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Where Germany, Netherlands and Belgium meet close to Aachen
My first time visiting a three country border was when I visited Aachen, the westernmost city in Germany. It took me a few hours on a train to get there but I didn’t care, I wanted to go there to see the city and to see where Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium meet, just to be able to run from one country to the other.
Where can we find the Winden Cave?
If you’ve watched the Netflix series Dark, you know that one of the key locations in this crazy series is the Winden Cave. There you can find the passage to travel through time that links 1953, 1986, and 2019. But, since we saw it on TV for the first time, we wondered where we could find the cave in Dark.
Dark Locations around Berlin
The story in Dark begins with a teenager gone missing and a series of unexplained events that overwhelm four families in the town of Winden. Tall trees, subterranean caves that are not what they seem, a dark forest that could be the source of all the mystery and a small town community where everybody knows each other for as long as they have been living there. This is the setting of Dark, and we loved it so much that we need to know where was it filmed.
David Bowie's Berlin - a tour of Bowie's Berlin years
I’ll be presenting you David Bowie’s Berlin. His house, his studio, his favorite bars and some super useful information you’ll find in this guide. All with addresses, maps, and photos. In the 3 years David Bowie lived in Berlin in the 70s recording the “Berlin Trilogy”, he left his mark on the city. When I say “Berlin Trilogy” I’m referring to Low (1977), Heroes (1977), and Lodger (1979).
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Gyeongbokgung, the Royal Palace of Seoul
Gyeongbokgung is the largest and oldest of Seoul's imperial palaces. It was built four years after the beginning of the most prosperous and long-lasting Korean dynasties, Joseon.Over the centuries, Gyeongbokgung underwent many changes, countless expansions,...
Where was the Queen’s Gambit filmed in Berlin?
Like everyone else that watches Netflix way too much, we have been following the hype around the Queen’s Gambit. But it wasn’t just about the exciting plot and Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon. It was personal because we knew that most of the scenes in the Queen’s Gambit were filmed in Berlin.
Zaemiro: Seoul’s street dedicated to Comic books
In Zaemiro (Jaemilo), there is a half kilometer street in South Korea's capital city that was all dedicated to "Manhwa." If you are like me and speaks a total of 0% of Korean, let me help you: Manhwa is the Korean word for "comic book." This street in Zaemiro...
Exploring the Soviet Memorials located around Berlin
Here we are going to talk a bit about the most famous Soviet Memorials in Berlin and some smaller ones as well. These three soviet memorials are mostly well known, and they were built to commemorate the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. The Soviet Memorial in the Tiergarten was the first to…
The Späti where Luka Magnotta was arrested in Berlin
In 2012, Luka Magnotta murdered Lin Jun and released a video online where you could see him killing his victim and abusing his corpse. At the time, he was in Canada, and he fled to Europe. First to Paris and then to Berlin, where he was arrested. When we watched Don't...
Korean skincare and street food, a shopping guide in Myeongdong
Since korean skincare products are amazing but also not very known in Europe, I did a small list for this shopping guide in Myeongdong
Queen’s Gambit Locations: Schloss Schulzendorf as the Methuen Home orphanage
While we were watching the Queen's Gambit on Netflix, some locations seem to be familiar to us. Some places that were supposed to be foreign, like Moscow and Mexico City, looked like places we recognized from our daily life here in Berlin. With this thought in mind,...
Soviet Memorial in the Tiergarten
The Soviet Memorial in the Tiergarten is one of the many war memorials that can be found around Berlin. From the prominent memorials erected by the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War, this is the most famous and most visited since it lies close to...
Vogelsang: Exploring an Abandoned Soviet Military Base
Vogelsang used to be more than just a Soviet military base. This place used to be a city filled with secrets and soldiers, but today it lays empty in Brandenburg while it rots away in the middle of a forest.