Europe

On the last week of February, we went to Budapest and ate some burgers for our delightful #52weeksofburger. challenge. When we started to look for burgers there, we decided it would be nice to go to a less touristic venue, so as my research showed and as the staff from Maverick City Lodge confirmed, Pesti Burger was the perfect spot for our weekly munchies.

Pesti Burger: Smoked Burgers in Budapest

Budapest (category), Restaurants (category)
4 min read
28/02/201915/05/2019

If you’re looking for an old school backpacker vibe, Hostel Ani & Haakie is the perfect place for you. There, the idea is to have a sense of community, a feeling that you might be traveling by yourself, but you’re not alone while you explore Rotterdam.

Rotterdam’s Hostel Ani & Haakien: Near Central Station & Top Attractions

Rotterdam (category)
5 min read
22/02/201917/11/2024

Panorama Mesdag is the oldest 19th-century panorama painting in the world that it’s on its original site. The art is cylindrical, and it’s more than 14 meters high and 120 meters in circumference. It’s so big that it’s hard to describe the experience of visiting the monument in words. This is a place you have to attend to see by yourself.

Panorama Mesdag: a trip back in time to a fishing village in the 19th century

Netherlands (category), The Hague (category)
5 min read
18/02/201929/01/2025

Hidden among green streets in the heart of The Hague, this is where you will find the fantastic Carlton Ambassador. Surrounded by gorgeous historical buildings and shopping streets that offer antiques, boutiques and a huge variety of bars and restaurants, this is where you find the best place to spend your days in The Hague, Carlton Ambassador.

Our Stay at the Carlton Ambassador in The Hague

Netherlands (category), The Hague (category)
6 min read
15/02/201921/12/2023

This week of #52weeksofburger Fotostraße went to Prenzlauer Berg to try the second burger of February; meet Burgers Burgers. We chose Burgers Burgers because we have heard very nice things about it, and it had some very nice reviews, but as you will see, it was nothing special.

Burgers Burgers: locally sourced burgers but no salt

Berlin (category), Restaurants (category)
4 min read
14/02/201902/02/2024

Lager Lager is a craft beer bar almost hidden in a quiet street in the booming neighborhood that some people like to call Kreuzkölln. This is one of the many examples of how the craft beer scene in Berlin is vibrant and has experienced an excellent number of bars opening in town.

Lager Lager: Our Favorite Craft Beer Bar in Kreuzkölln

Berlin (category)
4 min read
12/02/201921/12/2023

Hamburg Rotterdam: Fantastic Dutch Beef Burgers

Restaurants (category), Rotterdam (category)
4 min read
31/01/201921/12/2023

Mixtape Burger stands out by the use of bagels instead of your usual burger bun, so there we went in a lovely sunny Sunday to see what is it all about.

Mixtape Burger: come for the bagels, stay for the meat

Berlin (category), Restaurants (category)
4 min read
24/01/201921/12/2023

Zsa Zsa Burger: Great Burgers and Drinks in Schöneberg

Berlin (category), Restaurants (category)
4 min read
17/01/201927/02/2024

At the end of 2018, while everyone was deciding their healthy new years' resolutions, we went the other direction and decided to challenge ourselves to eat a burger every week of 2019, the beginning of this journey was at Shiso Burger.

Shiso Burger: Asian inspired burgers in Berlin

Berlin (category), Restaurants (category)
5 min read
10/01/201911/01/2022

The House where the Wannsee Conference happened during the Second World War belonged to Reinhard Heydrich, who got the house as an entertainment center for those who belonged to the SS and their families. And Reinhard Heydrich was an essential man inside the Nazi Party. Above him, only Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler. He used the house as a meeting place for 15 other officials that got together to decide something that was described in a bureaucratic way. But, without any euphemistic terminology, those people had lunch while they talked about how the Holocaust would happen.

A Visit to the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin

Berlin (category)
6 min read
04/01/201920/01/2025

Belgium is world famous for their amazing waffles, but if you ever go to Liege, it is mandatory to eat the ones that take the name of the city. When researching what to do there it was impossible to ignore the many mentions about the Liege Waffles, that is not as popular and easy to find as we hoped for.

Eating Liege Waffles at Pollux

Liege (category)
3 min read
24/12/201821/12/2023

Szechenyi Medicinal Baths are the biggest and most popular bathhouse in Budapest and the only one I managed to find the time to visit during the short time I was in Budapest at the end of August 2018. Located in the eastern side of Budapest, close to the Heroes’ Square and the Budapest Zoo, Szechenyi Medicinal Bath in the ultimate bathing experience in the Hungarian capital and is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. If you need to choose a bath to go to Budapest, this is the one you should go to.

A Visit to the Szechenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest

Budapest (category)
6 min read
20/12/201821/12/2023

Close to the center of Lviv, there is a makeshift museum of sorts. This unlikely tourist spot can be found on a typical urban courtyard, but this is far from ordinary. The Yard of Lost Toys in Lviv is an unbelievable exhibition and could be described as the toys the world left behind.

The Yard of Lost Toys in Lviv

Lviv (category), Ukraine (category)
5 min read
18/12/201821/12/2023

Les Espaces d’Abraxas in Noisy-le-Grand was built between 1978 and 1984 as an entry into the new city of Marne-la-Vallée. Ricardo Bofill wanted to create a social housing project that would mix function regarding the human scale and the aesthetics of public spaces.

Postmodernist Architecture in Noisy-le-Grand: Science Fiction in the Suburbs of Paris

Paris (category)
7 min read
22/11/201819/01/2025

Located in the western outskirts of Berlin, the Berlin-Grunewald station was used to deport Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in the east. Today, where all of this happened, there is the Platform 17 Memorial inaugurated in January 1998 to commemorate the deportation done by Deutsche Reichsbahn during the years of Nazi Germany.

Platform 17 Memorial Berlin: A Site of Holocaust Remembrance

Berlin (category)
5 min read
30/10/201812/03/2024

I moved to Neukölln back in early 2012 and, since then, I have been taking pictures of the neighborhood. Some people would say that I take too many photos of the area! After a bar conversation about the hidden beauty of where I live, I decided it was time to share my favorite places. These the best photo spots in Neukölln according to Fotostrasse.

The Best Photo Spots in Neukolln: Where to take pictures in the coolest Berlin neighborhood

Berlin (category), Photography (category)
11 min read
24/10/201813/04/2024

Workers of all lands unite, this is what you can read when you approach the tomb of Karl Marx at the Highgate Cemetery in North London. These are the final words of the Communist Manifesto, and this is the last resting place of Karl Marx, so they match really well.

The Tomb of Karl Marx: A Place of Pilgrimage for Leftists in London

London (category)
5 min read
14/10/201812/11/2024

One of the most important sights in Kaliningrad is Immanuel Kant's Tomb, the most important citizen of Königsberg. The philosopher never left his hometown and everywhere you walk around in the city, you’ll see tourist souvenirs mentioning his importance to the area.

In the Footsteps of a Philosopher: Visiting Immanuel Kant’s Tomb in Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad (category)
5 min read
28/09/201815/01/2025

The public transport system in Berlin is quite complete and includes ferries, buses, trams, and trains split into the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn. But, for a brief moment in time, there was also the Berlin M-Bahn, and we will always regret not being able to take a ride in one since it was made out of service back in 1991, a little after the reunification of Germany.

Berlin M-Bahn: The Brief History of the First Maglev train in Germany

Berlin (category)
3 min read
25/09/201814/11/2024

Hidden along the streets of Alt-Hohenschönhausen there is a memorial that seems to be long forgotten by people. This Soviet War Memorial is a grim reminder of the pain and struggles that the Red Army went through when it liberated Berlin from Nazism.

The Soviet War Memorial in Alt-Hohenschönhausen

Berlin (category)
4 min read
21/09/201827/05/2026