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Rashna Gandhi
@Rashnag (30597)
• Surat, India
25 Jan 22
Hi guys,
Hope you all are doing good. I am doing good too. I came across this wonderful news so thought to share it here.
Indian Ambassy in Berlin on Sunday celebrated "Parakram Divas" by...
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John Welford
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
22 Mar 20
This is a bronze artwork that I came across in Berlin during my visit there last year.
It is called "Trains to Death - Trains to Freedom" and it depicts two sets of children. The larger group are about to board a train that will...
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John Welford
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
9 Mar 20
I loved this statue that I came across in a side street in Berlin. I don't know what the story is behind it, or who it represents, but the concept is so original.
Have you ever had that awkward feeling that somebody was looking...
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John Welford
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
9 Mar 20
This is a bridge that crosses the River Spree in Berlin - the Oberbaumbrucke. Road traffic crosses on the left, there is a railway line above our heads, and this is where pedestrians and cyclists can cross in safety.
And strung...
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John Welford
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
3 Mar 20
I had a fascinating time in Berlin last October. My son went to a games convention and asked me along for the ride. I had three clear days to explore the city and tried to make the most of them - taking a huge number of photos in...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
13 Dec 19
I’m once again reading another book for review, I’m not that far into this one, but even just a little ways in I can tell.
In 1921 Francoise Frenkel a Jewish woman from Poland opens the first French bookshop in Berlin, the...
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Jackie Money
@olliesmum (828)
• Norwich, England
18 May 19
Following on from my dad's D Day landing and subsequent journey through Normandy, he eventually got to the Netherlands. Somewhere along the line he and four of his comrades had been separated. They reached a small village and,...
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John Welford
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
30 Nov 18
My son goes to a games convention every year in Stockholm, and he thought that I might like to go with him next time around - only as a tourist, mind you, the games thing is not of the slightest interest to me.
However, he has...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
24 Oct 18
1939 Vintage Books. – Spoiler alerts
Six overlapping stories set against the backdrop of the declining Weimar republic as The Third Reich rose to power. I have already reviewed companion novel Mr Norris Changes...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
23 Oct 18
1935 Minerva Books. Spoiler alerts
A novel often considered being a companion volume to Isherwood’s short story compilation, Goodbye To Berlin, with which it shares some minor characters.
Narrator, William Bradshaw, an...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
3 Mar 18
A good few years back that I asked on various movie blogs and websites and among science fiction fans about a European movie (country unknown to me) inspired by Ray Bradbury's The Veldt) about a killer in a cinema repeating his...
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
20 Dec 16
It seems that The Christian Holidays most certainly make some people feel uncomfortable and this is clearly noted after yesterdays attack by a "man" identified as someone from Afganistan or Pakistan who drove a TRUCK into a...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238284)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 16
I just read that another truck attack has occurred, this one in Berlin Germany. It hasn't been confirmed yet as a terrorist attack, but it sounds like German police think it was an intentional act. I think eight people have died...
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