Join best-selling author Rory MacLean in Berlin with 3(for2) self-guided tours

The three tours take place in Berlin

The Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour takes place in Kurfurstendamm.

The Breitscheidplatz square is part of the Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.

If it's Christmas time, you'll see around you one of Berlin's biggest Weihnachtsmarkts. If it's springtime, you may be surrounded by an Easter fair.

You'll see the relatively new 'concept' shopping mall called Bikini Berlin. You can pop into its designer shops and the self-proclaimed 'ultrahip' 25Hours Hotel for a drink in the so-called Monkey Bar, which overlooks the Zooilogischer Garten.

From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.

You'll visit the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtiskirche or Kaiser Wilhelm Chuch. It was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1943 and rebuilt in the early 1960s. Its stained glass was designed by the French artist Gabriel Loire and it's among the most beautiful -- and soothing -- in the world.

From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.

Bier’s Ku’damm 195 is where former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, tennis star Boris Becker and even Tom Cruise munched on currywurst and you can too!

From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.

The A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour takes place on - you guessed it! - Museum Island.

Start the A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour next to the fountain at Lustgarten.

Walk through Werderscher Market.

From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.

The Altes Museum – which was opened in 1830 – was one of the first purpose-built museums in Europe. It was created to house the royal collection of sculptures, paintings and antiques and was conceived to be pedagogic, exhibiting art both to educate and to aggrandise the nation.

From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.

Its history of the museum is fascinating. Friedrich August Stüler’s neoclassical building was erected in 1847. During the Second World War, it was badly damaged. After the reunification, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation – along with other government bodies – chose not to simply restore the museum to its pre-war state. Instead, they decided to preserve its strange chronology – to quote Chipperfield – by linking together original material, war-and weather-damaged sections as well as modern elements. The result is a museum that can be read like a history book. The fabric of the building tells the story of Berlin.

From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.

You pass by the museum and at the end of A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour you have the opportunity to visit the museum.

You'll pass by and have the opportunity to visit the museum at the end of the A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.

The Into the Heart of Berlin tour starts with a great view of the Reichstag from here. It's far from the oldest building in Berlin but it is one of the two or three structures that best evoke the city's torturous, and sometimes euphoric, history.

You'll pass by the Brandenburg Gate and hear what it was like when Communist East Germany finally collapsed in 1989.

From Into the Heart of Berlin tour.

Pass through the Jewish memorial and allow yourself to take in the 2,711 concrete stelae. Try to reflect on how architect Peter Eisenman positioned the outer slabs. They're low against the ground so that they seem to fan out into the whole city.

From Into the Heart of Berlin tour.