Atlas Obscura • 21st November 2024

Your Guide to Germany’s Coziest Winter Customs

From cookies to crafts, Germany is home to a host of charming seasonal traditions.

Travel & Leisure • 16th November 2024

How I Find Endless Inspiration in Germany’s Cultureland

Travel writer Barbara Woolsey goes off the beaten path to find remarkable art, music, and cultural curiosities in her beloved Germany.

Thrillist • 29th October 2024

Forget Berghain, These Are the Best Secret Bars in Berlin

There’s nothing more Berlin than an unmarked door.

Atlas Obscura • 8th October 2024

The Enduring Mystery of the Loretto Chapel Staircase

This staircase and its construction have dumbfounded visitors for decades.

ZEIT Campus • 15th August 2024

Family Matters

Academics from abroad are balancing parenting and careers, for better or worse. University administrators are trying to help

ZEIT Campus • 15th August 2024

Subject matters

New to Germany? Start your education with a crash course in life and studies and impress your profs and peers along the way

Atlas Obscura • 18th April 2024

Hai Som Tam Convent

For some of Bangkok’s best Isaan food, look no further than this shop-kitchen tucked onto prime street food territory.

Thrillist • 16th April 2024

The Solo Traveler’s Guide to Going to a Music Festival Alone

As an experienced festival-goer (also a travel writer and DJ), here's why solo festival-going is more enriching and enjoyable than you might think.

Atlas Obscura • 28th March 2024

Modern Stone Age Kitchen

At Modern Stone Age Kitchen (MSAK), brunch is a museum-worthy experience.

Atlas Obscura • 25th January 2024

Jokkmokk Market

Since 1606, Sámi Indigenous peoples have gathered in Jokkmokk, a village of around 2,500 people, in Sápmi, as the Sámi call their ancestral homeland.

Lonely Planet • 11th November 2023

Berlin’s new era of club culture

The stakes are high: Berlin’s fate as a hotspot for counterculture alternative lifestyles hangs in the balance due to club closures.

Atlas Obscura • 18th October 2023

Malakeh

Syrian eatery Malakeh is not just about heartfelt food; it showcases the resilience of its chef-owner Malakeh Jazmati.

Lonely Planet • 16th August 2023

Berlin in 5 Shops: flea market finds and club-friendly styles

Berlin’s shopping scene can be best described as a (or cabinet of curiosities).

Lonely Planet • 7th August 2023

You’ll see this everywhere: Spätis in Berlin

In Berlin, those pint-sized late-night shops you see everywhere are Späti, and they’re integral to the city’s everyday life.

Lonely Planet • 31st July 2023

6 of the best things to do with kids in Berlin: picnics and all-ages parties

Here’s what you need to know when traveling with kids in Berlin.

Lonely Planet • 28th July 2023

The best time to visit Berlin

Berlin is a place that makes boredom impossible.

Thrillist • 10th May 2022

The 9 Best Night Markets Around the World

An article on Asian night markets around the world – editorial package that has won a The James Beard Foundation Award for Innovative Storytelling! 🏆✍️

Wine Enthusiast • 8th April 2021

In the Philippines, Coconut Wine Is a Symbol of Pride and Resistance

Tuba is the favorite drink of those in the Philippines’ rural south, and especially in populous Visayan Islands like Leyte. Many Filipinos recognize tuba’s importance, thanks to its deep-rooted history and enduring social and cultural impact.

Babbel Magazine • 19th February 2021

Making Space For Europe’s Endangered Languages

On February 21, Mother Language Day promotes linguistic diversity and action against language discrimination. During the Covid-19 pandemic, language equality has become more important than ever.

The Telegraph • 22nd April 2018

Sliver of Germany's mighty gold stash goes on show for the first time

Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, has opened an exhibition of its hefty gold reserves after recalling half of its bullion from foreign vaults.

Culture Trip • 30th August 2019

Experience Multicultural Berlin Through These Local Heroes

Meet the DJ hosting Moscow house parties in Berlin, the mind behind a legendary noodle house and the shop owner fighting censorship with books.

October • 22nd October 2019

Black Female Brewers Are Reclaiming Craft Beer in South Africa

In South Africa’s black Xhosa and Zulu ethnicities, women were traditionally in charge of brewing umqombothi. Beer-making turned into a man's job during the industrial period, but now South Africa's craft beer scene is seeing young black females come up as brewmasters.

The Guardian • 3rd April 2020

A new form of house music: Berlin clubs livestream DJ sets

With bars, nightclubs and restaurants closed to slow the spread of Covid-19, nightlife in Berlin was expected to come to a halt. But no, the beats are still thumping. The city’s premier “virtual club” is now in session.

Reuters • 27th March 2020

'Cooking for heroes': Michelin-starred restaurant helps Berlin medics fight coronavirus

A Michelin-starred restaurant in Berlin forced to close its doors by the coronavirus lockdown has turned its culinary skills to helping to feed doctors, nurses, policemen and firefighters who cannot work from home.

thrillist • 21st May 2019

Amsterdam's Red Light District is About to Change. Here's How Sex Workers Feel About It

Window prostitution has been practiced throughout the Netherlands since the end of the 19th century, but the city's recent ban on red-light tours is the first of its kind.

The Guardian • 9th May 2019

Berlin anti-gentrification activists fight to keep ... the local Aldi

The residents of Berlin’s Kreuzberg district have become renowned for their impassioned clashes against capitalism. Now, they’ve stepped up to defend an unexpected establishment: the local branch of Aldi, a supermarket with a €50bn annual turnover.

Reuters • 5th April 2019

Germany's new Bauhaus museum set for interactive opening

The new Bauhaus museum opens its doors to the public for the first time in the east German city of Weimar on Saturday after three years of construction, giving admirers of the world-famous “form follows function” aesthetic a new place of pilgrimage.

Scoot • 1st February 2019

Mic's the Word

A dynamic spoken word scene is boldly reverberating in Malaysia's capital. Barbara Woolsey takes a seat in the audience and tunes in to the melodic strains of Kuala Lumpur's poetic underground.

The Guardian • 17th October 2017

Berlin’s popular Thai Park faces threat of closure

The iconic but illegal Preussenpark food market could become a victim of its own success as officials clamp down over hygiene and safety regulations.

Reuters • 20th April 2016

Germany marks 500 years of beer purity law

The sound of clinking glass fills the room as a monk inspects one of hundreds of beer bottles passing along the production line at Andechs monastery in Bavaria.

Vice Munchies • 2nd December 2016

The Rise of India’s Coffee Revolution

Indians have never been big coffee drinkers. Sure, the West's irreplaceable daily perk has existed in the South Asian country for centuries—as the story goes, those first prodigious beans were smuggled out of Yemen by an Indian Muslim saint around 600 years ago.

Bangkok Post • 21st October 2010

Burma's healthcare reaches crisis point

The health of people living in eastern Burma is among the worst in the world.