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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...

Abandoned Train yard, Budapest

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 Istvantelek Between a trip and another, I started an urban photography project in Budapest, where I live, and in Hungary, I am visiting abandoned places and have a shooting with a model. Recently I exported this project also outside Hungary, in the summer of 2021 I lived two months in Kyrgyzstan and had this project also there . I want to say that it's illegal and very dangerous to enter abandoned buildings/places, so please don't take this post as an invitation to do the same. One of the first places I visited with this project is the Istvantelek train yard, which once was one of the most important railway vehicle repair shops in Hungary, the Hungarian railway history park is located near the area. I like to discover and visit abandoned places because they are full of history, they are like an open exhibition of a recent past, when I'm there I'm imagining people that interacted with that place, that worked there, how was their life in that period. If it is possible I...

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