This blog was once a per­sonal test­a­ment to my own life in Ber­lin. It used to con­tain merely anec­dotes and some­what inter­est­ing pic­tures of my sur­round­ings. You could wit­ness how nar­row my view was (and still is), and how slowly, this site developed to become more to me than a blog. It became my entrance to the city, forced me to open my eyes, and made me meet people who even­tu­ally became my best friends and closest fam­ily. To cre­ate Find­ing­Ber­lin, as dra­matic as it sounds, has been one of the best decisions of my life so far.

So where does that take us? There are more than 3 people work­ing on this site on a reg­u­lar basis now — though not reg­u­lar enough. It’s a pas­sion­ate side pro­ject, but we are actu­ally not just bum­ming around like most of those flashy hip­sters liv­ing the life, nope, we actu­ally have jobs and some of us even have a nine to five (I know, who would do that?).

But, and that’s the beauty of it, our whole lives are being inspired by what is hap­pen­ing in Ber­lin and some­times even what we want to “do” is so heav­ily influ­enced, you can hardly tell the dif­fer­ence between “I’m mak­ing money / I’m hav­ing fun”. Enter Mar­tin, our dear friend, who’s been accom­pa­ny­ing us (usu­ally on his bike) and who’s now mak­ing his first steps to make Ber­lin an even bet­ter place.

Mar­tin decided to com­bine all his pas­sion and interest for exclus­ive and beau­ti­ful bikes with the edu­ca­tion he had (sus­tain­able tour­ism) and the inspir­a­tion of his daily exper­i­ences and came up with Find­ing Ber­lin Tours. It’s bike rental ser­vice with a twist (indi­vidual single speed bikes) and altern­at­ive tours through Ber­lin. He’s just star­ted get­ting crazy at the RAW-Temple, where “our” new headquar­ters are set. You can see the art­work on the bike containers.

This is an amaz­ing leap for­ward for our little pro­ject here, and Mar­tin has done noth­ing but out­shine him­self with all the work he has done. The first tour will be announced soon and includes most of our favor­ite hot spots. There’ll be small groups on chique bicycles, in Eng­lish, with the best tour­guide you could ima­gine. We’re proud to be part of it and please, if you’re vis­it­ing and temp­ted to rent out a bike, sup­port local busi­nesses and please come by!