Berlin travel guides & articles
All 8 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Berlin — newest first.
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.
Berlín para foodies: dónde comer ahora
Desde mostradores de pescado ahumado en Charlottenburg hasta regionalismo de nivel Michelin en Kreuzberg, estas son las mesas de Berlín por las que vale la pena cruzar la ciudad hoy.