Content tagged with Curiosities

32 marble groups of figures & a concrete Louise.

Queen Louise of Prussia looks a bit sad. Standing there, her husband Fredrick William III in the back and Old Fritz to her right, she already seems to have a suspicion. Maybe a forthcoming farewell.

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Why I spent hours at an airport....

The elderly gentleman hurries over to the boarding desk. Even before he gets to it, he’s waving his boarding pass. Just as he reaches the desk, an aircraft passes the window on the runway. The lady

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In Love in Berlin.

Spring has come to the German capital: couples in love have butterflies in their tummy and would like to embrace the whole world – like Sabrina and Andy, Nina and Urs or Angela and Tobias. They love

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Turning the statistics on their head.

In April, a natural Icelandic spectacle with the beautiful yet unpronounceable name Eyjafjallajökull grounded air traffic throughout Europe. Stranded tourists and cancelled trips were the result.

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To star gaze, simply look down.

Some people behave strangely. They stand still without warning, stare fixedly at the ground. Suddenly they lift their heads and a knowing blink of the eyes, combined with a delightful smile, adorns

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What’s the point of piranhas when there’s Berlin?.

Our dear colleague and enthusiastic Berlin blogger, Karin Willms, is currently travelling around South America. There she’s piranha fishing, freezing to death in four pairs of socks, camping on the

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