leisure

The Zeiss Planetarium at Schöneberg is located on the foot of the "Insulaner", one of Berlin's rubble hills.

If you are looking for a "real" flea market to barter and haggle, don't miss out on going to the Schöneberg City Hall.

The freezer area of the Rewe Supermarket is infamous for flirting and where better to start a conversation of what to shop best for?

Berlin toys do not have to be made of plastic and look terribly corny. "Kleine Gesellschaft" shows you a different take on Berlin toys.

Hamburger Bahnhof is one of the world's most renowned and important museums for contempory art.

A picnic with a waterfall - that's what Kreuzberg's Viktoriapark in the neighbourhood of Bergmannstraße stands for.

Centrally located, popular but fairly grubby - that's Mauerpark. It's open season for BBQs there all over, except for a little grove of birches and next to the playground.

Its own open air cinema in summer, a sledding hill in winter, an animal enclosure with deer and wild boars, playgrounds and sports tracks as well as a nature trail provide for some diversity in the 70 ha constituting Volkspark Rehberge.

The small island of Kyritz invites married couples on their anniversary to a cozy time in a log cabin with a special and romantic flair.

On his tour on Jewish life in Berlin guide Jörg Benario treats the touchy subject of the Holocaust rather with wit and a sense of Jewish humour than with uptight embarrassment.