City views

Cities are a source of inspiration, find my publications on this theme here. Don’t expect to find the most popular places, I will try to take you elsewhere.

My posts on Berlin are on a dedicated page.

My posts as I published them:

Hamburg, around the harbour

This post follows the one I wrote about the warehouse and trading post area of Hamburg https://wherever-it-is.com/2022/09/16/the-counter-district-kontorhausviertel-in-hamburg/ These two districts date from the end of the…

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25th November 202220th November 2022

Travel diary: Magdeburg

Magdeburg is the capital of the German state of Saxony Anhalt. Although located close to Berlin, it is not well known by Berliners and tourists in…

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30th September 202218th September 2022

The counter district (Kontorhausviertel) in Hamburg

Hamburg’s maritime vocation goes back a long way and many districts are linked to this activity. One of these districts, the “comptoirs”, dates from the beginning…

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16th September 20224th September 2022

Wroclaw, Breslau, two names for one city (Part 2)

After a first post that took us up to the first world conflict, here is the continuation. Wroclaw is a city of great architectural wealth. When…

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15th July 202215th July 2022

Wroclaw, Breslau, two names for one city (Part 1)

Some regions of Europe remind us that borders have moved a lot over the last centuries, such as Breslau, now Wroclaw, in Silesia. This city belonged…

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9th July 20229th July 2022

Bauhaus: ADGB school in Bernau, a UNESCO site

A look back at one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites near Berlin: the ADGB trade union school. The UNESCO-listed Bauhaus architecture in Germany is grouped…

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25th June 2022