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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...

Things to do in Lisbon, Portugal

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Lisbon I went to Lisbon in September 2021, just after my experience in Kyrgyzstan . After two months in Kyrgyzstan, I came back for two days at home in Budapest then left again for Lisbon. There I participated in a photographic project organised by Let Me Italian You ; they organize events where people from different cultures can share their passion for photography while they are discovering a city. The program was made with workshops, guided tours of the city and photoshoots in four days. Usually, I travel alone and I organise by myself the travel experience, but I like the way that Massimiliano and Gabriele from  Let me Italian You  organise these projects and I support all the concepts. Downtown Lisbon On the first day, in the morning we had a workshop about "the light of Lisbon", at the IADE university. It was an interesting lecture about the particularly light that you can find in Lisbon, photographically speaking, and also about framing and perspective. After lunch, we ...

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