Germany holidays
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Berlin’s classy cocktail pioneer: raise a glass to the Victoria BarThe west Berlin bar is famed for its Sunday afternoon lectures; now, thanks to a companion book in English, non-German speakers can educate themselves while sampling its extensive cocktail list
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Refugees tell a different Berlin storyOn a new tour of sites in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, some of the city’s refugee population share their experiences with tourists
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An insider's cultural guide to Dortmund: honest, rough … and adorableFrom open-air salsa to monstrous illustrations and Borussia Dortmund’s ‘miracle’, Julia Sellmann cheers for the largest city in the Ruhr
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World view: Let there be lager … Oktoberfest, MunichBalloons float above the Theresienwiese fairgrounds, Munich, in this image by visual artist Ekaterina Mishchenkova of the city during its Oktoberfest celebrations
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Berlin Atonal festival review – serious techno worship and dumb funAs a cathedral to techno music this ex-power station is unbeatable: some DJs conjured epic sounds through its huge structure. And those that didn’t wore wigs
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The war on Görli: could cleaning up Berlin destroy the reason people love it?A police crackdown on drug dealing in tiny Görlitzer park has sparked protests against anti-migrant racism – and raised fears that as Kreuzberg gentrifies, the city’s liberal values and counterculture are under threat
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10 of the best ways to enjoy Berlin … on a budgetSee fine art and classical music for free, eat great-value street food and stay in cheap but very stylish hostels … Here are 10 ways to have a brilliant time in Berlin
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The best of Leipzig, Germany: readers' travel tipsBeer gardens and beach parties, a historic football ground and a trip in a Trabant … our readers share their favourite spots in the city
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G7 summit brings back memories of working at Schloss Elmau in 1976Letters: Arriving there as a naive 18-year-old farmer’s daughter from North Yorkshire was certainly an eye-opener
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Travel writer Diana Hubbell on Clärchens Ballhaus ballroom, Mitte, BerlinSaved from dereliction a decade ago, the faded grandeur of this 19th-century Berlin ballroom now reflects the dance moves of the neighbourhood’s vibrant inhabitants – be they twenty- or seventysomethings
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How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the cityBerlin has the highest density of goshawk territories anywhere in the world. Since moving to the city, Amy Liptrot has delighted in the joys of watching these spectacular birds up close
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What the Brandenburg Gate's pop-up horses say about the state of Berlin's public artAs part of the 70th-anniversary commemorations marking the end of the second world war in Europe, 20 monumental horses have been installed in the heart of Berlin. But why are they only here for one week?
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Roman Rappak, lead singer of Breton, on the Salon Zur Wilden Renate club in BerlinThis rambling club in an old Berlin mansion feels like a house party, with friendly punters, gardens to chill out in and even a maze in the cellar
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Berlin's flat-roofed Hufeisensiedlung – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 16This horseshoe crescent and its ‘un-German’ roof epitomised modernist values – in opposition to the folkish pitched-roof fantasies loved by the Nazis
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Musician Jon Ouin on the Michelberger Hotel, BerlinThe Stornoway keyboard player loves the absurd and incongruous style of this converted factory in Berlin’s Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg area
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We have ways of making you talk: how films survive the dubbing processWatching German versions of Inherent Vice, Chappie, Selma and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence reveals how much of the language of cinema is universal
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From grotesque to quirky: a history of Berlin told through U-Bahn typographyFrom the ‘authentically German’ typography used by the Nazis, to the ‘boogying Octopuss’ lettering of the late 70s, the fonts of Berlin’s transport system spell out the chequered past of Germany’s capital
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Nazis and candy drops: Tempelhof airport through history – in picturesFrom Orville Wright to the Nazis and the infamous Berlin Airlift, Tempelhof has been ground zero for some momentous events in 20th-century history
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Everything Everything’s Jeremy Pritchard on Berlin’s Museum of ThingsMundane objects take on a new meaning in the context of this fascinating museum on Berlin’s Oranienstrasse and is a great place to contemplate history
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DJ Daley Padley, aka Hot Since 82, on Watergate, BerlinThe DJ always loves playing this Berlin club, with its fantastic crowd and magical sunrise over the river
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Berlin's rat baths: inside the ruined swimming palace Blub – in picturesThe atmospherically ruined ‘air and bathing paradise’ Blub has been abandoned to rodents, graffiti and teenage partiers. Ciarán Fahey of Abandoned Berlin dives in
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The foodie traveller … on German tree cakes in DresdenOne of Germany’s most beloved cakes is also one of the hardest to make – but this family-run bakery has it down to an art
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Bringing it all back home: how techno is poised to return to DetroitDimitri Hegemann runs one of the biggest techno clubs in Berlin. Now he wants to bring that success to the genre’s birthplace. But can his vision work?
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