Tagged With "Hackescher Markt and Hofe"

I'll be posting some Berlin blogs in the next few weeks, since we visited last month...but for the moment, I'll start with one of our best experiences—a food walking tour. It's a great way to meet other visitors and to experience local foods and their history. We started at a small cafe/sweetshop and ate our way through breads and meats and pastries and ended up at a beer garden run by a small artisanal brewery, where the owner/brewmaster sat with us and then took us on a tour of his...

Lovely. I KNEW I'd seen this Gumbo puzzler before but couldn't place it. Thanks for this article about a fascinating location in Berlin. We had a great time this this summer and last. Full of enticing shops and art installations.

The Gumbo Guessers have done their best with this week's puzzle, but it has defied solution, although Jonathan L got the right city. It's Berlin, alright, a city with two rail transit systems (U-Bahn and S-Bahn) and where poor maintenance caused a...

On our last few trips, we've gotten in the habit of looking around for good eating/walking tours, which allow us to sample a variety of local foods along with some sights, and some well-prepared information about the foods, their history and their...

Jonathan L shares a walk through Berlin's heart and tells us how he fell in love with it.

DrFumblefinger explores Brussel's Grand-Place, the old market square which is lined by an assortment of interesting and beautiful buildings. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Join Jonathan L on a walk through some of the treasures at the museums that make up the city's Museum Island.

A few days in Antwerp gave PHeymont a chance to start storing memories for a future trip.

Delft has long been a centre for fine ceramics, and traditional hand painting methods can still be observed at Royal Delft, the manufacturer of Delft Blue earthenware.

Marilyn visited this picturesque Hanseatic capital on an excursion from her Viking cruise

PHeymont shares 'sights and seens' from his wanderings in the German capital last summer

 When it comes to crafting great food, Belgians do a number of things exceptionally well.  They make excellent french fries (frites), with an interesting assortment of dipping sauces.  They brew some great beer -- many beer lovers say...