Filed 10/7/2019 | It’s the slowest fast food restaurant in the world. You’d be waiting a whopping great time for your burger – longer,...

Filed 6/4/2018 | Time kindly overlooked the Wiesenburg while the rest of Berlin’s ruins were cleared or rebuilt after the war. Despite...

Filed 2/4/2018 | I ran past Spreepark today and was distraught to see what the city (Grün Berlin) has already done to it. Trees around ...

Filed 5/2/2018 | Updated 12/2/2018 The Berlin Wall’s been rearing its ugly head again, muscling its way into the news. Today is what the ...

Filed 29/1/2018 | The call came late. Giant abandoned Dönerfabrik. A location. Wow! It was well dark already but there wasn’t a moment t...

Filed 4/12/2017 | Oh, how it aches! It suffers in silence on the banks of the Havel, dreams and memories flowing like the past into Rö...

Filed 10/10/2017 | Updated 7/11/2017 Little could he have known as he made his way surreptitiously through Germany in 1917 that stone sta...

Filed 11/6/2017 | Updated 12/6/2017 Of all the Casanovas out there, East Germans were the worst for leaving broken hearts on the scraph...

Filed 15/4/2017 | Updated 26/8/2019 NOTE: These two buildings have been demolished by paid mercenaries. So ist Berlin. There’s nothing ...

Filed 5/11/2016 | Scattered haphazardly all around, like bones in a bombed-out graveyard, Jüterbog’s ruins reluctantly await their fate....

Filed 6/9/2013 | Updated 31/10/2016 Lenin is a lonely man. He’s the only one left, gazing forlornly across the overgrown lawn, abandone...

Filed 30/8/2016 | Around this time last year, a documentary-maker from Barcelona by the name of Jordi Busquets got in touch to make a shor...

Filed 25/4/2010 | Updated 12/8/2015 Nearly too knackered by the time I arrived to do any exploring at all. More than 40 kilometers on a...

Filed 5/8/2016 | She only floats in her dreams. The river laps inquisitively at her sides. Is everything alright? No, no it’s fuckin’ no...

Filed 18/6/2016 | Mit Vergnügen recently asked me to write about 11 abandoned places in and around the German capital. They're all o...

Filed 18/5/2016 | Germans like nothing better than telling you what you aren’t allowed do. It’s the national pastime, always has been....

Filed 11/6/2011 | Updated 12/05/2016 Shadowed by fear, consumed by guilt, somewhere in the contradiction of nowhere lies a forgotten cit...

Filed 29/4/2016 | The drugs alone aren’t enough. They don’t work. In fact, they just make you worse, as The Verve once sung . But I kn...

Filed 3/4/2016 | Updated 9/4/2016 Berlin has more airports than sense. It goes through them faster than your average Berliner goes throug...

Filed 16/3/2016 | The book has won an award! It was singled out for praise at the ITB BuchAwards 2016 last Friday, when I was presented wi...