Most guides call Berlin an 'adult city' — all nightlife, history and grit. They're wrong. It's one of Europe's best places to travel with children, just not in the cotton-wool way you'd expect. A family guide that gets how this city actually works for kids and teenagers.

Berlin has over 180 museums, and that's not a selling point — it's a problem. Most visitors shuffle through the same five on Museumsinsel and call it done. A winter guide to the collections that actually matter, and the surprising corners most people never find.

You wake on your first Sunday in Berlin, step outside, and find the supermarkets shuttered and the shopping streets empty. It's not a holiday — it's just Germany on a Sunday. What that closure actually means, and how to spend the best slow day the city offers.