Wish you were here? 1983 GDR postcard of the Hermsdorfer Kreuz 'cloverleaf' interchange in Thuringia

I’ve been travelling the homeland lately. Mate a new friend!

Remember me and my buddy Asaf are doing the big Cold War & Nature bike ride 3 Saturdays this year:

📆 May 25
📆 Aug 3
📆 Sep 7

35km, 3 beer garden breaks, loads of hidden sights, and a boat ride home at the end.

If you want to join just ask me for the link!

I think if the plans for Friedrichstrasse had been to make it actually nice, it could have worked 👇

Give a listen to Johnny's podcast but also follow him for some amazing Berlin history videos where brings interesting topics and spins it around with some nice humor. Click that follow button!

Only discovered today that there is actually a pretty nice buffet/canteen scenario on the top floor of galeria kaufhof with a cool view over Alex

Look at how good this looks!

The life and impossible choices of Berlin-Lichtenberg’s Dr. Friedrich Jacobs

From last year’s glorious springtime! Cherry blossoms where the Berlin Wall’s ‘Death Strip’ used to be

Here on the Welsh coast and what do I find? A Cold War-era Czechoslovakian Pragotron station clock 🤓

I worked with Jonny Whitlam Berlin Guide to create a video on the tragic and inspiring Kindertransport statues you can find outside both London Liverpool Street and Berlin Friedrichstrasse Stations👇

My pal Steve and I have popped a couple of maps on my blog -
West Berlin 1957 & East Berlin 1966.

Go have a look at them in high resolution!

Check the link on my profile page to see them.

You’ll find links in the blog post to follow Steve on TikTok, Insta, and YT 🙌

One of the original Chairman of the ANL, Nottingham Forest Manager, Brian Clough:

‘When you tread in something on the street you don’t talk to it, you scrape it off your shoe. Nazism is just as much a disease as cholera and leprosy and it must be treated to stop it spreading.

Shout out to the five History Flakes listeners in Boise, Idaho

The Berlin Type Map is OUT NOW.
Get your copy from the Blue Crow Media website, or wherever good books and maps are sold.
bluecrowmedia.com/en-de/products…

Nice day today, doing walking tour of communist Neukölln, with the help of this cool book!

Widerstandskämpfer Viertel 💪

Loads of streets in Lichtenberg are named after communists who resisted the Nazis

Good morning from the office (it’s there, where I’m pointing)