by finn ballard | Oct 11, 2018 | Blog
A detail of the incredible Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park.
by finn ballard | Oct 4, 2018 | Blog
A break from Nazis and Stasi for this month, to recommend you a book which I devoured in two sittings during my recent trip to Belgrade: John Waller’s ‘A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518’. During the...
by finn ballard | Sep 27, 2018 | Blog
I feel so lucky to live in such a beautiful area of Berlin! Rathaus Schöneberg is just beautiful.
by finn ballard | Sep 20, 2018 | Blog
Since this month heralds the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Berlin Airlift (more on that below), the hero has to be Colonel Gail Halvorsen of the US Army Air Forces. On approach to Tempelhof Airport, Halvorsen’s signal of dipped wings was the alert for...
by finn ballard | Sep 13, 2018 | Blog
A few months ago, I had a fascinating wander through the Haus des Rundfunks, the world’s oldest broadcasting unit, active since 1929!
