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Berlin: Reprise of a Grossstadt | Neville Walker | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

I’m sitting at a café table at the former Hotel Esplanade on Potsdamer Platz . . . Except this café has only two walls and they’re preserved like museum pieces behind plate glass.

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Budapest: The Shock of the Old | Neville Walker | Hungary, Budapest, Budapest

I drove into the city as a rosy dusk was settling over it, my destination a hotel on the riverbank facing directly the city’s famously extravagant parliament building

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Building Stuttgart | Neville Walker | Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart

The design principles of the Bauhaus were adopted more enthusiastically here than anywhere else, and enough survives to make Stuttgart an open air museum of the modern movement

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Gdansk | Neville Walker | Poland, Baltic Coast, Gdansk

The guidebooks tie themselves in knots trying to unlock the conundrum of this unique city

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Gran Canaria: Time Out From the Suntan | Neville Walker | Spain, Canary Islands, Gran Canaria

A few miles from the McDonalds, Premiership football and English pubs of Playa del Ingles, people in the Barranco de Guayadeque still live in caves

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Hamburg | Neville Walker | Germany, Hamburg, Hamburg

Even on a moody winter’s day the superb views back to the city’s handsome copper roofs and tall spires are worth the price of an Alster cruise

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Nuremberg | Neville Walker | Germany, Bavaria, Nuremberg

A short game of word association shows what the tourist authorities are up against: Nuremberg rallies, Nuremberg laws, Nuremberg trials

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Poznan | Neville Walker | Poland, other regions of Poland, Poznan

The battle fought in stone and brick on the city’s streets was reflected in the era’s postcards, which variously depict Poznan, Posen, or both

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Stuttgart: Art and Architecture | Neville Walker | Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart

Without Stuttgart there´d be no road movies, no Route 66, no Thelma & Louise, and Janis Joplin would have neither Mercedes nor Porsche

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Trieste: The Ghost of Empire Past | Neville Walker | Italy, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trieste

Trieste is the coffee-importing metropolis of Europe, so it seemed fitting to soak up the sunshine here over a latte macchiato

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Warsaw: The View From a Stalinist Skyscraper | Neville Walker | Poland, Eastern Poland, Warsaw

A little to the north the Old Town stands on the river’s banks, a huddle of red-tiled rooftops on a more intimate scale than the modern city.

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