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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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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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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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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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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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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Hans Scharoun – Villa Schminke in Löbau
A post dedicated to a unique building, a 1930’s villa, whose design has left a deep impression on me. Hans Scharoun is a German architect whose…
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Rotterdam, sky scrappers, pop architecture and industrial culture
Too often neglected by tourists in favour of Amsterdam of course but also other destinations such as The Hague, Utrecht … Rotterdam is worth a stop…
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Discovering the small streets of Athens (2/2)
Today I invite you to accompany me on a stroll through some of Athens’ neighbourhoods. A visit in two posts, of which this is the second.…
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