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Uit Liefde en Voorzorg
“Uit Liefde en Voorzorg” (Out of Love and Precautionary) is a building I recently discovered in my hometown Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1794, after the death of two sisters, who...
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Bergpark and castle Wilhelmshöhe
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a large park in Kassel, Germany. It was created in 1696, and in 2013 it was placed on the Unesco list of world heritage sites. The main attractions of the park are the castle...
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Der goldener Reiter
Der goldener Reiter (the golden horseman) is the statue of August the Strong, king of Poland and king of Saxony. Under his reign many baroque buildings were built and the art collection of the Saxons...
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Slaughterhouse Five
Exposure time: 4 seconds When I was in Dresden, Germany recently, I went looking for Slaughterhouse Five (Schlachthof Fünf), the place that Kurt Vonnegut wrote about in his book “Slaughterhouse Five”....
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The Bastei
Exposure time: 10 seconds The Bastei is a rock formation in Germany. It’s located between the towns of Rathen and Wehlen. It consists of a number of rock columns, surrounded by forest. In 1851 a stone...
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The oddest cigarette factory in the world…
The city of Dresden is home to what must be the oddest cigarette factory in the world: Yenidze. The building looks like a mosque, but it isn’t. Until the 1950s, it used to be a cigarette factory. When...
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The Jan Palach Memorial
In the Catholic faith, the first and second day of November are about remembering the dead. I thought this post would be appropriate for today. In september I visited Prague in the Czech Republic....
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The cemetery of Vyšehrad
Exposure time: 1 minute and 2 seconds I know it sounds weird but I like to visit cemeteries, and the cemetery of Vyšehrad in Prague (Czech Republic) is one of the most beautiful cemeteries I’ve ever...
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The courtyard of elements
In the Dresdener Neustadt you can find a curious set of courtyards that are part of the Kunsthofpassage. Every courtyard is decorated differently. There’s one decorated with golden waves (which I...
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The pier of Scheveningen
Exposure time: 10 seconds One more blogpost at the end of the year, this time of the Scheveningen Pier. The reason? It was closed in 2013, due to safety hazards. The first pier was built in 1901, near...
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