Things to do in Amsterdam

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 Amsterdam Every year, to celebrate my birthday, I travel somewhere, in 2019 I went to Morocco , in 2020 to Israel and this year (2022) I decided to visit Amsterdam. It was a long time since I wanted to visit this city and there I have a friend that I wanted to see, so with these three points combined, I decided to visit Amsterdam in winter. I spent five days in Amsterdam and I visited the city plus some places outside like Zaanse Schans, Zandvoort and Haarlem. One important thing is that I forgot my camera so all the pictures were taken with my phone, maybe the quality is not high but I think they are anyway beautiful. Amsterdam is the capital and the most populous city of the Netherlands, with a population close to a million. It is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the north" due to the large number of canals which form a UNESCO world heritage site since 2010. Amsterdam was founded at the Amstel, the city's name derives from the Amstel dam, originating as a sm
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Kyrgyzstan diaries #1

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Bishkek

I would like to share my experience in Kyrgyzstan with these, probably, weekly diaries.

I have the opportunity to live in Bishkek for two months, while I will volunteer with a contemporary art association, if you check my profile description you can understand that I am a chemist, but I like to face my comfort zone and learn, so I accepted this challenge.

For the next two months, I will live with a local family, a Kyrgyz couple with 3 kids. Till now everything is super, they are really welcoming and supportive.

My first week was full of new connections and new things to know about this culture and the city. My volunteering activity at the moment is mainly getting in touch with people, artists or volunteers that want to join the project. In this way, I have the opportunity to visit the main places of the city and at the same time listen to a lot of nice stories.

Under you can find some pictures of places I visited this week, I want to put the focus on the soviet architecture that is everywhere in the city and it is still a must here, as you can see also from the Lenin statue in my picture.


The first picture is from the "drunk flat", renamed in this way by the people, the main idea of the architect was to refer to the waves of a famous lake in the country.



The two pictures above are from the square in front of the Philarmonic hall, the man on the horse is Manas, a really important figure for the Kyrgyz people because he was the one who unified all the tribes in the way to create Kyrgyzstan.


Also here you can see Manas on the horse, but this statue is more recent and less soviet style. the fun fact here is that before Manas here there was a Lenin statue, that now is behind a museum that is behind the statue in the picture.





I participated in a walking tour with topic mosaics of Bishkek, I had the opportunity to see and understand this art, and how in the Soviet period it was used as propaganda. I also learn that in this city there are beauties hidden between big flats or factories.







Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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  1. Sarah27 July 2021 at 21:56

    Great photos. Looks like a fascinating place.

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    1. Flavio28 July 2021 at 09:21

      Thank you! soon there will be the #2 with others beautiful pictures!

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