Berlin, Germany — Still under construction. Always open.Berlin, Germany — Still under construction. Always open.Berlin, Germany — Still under construction. Always open.Berlin, Germany — Still under construction. Always open.

Destination · Germany

Berlin, Germany

Still under construction. Always open.

A city that spent forty years divided and thirty more deciding what to do with the wound — and hasn't finished deciding.

11 chapters ahead

Climate

Cold and grey for longer than feels fair, then suddenly warm and golden and everyone is outside until midnight.

Best season

Late May through September — the city runs on outdoor light and the summers are short enough that nobody wastes them.

Atmosphere

  • urban-dense
  • post-industrial
  • cosmopolitan
  • nocturnal
  • artsy
  • modernist
  • culinary
  • walkable
  • intense
  • literary
  • design-forward

The chapters

11 ways to get lost here

Berlin construction crane skyline

Chapter 01

The city that refuses to finish

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Berlin corner shop night

Chapter 02

Breakfast at three in the afternoon

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Berlin döner kebab shop

Chapter 03

Currywurst is not the point

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Berlin industrial club exterior

Chapter 04

The door policy is the art

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Berlin Holocaust memorial concrete stelae

Chapter 05

Two cities, one map, different grief

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Berlin Karl-Marx-Allee socialist architecture

Chapter 06

Every building is an argument

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Kreuzberg street festival crowd

Chapter 07

Five days in May the city exhales

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Berlin contemporary art gallery interior

Chapter 08

The galleries moved east. Then east again.

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Brandenburg an der Havel river waterfront

Chapter 09

The lakes are forty minutes from the door

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Berlin Wall memorial remnant

Chapter 10

Seoul and Berlin share the same scar

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Berlin construction site residential

Chapter 11

The rents are still rising. The artists are still leaving.

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Keep wandering

You’ve finished Berlin. Where next?

Pull a thread at random, fall into the world map, or step back to the front door for the latest dispatches.

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