Six hours of walking around the city of Berlin. Sometimes eight. Sometimes more. In the abstract it sounds like an innovative form of corporal punishment, but the survivors are of an entirely different opinion; ask anyone who's done it and you'll be told there couldn't be a better way to discover Berlin. The legendarily knowledgeable Terry Brewer, long-time British naval intelligence man and official Berlin tour guide to the Allied Forces, began showing tourists around the city in 1998, and the British government's loss is your gain. Terry's passion for history has compelled him to learn everything, but everything, about everything, and his war stories and hard-earned insider knowledge are available via no other tour in the city.

Today, Brewers Berlin Tours includes both old chestnuts, like the all-day marathon tour with either Terry or one of his loyal long-tenured sidekicks, and new jaunts around town, like the information- and beer-intensive nightlife tour of terrific hard-to-find pubs and clubs. Terry and his fellow Brewers veterans have invested immense time, energy, and books returned with coffee stains in an energetic unit of junior tour guides to fill the ranks and ensure that every Brewers tour, no matter how woefully short (minimum four hours; may run longer pending loquacity), is as memorable and informative as can possibly be.