Germany 
Berlin: Fashion Week walks(2)
Tokyo? No! Berlin! It is Fashion Week and there is fashion on and off catwalks all over town. This is a pop-up art installation in a grafitti-covered storefront on spunky Tor Strasse in the Mitte district by the cult sneaker label “Asics”. Featured is the Onitsuka Tiger directional collection and, shown here, two models from [...]
Berlin: Cherry blossoms replace barbed wire
The death trail that once marked the Berlin Wall is alive and well … with cherry blossoms. Every year around the beginning of May, over 1400 cherry trees burst into bloom along this stretch of the erstwhile mined no-man’s land. Now it fills visitors with joy instead of dread. This wonderful display of blooms got [...]
Kaffee and Kuchen with Goethe and Schiller
Weimar and Goethe are to the German speaking world what Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon are to the English speaking world. (more…) This city was called home by the paramount German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Friedrich von Schiller, composers Franz Liszt and Johann Sebastian Bach, the painter Lucas Cranach the elder, the philosopher Johann [...]
Hotels in Weimar
For anyone interested in the German classics, this charming town is a must-see. Stay at the Elephant Hotel, now a member of the Sheraton Luxury Hotel Collection right on the central market square, or the elegant Russischer Hof on the Goetheplatz. In addition, there are many smaller historic buildings that have been converted into hotels [...]