germany at the end of World War II (in April and May 1945) around 80000 Soviet soldiers lost their life. They have been buried there and different memorials throughout the city commemorate them. The biggest one is located in the Treptower Park, the one probably most often visited within the Großer Tiergarten. Continue reading “Sowjetisches Ehrenmal Tiergarten”
The Potsdamer Platz is a very well-known public space at Berlin, Germany with high buildings and great architecture. Here you can see Berlins first traffic lights and they are still operating (even though the traffic is not directed by it). It is a hub from which you can easily reach many interesting places on a short walk. Continue reading “Potsdamer Platz”
If you get to the German Federal Ministery of Finance at Berlin, Germany you might be a bit surprised. It is located in a special building at the city quarter Mitte which is today called the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus. It was built in 1935 and is a very good example for threatening fascist architecture. Continue reading “Finanzministerium”
If you’re in northern London, United Kingdom and somewhere close to Regent’s Park then a walk along Regent’s channel to the Camden Market is a good choice. In fact it is a combination of different markets offering art, souvenirs and food near the historical Camden Lock watergate. Continue reading “Camden Market”
It is a quite an unusual view of you only know the inner city center of London, United Kingdom: in the north of the city you might stumble open a 14 kilometers long canal going from east to west. It connects the Grand Junction Canal with the river Thames and was used to transport goods. Continue reading “Regent’s canal”
London, United Kingdom has some really large green areas and the Regent’s Park north of Fitzrovia is one of them. People get here to relax, meet friends or do some sports. It is used for art exhibitions, the houses surrounding it are especially beautiful. In the north you can find the London Zoo and the Grand Union Canal.
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The Söderåsen Nationalpark near Klippan, Sweden was a very positive surprise for us. It was a recommendation from a guidebook but we didn’t know what to expect and whether it would be a good idea to go there while the temperature was so high. But it was! Continue reading “Söderåsen”
Who doesn’t know the do-it-yourself furniture company IKEA? Some of us use their products during the whole life. IKEA in fact is an abbreviation for Ingvar Kamprad from Elmtaryd near Agunnaryd and that named place is near Älmhult, Sweden where you today find an IKEA hotel as well as an IKEA museum. Continue reading “IKEA museum”
The Älgpark at Målilla, Sweden is a special one: it is run by a family and is therefore also very family-friendly and you cannot drive through by car or be driven through in a bus. Instead you walk on a path along and around the habitats of three elk families. It is therefore a bit harder to get in direct touch with the animals – but therefore you can also see them swimming. Continue reading “Swimming elk”
If you go to the long-stretched island Öland via the long bridge connecting it to the mainland at Kalmar, Sweden you might want to see how people were living there in the past and get to know something about their culture. One of the best places for that is the Ölands Museum Himmelsberga at Borgholm. Continue reading “Ölands Museum”