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Each week the team at VillaWarehouse.com choose a selection of travel news that has caught there eye.

Approaching the 20 year anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, expect the travel news to focus on Berlin, the changes and  East Germany

The Times – Berlin

The coolest sight in Berlin is also the most chilling. It looks as if it has been left there by mistake but, this being Germany, it is there entirely on purpose. It is a listed building on Erna-Berger-Strasse that doesn’t appear on many maps, although is not too hard to find.

First go to Potsdamer Platz — in the Wall years a flattened expanse of no man’s land and now a shrine to swanky capitalism (Ritz-Carlton on one side, Mercedes-Benz sales headquarters on the other).

The Telegraph – Ski-ing in Spain

Excellent images, go and take a look at the Telegraph

Bullish outlook: the family-friendly resort of Formigal is attracting more British skiers to Spain Photo: JAMES BEDDING

Three vultures wheeled high over the plain stretching away from the runway as we walked down the steps of our charter plane into the balmy evening air. As the transfer bus crunched over the gravel of the unfinished drive leading away from the airport, and along a country lane past cypresses, fincas with whitewashed walls and chapels with terracotta roofs, I wondered whether Spain was a wise choice for a ski trip.

The Independent – Guide to visiting Lapland

A must for those with young families!

Christmas is coming and I want to see Santa

To meet the genial man in red, complete with the full works of reindeer, jingling sleigh, enticing parcels and much snow, head to northern Scandinavia. St Nicholas, the protector of children, morphed into roly-poly Santa Claus in the 19th century. He actually hailed from Myra in south-western Turkey. Yet over the last two decades or so, Lapland has become regarded as the traditional homeland of Santa. That is partly because of the magical look of the snow-white winter world there. Yet it is now also because of the quantity and quality of Christmas-related trips to the region. Accessibility from the UK is a key element, too, with packages offered from a host of departure points around the country Glasgow, Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham and Cardiff among them.

Thats the weekends eye catching travel news

VillaWarehouse.com admin team

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