23 posts categorized "Berlin Day Trips"
Statues and dragons (A day out in Potsdam)
In Potsdam, as in Paris, stone profiles play hide-and-seek between the trees. Broad gravel paths, verdant lawns hazed with weeds, and curlicued ironwork gates evoke a world more distant than the half-hour journey from Berlin might lead you to expect.......
A grand day out in Linum
The rarest of days off: we seized it, and lit out for Linum. Our first stop was the restaurant Kleines Haus, opened in 2009 by Frank Buthmann after stints as a chef at Vau and Weinstein. Leg of lamb with......
Cherry-picking at the Haus am Waldsee (Berlin Biennale)
The cherry trees in front of the Haus am Waldsee are full of fruit. Before we visited the Berlin Biennale, we loitered in the villa's garden and ate our fill. The back garden had the air of a children's party,......
A walk around Schloss Charlottenburg
Sun bathed the vast snowy gardens behind the Schloss Charlottenburg. The frozen river was melting, leaving the ducks dodging the ice floes. After exploring the playground at the northern fringe of the park, we retreated to the Brauhaus Lemke across......
In the Grunewald
Each Thursday, the older children in S’s kindergarten spend the day in the forest. This week, I joined them. We took the train to Grunewald station, then walked to the sand dunes. I wish I could share photographs of the......
A golden city (Sunday in the Tiergarten)
Oh autumn, here you are. Breakfast at Café am Neuen See, last visited on a snowy day, then we wove through the tangle of paths in the northern part of the Tiergarten....
On Peacock Island
Many know there's an island full of peacocks in southwest Berlin. Only when I was amidst them did the peacocks surprise me. I found them nestled in patches of dried grass and ducking their beaks into a rejected smear of......