Hotel Review – The Westin Grand, Berlin, Germany
Image (c) Westin Grand, Berlin As a former resident of and frequent traveller to Berlin I have visited and stayed in a number of hotels in the German capital over…
Grown-up Travel Guide’s Best Photos: The beach at Binz on the island of Rugen, Germany
The charming beach at Binz, just a couple of kilometres from this less than-charming behemoth
Grown-up Travel Guide’s Best Photos: The Russian War Memorial, Berlin
Once the scene of a great deal of East-West Cold War tension (including the murder of a guard) you are now free to visit the memorial which stands in former…
Grown-up Travel Guide’s Best Photos: Apartments on the Autobahn, Berlin, Germany
After the bunker apartments, here's another unique architectural concept . The idea of putting housing on top of a motorway has often been considered but Schlangenbader Strasse in Berlin is…
Grown-up Travel Guide’s Best Photos: Checkpoint Charlie guardhouse, Berlin, Germany
My views on the actors prancing around on the actual site of Checkpoint Charlie are not exactly news to regular followers of Grown-up Travel Guide. Fortunately the rest of the…
Grown-up Travel Guide’s Best Photos: Abandoned fun fair, Berlin, Germany
Does anyone else find this kind of creepy? This fun fair has only been closed since 2001 but has already been reclaimed by nature. Not quite sure what happened to…
Grown-up Travel Guide Daily Photo: Reflections on the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany
View from the former eastern side of the river - note the memorial crosses to people killed trying to get from one side to the other.
Grown-up Travel Guide Daily Photo: Pallasseum, Berlin, Germany
Say you're a town planner. You need to build lots of apartments but in your prime area of choice there's an enormous, above-ground WWII air-raid bunker which cannot be destroyed.…