May hands you three public holidays, two world-class festivals, and the best weekend for contemporary art in Europe — and most visitors plan for none of it. It isn't Berlin's prettiest month or its wildest, but it packs in more than most capitals manage in a season. Here's what to book.

February doesn't seduce — it demands resilience, and that's exactly when Berlin gets interesting. With no terraces to perform on, the city turns inward: the Berlinale, CTM, world-class museums with thin crowds. What to do when winter forces Berlin indoors.

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.