What the 26 FreeTour reviews recorded in August 2026 taught me about guiding, including the criticism that stayed with me.

What earlier tours with twenty people and two taught me about the way group size changes guiding. Current public-tour details are available at Walk of Berlin.

An account of the tip-based tours I used to run, and the invisible work behind them. Today, Berlin Then and Now at Walk of Berlin has a fixed ticket price.

I spent ten years in digital marketing. I was good at it. I knew how to make a number go up, how to write the line that makes someone click, how to build the thing that turns a stranger into a customer. Then I moved to Berlin, and a few years later I started walking backwards through the middle of it, talking to strangers about a city I did not grow up in. People ask how that happened. This is the honest version. The product nobody needed Marketing is not a dishonest professi

Most of what I describe on my walk isn't there anymore. The real craft of guiding is finding the one photograph that makes a vanished street visible again.

The viewing platform at the Fernsehturm is the one thing I regularly tell people to skip. Here's what I send them to do with those two hours instead.

Nobody books this part. Twenty minutes before every tour, standing by the World Clock with a green umbrella, I'm thinking about the same thing every time: am I going to be good today.

Berlin is flat, grey, and permanently under construction — and visitors are right about that. The mistake is trying to see more of it faster instead of standing still.

The question I'm asked most often is about the one thing my walk doesn't show you: what's actually left of the Berlin Wall. Here's where to go instead, and why my tour starts eight hundred years earlier.