Just me having a normal one hbu?

Very interesting chap! youtu.be/96g6cnzPWZ0

Oops! Mother in law is visiting me in Berlin, she slipped and fell, broke her arm. Hospital is giving her a cast and says she needs an operation, which she said she'd get done on her return to UK. Anyone know how that would work? How to book in? Appointment with GP? Straight to A&E? Or sthing else?

The worst accident in U-Bahn history. 18 dead and 21 injured as a carriage plummeted from the elevated track at Gleisdreieck. A driver missed the signals, which had functioned correctly, leading to a head-on collision.

Couple of spaces left on both of tomorrow’s group tours: 11:00 Weimar Berlin 14:00 Ku’damm Tickets & info 👉 www.whitlams-berlin-tours.com/group-tours

East German national building program poster showing the Hochhaus an der Weberwiese, clearing rubble, and Strausberger Platz.

Since the temperatures have dropped I have been enjoying: Tea Red wine Whisky Jumpers September is the best!

Would’ve been cool though

Berlin’s first underground trains mostly went above ground, but after *that* we were supposed to get some really cool suspended trains, just like in Wuppertal! Instead, we got the U8 ☠️

The murder of Horst Wessel and the birth of A martyr; a sacrifice for the re-birth of a nation. A nation ‘returning itself to glory’. It’s all happened before.

How East Berlin’s Lenin lost his head (and the rest of his body).

The view into town from Strausberger Platz 👇

Nice little milestone today - 20,000 YouTube subscribers!

Also, I took a moody Guinness photo yesterday and now you’re looking at it. How about that?

My latest Berlin in-depth video now on YouTube

Cyclists on the side of the old DDR House of Teachers. Part of Walter Womacka’s “Unser Leben” mosaic. (Apologies for all the moaning this moaning - here’s something pretty to enjoy!)

Cyclists on the side of the old DDR House of Teachers. Part of Walter Womacka’s “Unser Leben” mosaic. (Apologies for all the moaning this moaning - here’s something pretty to enjoy!)

We have reached the first day where the trains are heated. Heated! People in down jackets, woollen coats, and scarves. It’s 13° with a high of 20°. Are Germans just… always cold?

The decapitation of wax Hitler (by an absolute legend)

youtube.com/watch?v=1qGD... via @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social

This chap out here never doing anything he enjoys twice.

Three more group tours coming up this month 🥳 And a newsletter you can sign up for to be the first to know when the next ones are happening. How spoiled! Link below 👇

Anyone else catch the blood moon tonight?

🥙 Goethe 🥙

Why did Hitler kill his dog before killing himself?

Relevant advertising tho

My good pal, fellow guide, and award-nominated radio presenter Matti Geyer told me stories from Berlin and Europe’s largest Jewish cemetery in my latest long format video. Check it out below 👇

Vending machine cheesecake.

Schultheiss Bier Palast, 1897

This sign is inside the €1 toilets in Friedrichstrasse station.

Once, when I was coming out of Hasenheide park, I saw the police stopping everyone as they walked by. When I got there they asked me if I had just “bought drugs in the park?” I said “no, but do you know where I can get any?” and they didn’t find it at all funny.

A couple of spots opened up at 11am on Saturday due to cancellations, in case you missed your chance 👀 Pay what you want intro to Berlin tour!

Haters will say it’s not a blessing from the gods 🙏

This on a video about some quite pretty architecture 🤷🏼‍♂️

Why not grab 2 friends, rent a car, and see some WWII tunnel history in Poland? I did a little road trip to Stalag Luft III and Książ castle with some friends back in March. It made a for a fun weekend. Give it a go!

Do they store it next to the Dick Milch?

Very few spots left 👇

Flicker screen fixed! The power of whining 🙏

Of the 8 screens @deutschebahn.com installed at Rummelsburg Station a week or two ago, only 5 work. One has been flashing on and off rapidly 24 hours per day. The station serves a line that is currently kaput in two locations, but at least it’s near the Ringbahn, which is also kaput 🫠🫠🫠

Some group tours coming up for ya 👇 Sign up: www.whitlams-berlin-tours.com/link-in-bio

Gaststätte Inselparadies - Designed by Ulrich Müther and built in 1966. A prestige building of the GDR, it was home to a Café, Bar and Kiosk. After extensive renovations and multiple concepts over the years, a new cafe opened in the summer of 2025.

Cool off with a little Alexanderplatz history* *this won’t work

New podcast episode out this morning! Pip told me all about the life and crimes of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. Many people know he was brought to the US and helped them get to the moon, but just how deeply involved was he was the Nazi system of terror? Spoiler: a lot!

Berlin folk - I'm organising a trip for a group of Scottish folk (mainly pensioners) next year. Any tips on things they might not find in traditional guide books? Good restaurants, cafes, biergarten etc? We've already got a tour with @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social on our list.

July 1950: the Communist hymn „Die Partei hat immer recht“ is performed for the first time in East Berlin www.deutschlandfunk.de/24-07-1950-l...

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Available now as an Ebook! (print copies will start shipping in a month)

The algorithm gods are giving this one a good run - people like it, I think! It’s a mix of history and looking at ruins and new apartments and there’s some sock-in-sandal action too

Ever wondered what I’d sound like if I were a German robot? *Sound on* There’s a new auto-dubbing feature feature on YouTube… 😬

New History Flakes pod out today. Nazis, Commies, WW2, nuclear weapons, spies, and even QUEBEC. Klaus Fuchs’ story has 👏 it 👏 all! 👏

Black Sabbath’s last ever show in Germany (I think?), June 2016. Watched the stream of his final ever-ever show the other day. That concerted raised over £100m for Birmingham. Amazing. What a way to go. Not unexpected, but still shit. RIP Ozzy.