News in brief: the Currywurst Museum opens

Sausage sizzlers Forget the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, this summer’s big event in Berlin is the opening of the Currywurst Museum in August (www.currywurstmuseum.de). If you can’t wait till then to savour the national snack — a chopped sausage, with tomato sauce, sprinkled with curry powder — join the lines of hungry locals at the Konnopkes Imbiss shack by Eberswalder Strasse U-Bahn station.

Going local No one knows a town better than those who live there, so check out www.spottedbylocals.com. This user-friendly site has tips on European cities from Amsterdam to Zurich and plenty of other centres of hipness, too.

Sir Cliff’s song gong Wimbledon’s Centre Court has its roof on and Sir Cliff is out of a job as court jester, but congratulations are still in order. His cheesemongous ’60s hit Summer Holiday has been named as the No 1 British holiday song in a survey carried out by Shearings Holidays.

Beautiful beach game We shall fight on the beaches, we shall never surrender . . . the Beach Soccer WorldWide Euroleague is coming to the 2,000-seater stadium at Butlins in Minehead in July. England play Germany on July 18. For tickets visit www.butlins.com.