James Anderson-Pole

Travel recommendations

Australia

• Cockatoo Island, NSW
• National Pass, NSW

Czech Republic

• Museum of Communism
• Petřín funicular
• Petřín Lookout Tower

Germany

• Berlin Nordbahnhof: Train station with exhibition on Berlin's ghost stations.
• Berlin TV Tower
• East Side Gallery Berin

Malaysia

• Batu Caves
• Museum Telekom

Netherlands

• 3 October Festival
• Dutch Resistance Museum

New Caledonia

• Amedee Island: Recommend booking with MaryD.

New Zealand

• Mount Kaukau, Wellington

Samoa

• To-Sua Ocean Trench

Singapore

• Battlebox: 1942 Malaya Command Headquarters
• Changi Chapel and Museum: World War Two Prisoner of War camp.
• Former Ford Factory: Here the British surrendered to the Japanese in 1942. There is an exhibition on World War 2.
• Rail Corridor: I recommend the Central Section if you are short on time.
• Reflections at Bukit Chandu: Historical World War 2 site.

Thailand

• Thai Labour Museum

United Kingdom

• Bletchley Park

United States

• Newseum: Was an excellent musuem but sadly closed at the end of 2019.

Travel Plans

Germany

Bavaria

• Berchtesgaden — 2 days
  • Base: ibis Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
  • Dokumentation Obersalzberg
  • Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's Nest)
• Dachau — 1 day trip from Munich
  • KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau
• Erding — 1 day trip from Munich
  • Therme Erding
• Munich — 6 days total (2 days in Munich plus Dachau, Erding, Schwangau, Zugspitze day trips)
  • Base: ibis Styles München Hauptbahnhof
  • Deutsches Museum (Munich)
  • Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism
  • Olympiaturm (Munich) — 181 one eighty restaurant
  • Viktualienmarkt
• Nuremberg — 3 days
  • Base: ibis Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof
  • DB Museum Nuremberg
  • Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds
  • Kaiserburg Nuremberg
  • Memorium Nuremberg Trials
  • Museum for Industrial Culture (Nuremberg)
  • Museum für Kommunikation (Nuremberg)
  • Nazi Party Rally Grounds (Nuremberg)
  • Weißgerbergasse
  • Zeppelin Field / Congress Hall
• Schwangau — 1 day trip from Munich
  • Hohenschwangau Castle
  • Königliche Kristall-Therme Schwangau
  • Neuschwanstein Castle
• Zugspitze / Garmisch-Partenkirchen — 1 day trip from Munich
  • Kristall Spa at the Zugspitze
  • Zugspitze

Berlin

1. World War Two
   • Allied Museum
   • Berlin Story Bunker — Hitler: How could it happen?
   • House of the Wannsee Conference
   • Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
   • Soviet War Memorial
   • Topography of Terror
   • Treptower Park
2. Cold War / GDR
   • asisi Panorama — The Wall
   • Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
   • Berlin Underworlds Association
   • Berlin Wall Bike Trail
   • Checkpoint Charlie
   • DDR Museum
   • Tempelhof Field
   • Karl-Marx-Allee
   • Mauermuseum — Haus am Checkpoint Charlie
   • Museum for Communication
   • Museum in der Kulturbrauerei
   • Palace of Tears
   • Stasi Museum
   • Teufelsberg
3. Queer / LGBT history
   • Eldorado memorial plaque: marks the former queer nightclub and Nazi persecution site
   • Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer: queer cultural promenade along the Landwehr Canal
   • Nollendorfplatz / Motzstraße: historic heart of Berlin’s gay district
   • Schwules Museum
4. Technology / science
   • Computerspielemuseum
   • Futurium
   • Deutsches Technikmuseum: includes the Deutsche Telekom Science Center Spectrum interactive exhibit; also check out the Bahnpark railway museum section
5. General / urban experience
   • Reichstag
   • Vabali Spa
   • Timeride

Contact details

• Email: james@pole.net.nz