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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 sanatorium in Tskaltubo Georgia

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Tskaltubo As a photographer, I have an urban photography project, I visit abandoned places and shoot with a model. I do it in Budapest , where I live, and if possible, while I am travelling, for example, in Kyrgyzstan, where I lived for two months . I want to say that it's illegal and hazardous to enter abandoned buildings/places, so please don't take this post as an invitation to do the same. During my trip to Georgia, you can read about it here and here , on the last day I visited the city of Tskaltubo. It is close to Kutaisi and reachable in 20 minutes by taxi and marshrutka. Because it was a last-minute decision, I visited the place alone, so no portraits. Tskaltubo is a spa resort in west Georgia, it is known for its radon carbonate mineral springs, whose natural temperature of 33-35 °C (91-95 °F) enables the water to be used without preliminary heating. The first bathhouses were built as early as the 1870s. Tskaltubo was especially popular in the Soviet era, attracting a...

Kyrgyzstan Diaries Abandoned

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 Бишкек, Ак-Туз First 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. Recently I got fascinated by abandoned places, precisely when I started to do portrait photography, I thought: "why don't do portraits in abandoned buildings?". While I was living in Kyrgyzstan I knew about abandoned villages from the soviet period, so I wanted to visit at least one of them. Thanks to some friends I was able to visit Ak-Tuz, a village not far from Bishkek. Part of it is abandoned, with ruins of buildings from the Soviet period and an abandoned factory. I had in my mind an outfit for this shooting and I asked my friend to dress up as close as she could to it, so the shooting was a bit prepared even if it was the first time I visited the place. After the fall of the soviet union factories and mines in all the country closed so the population moved elsewhere leaving the cities ab...

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