It’s hard not to get interested in politics and history when you’re in Berlin, especially with a history as recent as theirs. Prior to coming to this city, I’ve already heard about the Berlin Wall and how it divided East and West Berlin during the Cold War but that’s pretty much everything I knew about it. Little […]
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Nikolaiviertel or Nikolai Quarter is often referred to as the oldest residential area of Berlin. Technically, it really was. Merchants and artisans settled here in the Middle Ages because it’s located at the crossing of land and water trading routes on both sides of the river Spree. Unfortunately though, most of its medieval lanes and […]
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University of Santo Tomas, the Philippine’s oldest university, is beautiful. I may be a proud Atenean but there’s no denying this fact. It’s got a different charm, the kind of charm only a historical institution like UST can ever possess. It’s actually already my third time to visit this campus. Although the first one doesn’t […]
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