Ship2shore - private Berlin excursions with Lee Evans and Friends

27/10/2024

In front of Bahla Fort in Oman, where it is hotter than the surface of the sun.

22/10/2024

Intrepid travelers in Northern Qatar....

09/09/2024

28/02/2024

Outside Haus der Wannseekonferenz, today.

16/02/2024

Да здравствует Алексей Анатольевич Навальный!

К черту фашиста Путина!

29/06/2023

OMFG. Welsh Cakes: one of my favourite things in the entire universe. Here made by Real people and not from a Marks&Spencer package. Clair Mainwaring how do you survive without these?

06/06/2023

Astrid Gilberto is dead. I'm sad. Most people would never guess that I would even like her, but the Getz/Gilberto colab, is one of my favourite albums ever. Bossa Nova, cool new wave music from a more civilized time. sigh.

26/10/2021

Tempelhof Airport is one of the most interesting spots in Berlin. On its runway, aircraft are banned. Instead, it is being used by dancers, joggers, cyclists, inline skaters, families, party people…

09/10/2021

The BVG, Berlin’s public transportation authority, offers interesting tours of the historical subway, in open top subway cars. It is a fascinating opportunity to explore the main lines and the secret tunnels that connect them. At €53, it isn’t cheap, but completely worth the time. The narration is all in German, but there is just something to the fun that can be had, speeding through the subway, during normal operations, with the top down.

01/10/2021

German artist Käthe Kollwitz captured the struggles of the working class with empathy and was not afraid to put politics front and center in her work.

27/08/2021

East Berlin's famed Ampelmännchen has inspired a new generation of pedestrian signals that will make you stop in your tracks.

31/03/2021

After several cholera epidemics, the city was the last European capital to get running water.

28/03/2021

An interesting article about the attempts of an autocratic government to rewrite a troubling history without really thoughtfully examining its past by punishing those who do.

To exonerate the nation of the murders of three million Jews, the Polish government will go as far as to prosecute scholars for defamation.

19/03/2021

The most recent renovations of Zoo Station are mostly complete. Since we've lived in Berlin, this is the third or fourth attempt to modernize the station.
It seems that this time the station has largely become a shopping mall with relatively little railroad presence.

22/12/2020

The Feuerzangenbowle is one of my favorite parts of the German Holiday tradition. This warm mixture of mulled wine, rum, and burning caramelized sugar really ups the game on simple Glühwein.
As much as I hate crowds, I am missing one Feuerzangenbowle stand at the Spandau Christmas Market in particular. We made this once for a party in the US and almost (according to the story as retold by my dad) burned down my parent's house. Real German beverages should be dangerous.

Make things boozy and bright with feuerzangenbowle.

18/11/2020

Wagner and other historians of the N**i era say they feel they are on the frontlines of a culture war and that the defamation investigation is just one incidence of a campaign of harassment, including death threats.

Historian Jens-Christian Wagner was stunned when he received a telephone call this month from the public prosecutor’s office in the northern German town of Göttingen: He was being investigated for defaming the Wehrmacht, N**i Germany’s army. The prosecutor told Wagner he had received a 27-page ...

17/11/2020

Are the scientist couple behind BionTech characteristic of German success in integrating its largest immigrant community - the approximately four million Deutschtürken - or are they in fact an exception?

09/11/2020

Despite all the benefits of walking, the world's cities are still dominated by cars. According to a new study, Berlin is the most walkable city in Germany.