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• Refill Berlin - Where to find free tap water in Berlin 6 years ago Refill Berlin is a non-profit scheme aiming to make free tap water available throughout the city to anyone with a refillable water bottle. The Refill movement started in Bristol, England in 2015 when Natalie Fee set out to create “an easily accessible, free network of shops, cafes and restaurants...
• Berlin's Zig Zag Cycle Path 6 years ago Germans have a reputation for being efficient and serious but the zig zag cycle path that appeared on a street in Berlin Zehlendorf suggests that the stereotype doesn’t apply to everyone. A photo of the cycle path captioned ‘Tetris Radweg’ was the first thing I saw when I opened Facebook on...
• Sunday Shopping in Berlin - Verkaufsoffener Sonntag 6 years ago One of the things that most surprised me about Berlin when I moved here is that shops, as a general rule, remain closed on Sundays and public holidays. In addition to exceptions for a few supermarkets at the city’s busiest train stations there are though up to 10 days when Sunday opening is...
• Klein Glienicke - An East German Enclave in West Berlin 6 years ago With its grand villas, alpine chalet-style houses, waterside views, and cobbled streets, Klein Glienicke is a charming village, popular with day-trippers. But for 28 years this idyllic settlement on the Potsdam border was an East German enclave separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall and only...
• People on Sunday - Berlin Docufiction From a Bygone Era 6 years ago A mixture of documentary and loosely scripted drama, the black and white film, People on Sunday was a surprise hit when it was released in February 1930 in Berlin. Described in the titles as Film Studio 1929’s ‘first experiment…a film without actors’, the main action in People on Sunday...

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