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In november 2019, it was 30 years ago that the Berlin Wall came down. We looked back at this important moment in history, with a special blog series about the last months before the Berlin Wall came down. We’ve summarized all the articles here below. Enjoy the read! January 18th 1989 – “The Wall will…

Im November 2019 jährte sich der Fall der Berliner Mauer zum 30. Mal. Wir blicken auf diesen wichtigen Moment in der Geschichte zurück mit einer speziellen Blogserie über die letzten Monate vor dem Fall der Berliner Mauer. Hier sind alle Artikel für Sie zusammengefasst. Viel Spaß beim Lesen! 18. Januar 1989 – „Die Mauer wird…

New street art and graffiti from the best city in the world: Berlin Yes, we did hear, there are other cool places for street art, and it might even be bearable to live in those places, but they all have one giant elephant-in-the-room-sized problem, they are not Berlin, and therefore by definition less glorious and…

Looking for Humboldt After last week’s boat ride, we went back to our preferred mode of transportation: our bikes. Normally when Martin and me, go for a ride, we pick a destination a bit outside, take the train and have an actual plan of what we want to see and do. I was fighting some…

Orte der Revolution 1918/19 1918 – der Erste Weltkrieg ist schon lange nicht mehr zu gewinnen, die Menschen hungern, sind des sinnlosen Sterbens überdrüssig. Nachdem es schon im Vorjahr nach der russischen Oktoberrevolution erste Streiks gegeben und die SPD sich unter dem stärker werdenden Druck der Kriegsgegner gespalten hatte, spitzte sich die Lage im Herbst…

Wien per Velo – die K.u.K.  Fahrradtour [Can’t read German? Check pedalpower’s english website] Wann immer es sich ergibt, nutzen wir auch unsere privaten Ferien, um fremde Städte kennen zu lernen. Dabei hilft uns die Mitgliedschaft bei Cycle Cities, einem weltweiten Verbund von Unternehmen wie unserem. Im Juli war die Hauptstadt Österreichs an der Reihe….

A slightly different style of sightseeing While almost nothing in the world of tourism has seen as much abuse as the term “off the beaten path” we actually do try to find and create experiences for those of you, who have already done the checkbox style things every Berlin visitor does sooner or later. So,…

Murals, graffiti, 3D Have fun with our collection of new Berlin street art, from Tegel to Neukölln. All Infos about the artwork in the captions, or on our regular Street Art bike tour, which we also offer in German. As always we weren’t able to identify all artists shown here, so of course you’re very…

Cycling the Andalusian capital One of the great things about our membership in the Cycle Cities network is the fact that you get to meet like-minded people from all over the world that are the perfect first point of contact in a foreign city. In the past we were already lucky enough to go on…

Text auf deutsch Horn and Muck dismantle the Iron Curtain After Hungary’s first steps towards an open border to its neighbour Austria were largely ignored by the general public, what happened on June 27th 1989 showed everyone, that the Iron Curtain wouldn’t only become permeable – it would be history pretty soon. While Hungarians were…

Text auf deutsch One day – two signals #otd June 4th 1989 – a few things happened that might not had a direct impact on the peaceful revolution in Germany but were an important part of the overall development. Mahnmal in Breslau für die Opfer des Tiananmen-Massakers. Zerbrochenes Fahrrad und Panzerspuren. 1. In Beijng military…

Text auf deutsch Gorbimania in the West Gorbachev was a darling of Western politicians from as early as 1986 when he first detailed his plans to “reconstruct” the Soviet Union under the twin labels of Perestroika (~change, redesign) and Glasnost (~openness, transparency) and a lot of freedom-minded citizens in the East took this as a…