Berlin travel guides & articles
All 16 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Berlin — newest first.
Walking Berlin at Night Through the Festival of Lights
Ten nights, 33 lit buildings and a four-hour window each evening: how to plan the projections, the dinner before them and the club after.
A Rainy Weekend in Berlin, Planned Room by Room
Berlin's grey weekends go to the people who plan doors rather than distances. Here is the indoor route, with prices, closing days and the bookings you have to make before you arrive.
Rent a Bike in Berlin and Ride the Havel to Potsdam
A flat 35 to 40 km day out of Mitte along the lakes, with which bike to hire, where to stop for lunch and two honest ways to cut it short.
Berlin Marathon Weekend for Everyone Who Isn't Running
The centre of Berlin closes to cars on 27 September 2026, and the people without a bib get the best of it. This is how to plan the three days around someone else's race.
Coffee, Markets and Day Trips for a Berlin October
Where the espresso is worth crossing town for, which market opens on which day, and the regional trains still running before the season shuts down.
Twenty Years on the List for a Berlin Garden Plot
Berlin has 71,000 allotments, a queue measured in decades and a handful of colony pubs that will still serve a stranger lunch. Here is how to see the whole system from the outside.
What Berlin Did With the Bunkers It Couldn't Demolish
Flak towers, shelters and a buried command post: which of Berlin's concrete war structures you can actually walk into in 2026, and what each one demands at the door.
Where to Find Oktoberfest in Berlin in 2026
A practical, honest map of Berlin's Oktoberfest season, from the full Bavarian import near Alexanderplatz to the city's own low-key beer gardens, with 2026 dates, prices, and who each one actually suits.
The Cold War playground: tracing the spies' Berlin
Berlin's Cold War is not sealed behind museum glass — it's a walkable network of real border halls, listening stations and interrogation cells you can still enter, in 2026, in the order the spies themselves used them.
The Cold War Espionage Trail: From Stasi Headquarters to Listening Stations
A street-level route through Berlin's surviving spy infrastructure — Stasi headquarters, a real interrogation prison, an NSA hilltop and the bridge where the Cold War actually traded its prisoners.
Berlin's Other Wall: The City's Street Art Is a Living Museum
Berlin didn't decide to become the world's largest open-air canvas — it stopped trying to stop it, and the result is a city that keeps painting over its own history.
The Berliner's Other Summer: Lakes, Forests, and Where the City Goes to Cool Down
A route-by-route guide to swimming your way out of a Berlin heatwave — from free forest lakes on a transit ticket to day trips worth the regional train.
After Midnight at the Späti: Berlin's Last Classless Room
A calm, route-by-route guide to Berlin's late-night kiosks — where a €1 beer buys you a seat in the one room the city never learned to sort by income.
The best rooftop bars in Berlin for 2026
From bohemian car park gardens to Michelin-starred sky lounges, here is your definitive, queue-tested guide to drinking above the Berlin skyline.
The best stag do spots in Berlin
Axes and boats by day, steins by four, a rooftop at sunset and a club that will actually let ten of you in — the honest, no-BS guide to a Berlin stag that works.
Berlin for foodies: where to eat right now
From smoked fish counters in Charlottenburg to Michelin-level regionalism in Kreuzberg, these are the Berlin tables worth crossing town for today.