Early on a Friday morning, I took my drone to Tempelhof with the explicit goal of capturing how gorgeous the park looks like covered in snow from above. And the pictures and videos I shot there prove that I was right to leave the comfort of my house and head to the park.
While we were watching the Queen’s Gambit on Netflix, some locations seem to be familiar to us. Some places that were supposed to be foreign, like Moscow and Mexico City, looked like places we recognized from our daily life here in Berlin. With this thought in mind, we decided to look for Queen’s Gambit locations, and the first place we visited was the Schloss Schulzendorf, also known as the Methuen Home orphanage.
Read More »Queen’s Gambit Locations: Schloss Schulzendorf as the Methuen Home orphanage
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 Landwehr Canal is one of our favorite places to spend warm Saturday afternoons, just walking along it. But, it can be a pretty exciting place to explore in winter as well since, from time to time, it freezes completely. A frozen Landwehr Canal is what happened on the last weekend of February 2018, and we went there to take pictures of everything.
Far away from the tourists that flock to Berlin is a neighborhood called Kaulsdorf. There,… Read More »The Abandoned Freibad Wernersee
Most of my friends think I’m crazy when I mention how much I love visiting… Read More »A Lot of Reasons to visit Helsinki in Winter
When I first visited the Czech Republic in early December 2016, I knew I wanted to see more than just Prague. Not that there is a problem with exploring only Prague but I wanted to see a little bit more and this is how I ended up discovering the beauty that is Cesky Krumlov.
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Some say that the best thing about winter time is the snow and everything that you can do with it. But Fotostrasse says, without thinking twice, that the best thing about winter is the Christmas Markets. And Prague has some of the most charming ones I have ever seen. I spent some time in Prague in early December and even though it was too fast, I managed to find some time in my schedule to enjoy a couple of the best Prague Christmas Markets.
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Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia and the largest city and the capital of Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland. Fotostrasse was there for a few days in early 2015 and we fell in love with this city that hosts almost a million people. Because we loved the days we spent there, we decided to write this short guide with a few things you need to do in Wrocław.