Category: Helmut Kohl

Categories

Dark Tourism & Toilets

At the end of the previous Blog post about the Ukraine war and how it has affected dark tourism (DT) I promised that I would find a less depressing topic for the next, this Blog post. And so I decided to revive the tradition of the themed post and picked the theme of DT & Toilets. That will have its lighter, even amusing aspects, though of course it’s still about dark tourism, and so must have its serious sides too. I’ll save the funnier ones for the end part of this post – so keep reading to the end!

Where to begin? Where can dark tourism and toilets overlap? Well, one thing you may

19 March 2026 2 Comments

30th Anniversary of German Reunification

On this day, thirty years ago, on 3 October 1990, Germany was officially reunified and the GDR (the old communist East German state) ceased to exist, just eleven months after the so-called Fall of the Berlin Wall (or, more precisely, the opening of the border crossing points, which is generally seen as the beginning of the end for the GDR). The physical Wall too was soon after mostly demolished. So it has now actually been gone longer than it had been in existence! How time flies.

30 years is of course a big anniversary and the German media are predictably full of

3 October 2020 No Comments