The tour was great. Very interesting. Very informative about Berlin during the 20’s and 30’s and saw so many things. Dan, the tour guide, really knew so much and made a great presentation

Our wonderful guide Dan masterfully presented the history of Berlin's division during the Cold War in an interesting but also humorous way which completely captured the attention of our 13 year old budding history buff. It was an amazing tour and we covered a lot in the span of time allotted. Definitely would recommend to anyone interested in history, art and architecture of the city.

Very knowledgeable and fun guide, learnt so much about the culture of Berlin through the lens of queer history. Go on this tour, you won't regret it!

A witty and personal tour of LGBTQ Berlin, interweaving the lives and frequented locales of figures like Christopher Isherwood, Marlene Dietrich, Magnus Hirschfeld, Jean Ross, David Bowie, Romy Haag and many others. In this personal tour, Amidst architectural gems, Dan shares his own anecdotes as a Berliner of over 20 years, infusing the tour with the sights, sounds, and cinematic references of the 1930’s-90’s. Highly recommended! I loved this tour and so enjoyed meeting everyone who joined as well.

i learned so much of Berlin that i didn‘t know before! Dan is a charming tourguide because he has a lot of knowledge of the history of gay berlin and also adds personal touches by telling personal stories. he gives interesting details without sounding like a teacher (the storys about bowie and marlene dietrich were my favorite part!) i also enjoyed that he added a soundtrack to the highlights of the tour by playing songs on his phone while taking us to the various places. the 3 hours flew by way too fast. i would highly recommend this tour.

I learned an incredible amount about Berlin's queer history: lots of surprising details and anecdotes. Our guide Dan was entertaining and humorous. His stories are accompanied by pictures and music. Highly recommended!

My sister and I had so much fun taking Dan’s musical tour yesterday. We got to see many parts of the city in a short period of time. Dan came to Berlin before the wall came down and his personal experience is just as interesting as the many fascinating stories he told us about the LGBTQ history of Berlin—his tour goes back centuries and includes several of the most famous people in the history of Germany! This is a thought provoking and entertaining way to learn about the cultural and political landscapes of Weimar and Imperial Germany, as well as Berlin during the Cold War and the holocaust. By far in the top three tours I have ever taken. Ask Dan for the soundtrack of the tour 🌈 🤩

This tour with forrest was a very good experience in Berlin! Forrest is a: -walking encyclopedia -great story teller -very social And he points out things you want to know and see that we wouldnt have noticed without him!

This was an outstanding tour of Jewish history in Berlin. Our guide, Ronan, was extremely knowledgeable and informative. He shared fascinating stories going back in history to the Jewish people’s arrival in Berlin until the present day. And of course we saw many places we wouldn’t have recognized as vital to Jewish history in Berlin. Lots of opportunity to ask questions. I strongly recommend this tour.

Ronen was our tour guide and each sentence he spoke was a like a brilliant essay on Berlin, crafted beautiful with a message that hit me as true, surprising and powerful (even more powerful because it was surprising). We started with understand why Bowie chose Berlin, a city divided, a city of two characters. Ronen used the couple of year David Bowie spent in Berlin as a micocosm for the whole Berlin ecosystem - it really was a journey through the city. It’s simply the best city tour I have been on

We had a great tour with Forrest. He did a great job adapting the tour to include a section on Jewish Berlin to suit the interests of our visiting friends. He was a great tour guide - easygoing and highly knowledgeable. We felt like we had only scratched the surface of his knowledge of Berlin's history. We're residents of Berlin, and not only did our visitors have a great introduction to Berlin, but we also learned a lot about our own neighborhood.

A fantastic tour! Ronen was bubbling over with interesting facts and entertaining anecdotes, which were fascinating also for providing a picture of the divided city of the time. A throroughly enjoyable experience - not only for Bowie fans!

It’s hard to please a group of “smarty pants” who claim to know the town - but Klaus did it, and he did it well, with passion and patience. People particularly loved the stop at “Markthalle 9”, and the group laughed out loud on Rio-Reiser-Platz, where anecdotes about the singer/songwriter were exchanged. All in all, it was the walking around the places of interest that stood out, i.e. Klaus’ choice of locations for our little stops: everybody “kind of knows” Kreuzberg, and people told me, they would visit occasionally, but no one ever walked the whole ‘hood. So, people were surprised about the connections that Klaus made evident on the tour. Also, the restaurant recommendation was a big hit!

Dan Borden from Insight Cities (out of Seattle, WA) gave us a spectacular time-capsule of a whirlwind tour that culminated in the diverse neighborhood that became home to the starman from Brixton. The tour ended at the apartment that David Bowie made home of as a Berliner in 1977. Dan took us through the life that Bowie chose in this divided city (circa GDR) leaving the safe confines of the Hollywood Hills to live amongst the immigrant rich populations of inner city Berlin. David Bowie often rode his bike in 1977 to Hansa Studios while working on Low and hit-inspired tunes like “Heroes”. As a young father at 30 years of age, he was mesmerized by the city. Dan went into detail highlighting the many colorful visits that Bowie made in Berlin hobnobbing with Tilda Swinton and working with the likes of Iggy Pop (his friend and roommate at the time), Brian Eno and Tony Visconti…, etc. Dan Borden showcased a fascinating and exuberant time when creativity had no bounds set against the backdrop of a very creatively vibrant city. Highly recommended tour even if you were not such a huge Bowie fan! You soon will be.

Very informative and interesting. We enjoyed the illuminating and enlightening tour - packing a lot in the relatively short time we had.