Stuttgart is home to two automotive legends – Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Both have museums there. The two companies worked closely together in 1991-1994 to produce the Mercedes 500E, the super sports sedan of its era. It was based on a Mercedes E-class designed for a smaller straight-six engine. Mercedes didn’t Read more
Berlin’s tramway network stretches to nearly 200 km. But not all of Berlin’s trams are accounted for in this figure. After I visited every single S-Bahn and U-Bahn stop, I went to every single tram stop in Berlin. Part of that included the extended overland tramway. Three lines, the 87 Read more
Berlin has Europe’s fourth-largest tram network. But not all of Berlin’s trams are accounted for in this figure. After I visited every single S-Bahn and U-Bahn stop, I went to every single tram stop in Berlin. Part of that included the extended overland tramway. Three lines, the 87 Woltersdorf Tramway Read more
Berlin had the world’s fifth-longest tramway. But not all of Berlin’s trams are accounted for in this figure. After I visited every single S-Bahn and U-Bahn stop, I went to every single tram stop in Berlin. Part of that included the extended overland tramway. Three lines, the 87 Woltersdorf Tramway Read more
The two of us met in Berlin back in 2016 and have remained fast friends since. He’s visited me once in Hong Kong in 2019, but most of our memories remain in Germany. Back then, we met up at least every other weekend to go cycling, or cook, or do Read more
The history of Chatham is tightly linked to the legacy of the Underground Railroad that helped up to 100,000 black slaves escape to free states and to Canada. In nearby Dresden, Reverend Josiah Henson bought 100 acres of land to establish the Dawn Settlement in the 1830s to provide escaped Read more
Whether by bike or on foot exploring the best of Nanaimo should take no more than a day. The best way to get there is by a 20 minute flight from downtown Vancouver to downtown Nanaimo by seaplane, this way you can see everything and make it on a same Read more
The University of Ottawa is so old that its establishment predates the naming of Ottawa to its current name. It was originally formed in 1848 and incorporated by parliament as the College of Bytown in 1849. It was renamed the College of Ottawa in 1861 after Bytown was renamed to Read more
Housed in a deceiving small building, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum is home to a large cavernous underground exhibition area – in part to prevent direct sunlight from its collections and in part to allow for more open space on ground level. Its flagship exhibit is of course the huge blue Read more
The U-boot Museum in Hamburg has some tourists confused. First of all, the pennant number U-434 was not the vessel’s number – it was B-515. Furthermore, it is not an infamous German U-boat from WWII, it was a Soviet submarine that was decommissioned only in 2001 and converted into a Read more