Olympic Village Berlin (Olympisches Dorf) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 119)
The Olympic Village Berlin in Elstal was the first brick-on-brick Olympic village and is therefore the oldest Olympic village still in existence. It was built for the 1936 Olympics. In the beginning, it was…
Südgelände Park – In A Berlin Minute (Week 128)
Excited to share with you a new discovery that has immediately become my favorite park: Natur-Park Südgelände (south area) in the neighborhood Schöneberg. This park was once a train yard (more specifically a classification yard or marshalling yard),…
Occupy Wall Street – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 76)
Since September 17th a few hundred people have been occupying Zuccotti Park (aka Liberty Square), a square in the Financial District in Manhattan close to Wall Street – calling the action Occupy Wall Street….
Urban Birds – In A Berlin Minute (Week 40)
Birds, birds, birds. Berlin is full of urban birds. They’re eating, fighting, mating, sleeping – like all Berliners. They just don’t have to go to work, nor do they have to go clubbing…
Reichstag – In A Berlin Minute (Week 170)
The Berlin building referred to as the Reichstag (officially: Reichtagsgebäude) today houses the Bundestag, which is the name for the German parliament. It was originally opened in 1894 when Germany was still the…
Viktoriapark, Kreuzberg – In A Berlin Minute (Week 125)
Viktoriapark is an urban park, which opened in the Kreuzberg neighborhood in 1894. Its significant sights are the monument (designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel) on top of the hill commemorating the liberation war during…
1st Time Skiing – Loveland Ski Area – In A Colorado Minute (Week 207)
This week, Scott and I went skiing for the first time ever. What happens when you take a grown woman from the flat lands of Hamburg, Germany, up to the Loveland Ski Area…
Occupy Wall Street on Nov 17 – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 81)
November 17th marked two months of We Are The 99 Percent and Occupy Wall Street. The original call had been for a 2-months occupation. Now a global day of action was planned for November…
