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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).
The Queen's Gambit 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.
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.
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.
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Exploring the Flugplatz Oranienburg with Drones
What remains of the Flugplatz Oranienburg can be seen not that far away from the Oranienburg Hauptbahnhof. Built before the Second World War, between 1936 and 1939, this abandoned airfield was used until 1945 by the Luftwaffe and the Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg.
Gatower Mühle: The New Windmill in Gatow
The Gatower Mühle is one of eight windmills still standing in Berlin. This one can be found in Gatow, a neighbourhood south of Spandau and across the waters from Grunewald. And since we have been looking for windmills around Berlin for a while now, we had to write...
Architectural Travel around Europe: Our Favorite Architecture around the Continent
Everybody has a reason to travel around Europe. Some people like to see the traditional sights of every city, other people want to taste food and others want to feel like a local. Personally, I just realized that my style of traveling could be described as...
Western City Gate in Belgrade: Documenting an icon of Brutalism in Serbia
The Western City Gate, also known as Genex Tower or Kula Geneks in Serbian, is a massive skyscraper in Belgrade and can be seen from all around town. The 35 storeys tall building is an icon of architectural brutalism with its two connected towers and even a revolving...
Thirteen Locations where the Netflix’s series Dark was filmed around Berlin
If you watch Netflix as much as we do, you already know about their series Dark. Some people say that the series is similar to Stranger Things since the city where everything happens in this series is a massive part of the mystery in the series. But Winden, the city...
Berlin Bunkers: Abandoned Air Shelters around the German Capital
Berlin is a city that still carries scars from a war that ended more than seventy years ago. You can see it on the walls of some old buildings and on all the air shelters that still exist today. Berlin Bunkers are everywhere, and we’re going to talk about some of them...
Lake Bodom Murders – We visited where everything happened
When we were figuring out our plans for NBE Finland, something caught our eyes and it wasn’t the helicopter ride over Helsinki or the fact that we would feed reindeers in Espoo. Something else caught our eyes and it was Lake Bodom, the place where the notorious Lake...
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.