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#Singapore When it comes to bars, there are several really good options here. One of them is Nutmeg&Clove, a small cocktail bar in the historic downtown district. It's ranked in the Top50, but on weekdays, you can try to get in without a reservation. They…
I've made it a principle to post honestly and about everything on my channel, so I can't ignore one district of #Singapore that shatters all stereotypes about the city. And of course... Indian Town! - Trash littered on the roads in the "cleanest city in the…
#Singapore When walking around the Chinese Quarter, it's hard not to come across at least two temples: Shri Mariamman, the oldest Hindu temple in the city (1827) The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, which can be considered a perfect Chinese-Buddhist temple (2007)
#Singapore As an option for things to do in Chinatown besides exploring the neighborhood - I can recommend visiting the Tea Time tea house (https://maps.app.goo.gl/JACfnnLEzvYCTXFL7). The selection of Chinese teas isn't particularly extensive and is quite…
Chinatown in #Singapore is a treasure trove of the city's colonial architecture. The district began to be developed as early as the 19th century, and for a long time, it was the main place of residence for Chinese migrants, their entertainment and trade…
One of the mysteries of #Singapore - why do wild chickens just roam the city streets? Not even in parks, but right along the roads in the very center! As far as I understand, they're just considered wild birds here. Well, whatever, and as long as they don't…
#Singapore A bit about the price tags on basic items I went into a 7-Eleven - teas for $3! That's three times more expensive than in Thailand/Taiwan/Japan. For that money, you could already find imported ones in Canada! Of course, I found a similar product…
I've long had the idea of somehow beautifully organizing the posts in the channel. So over the weekend, I coded map.momodeve.com - an interactive map, where all posts from Telegram will now be automatically duplicated. As a bonus, I also set up automatic…
#Singapore I love cool developments based on historical architecture, and you can find just such a place not far from the city center. Chijmes is a former Catholic monastery, built all the way back in the mid-19th century. From the 1930s to the 1980s, it…
#Singapore While strolling along the waterfront, you might want to take a look at the historic Fullerton Hotel for the sake of curiosity (it's hard to miss it!). Once a post office, then a tax office, and now a five-star hotel with a view of the Singapore…
Okay, some things you just can't wash down with alcohol - but the nighttime downtown of #Singapore in the bay looks amazing! It gets dark early at the equator, so on weekdays after sunset, offices are still bustling with activity. But on weekends, crowds of…
First impressions of #Singapore After dropping my things off at the hotel, I decided to walk to the city center in the evening. And, honestly, this was not what I expected! Right across from the hotel is an eight-lane highway. Noise, dust, heat from…
#Singapore To quickly close the base - where I lived and for how much My average requirements for a place are a private bedroom with a workspace and a bathroom, in an area relatively close to the center, so as not to spend a lot of time on the road. That's…
I'm tired of posting about Europe, so I'll switch to Asia 😝 In October, I finally got to visit a tiny little country that people talk about a lot, despite its size! And of course, it's #Singapore Just four days of visa-free transit, but I think I covered…
#Review #Hamburg - Summing up Apart from a few minor details, I think I've covered everything I wanted to about Hamburg. I only spent three days in the city during the coldest time of the year, but I still enjoyed the trip and I don't regret at all having…
#Hamburg On my last day, I decided to walk around and take some photos of the city's architecture in a more diverse way. After all, there's not just one type of brick here. So to say, in contrast to those who consider Germany architecturally unattractive.
After strolling around the city center for a couple of days, I decided to head further afield, to the Sternschanze district of Hamburg. They call it all sorts of things here... Migrant-infested, dirty, hipster, party hub... In general, people love to…
#Hamburg They say January is one of the most boring months in Germany. But I have no complaints about Hamburg - even in the cold winter month, there are plenty of tourists here, and in the evening, the city is still lit up with the lights from the past…
The Art Gallery in Hamburg may not be among the ten most famous museums, but it still deserves at least a little attention! At the very least, here you can see several paintings in person that you've probably seen many times online, or even in a history…
#Hamburg I've shown you the industrial port area, but what do the residential streets of the city near the river look like? The Altstadt district is almost entirely built on water, and it's not without reason that it's called the "German Amsterdam". To…
Another of the ancient engineering creations in #Hamburg - an underground tunnel under the Elbe River. At the beginning of the 20th century, the cargo port of Hamburg began to expand to the opposite side of the river, and the question arose of how to send…
Of course, since the warehouse district of #Hamburg was declared a cultural heritage site and began to be restored, it has undergone significant transformations both externally and internally. Where goods were once stored, offices are now located. On the…
The Hamburg Speicherstadt, or literally "warehouse city" in German, is the largest warehouse district in the world, built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Despite the fact that half of the buildings were destroyed during the Second World War, the…
Psychiatrist: There's no such thing as a German Masha and the Bear. Meanwhile, somewhere on the streets of #Hamburg:
#Hamburg One of the most unusual attractions of Hamburg, if not all of Germany - Flakturn IV A former Luftwaffe anti-aircraft tower, built from solid concrete and serving simultaneously as an air defense center and a bunker. As you might guess, there were…
#Hamburg Paradoxically, snow falls extremely rarely in the north of Europe. The proximity to the sea makes the climate moderate, and prevents the temperature from dropping much below zero. But I managed to experience a real winter fairy tale in January! All…
#Hamburg The jewel of the city - the Rathaus, or the city hall in our terms. By the standards of the old city, the building is simply enormous. Surprisingly, such beauty was built only at the very end of the 19th century!
#Hamburg - first impressions of the city Definitely, this is still Germany. However, it already evokes something of Denmark or Belgium. The classic white/pastel architecture is complemented by brick houses. The streets are sometimes narrower, and cars are…
#Hamburg But something terrible happened on the way - it started snowing in Germany! Not just snow, but snow with slush! In Europe, people usually aren't prepared for this, so the whole city instantly turned into a freezing, slushy swamp 🤢 And I was lucky…
After Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt, there's still one more city in Germany that I'd like to visit to tick off all the boxes. So I'm hopping on the high-speed train and heading to #Hamburg!
#Review In conclusion about #Berlin, I'll say that after my second trip, my attitude towards the city has changed dramatically for the better. It's a rare case when you give a place a second chance, and it lives up to it. How to "understand" Berlin? Well,…
To somehow calm the crowd, the center of #Berlin is partially cordoned off by the police. In some squares, like Alexanderplatz, it's even forbidden to launch fireworks. There have been many cases where someone launched fireworks directly into a crowd of…
One of my best decisions on my last trip was to celebrate New Year's Eve in #Berlin. In Canada, it's a pretty dull holiday, but in Berlin, it's the opposite - it's an opportunity to turn the city into a battlefield for a day... Well, in a relatively good way…
#Berlin As you can probably guess, Charlie is just the letter C, and there were also two border checkpoints, Alpha and Bravo. To roughly understand where they were located, you can think about how people actually traveled from West Germany to West Berlin…
One of the politically charged places in #Berlin is still Checkpoint Charlie. It might seem like 40 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but people still flock to the former border crossing point. There's a full-fledged museum nearby, but…
#Berlin We did a bar crawl of the pubs in Kreuzberg. Unlike the clubs in Berlin, everything here is quite civilized, and it's not exactly expensive. It's punk with a soul, the interior is right on theme, coupled with rock/metal music playing! One downside…
#Berlin Further along Charlottenburg: As you head north, the areas become less grand, and in some places, you can even see typical residential buildings. It might seem like there's not much to explore anymore... but suddenly, you come across a huge…
The districts of #Berlin - Charlottenburg It's worth visiting here if you're looking for the "rich western Berlin". It used to be a separate city, but in the 1920s it was incorporated into the rapidly growing "Greater Berlin". There's a lot of classic…
The districts of #Berlin - Kreuzberg It's not as scary as they make it out to be. I was expecting some real trashiness, but in reality, there are just a few streets with graffiti and markets with kebab stalls in the square. If you go further away, you'll…
Many criticize #Berlin for the fact that there's not much historical architecture left here. But! This clearly doesn't apply to the center, where the palaces and cathedrals have been surprisingly well preserved. It's even interesting whether they weren't…
#Berlin During my short trip, I didn't find many modern projects that really caught my eye, but at least these three, in my opinion, deserve attention. In the first case, it's interesting how the building fits into a row of houses, having a flat and sloping…
The "New Year's" oriental #Berlin - it's just a delight for the eyes😂 Seriously, no matter how you decorate the panels, they'll still look sad.
#Berlin Friedrichshain is probably the only district of East Berlin that I really liked 😅 But not the avenue with the huge "Stalinist-style buildings", where the cold air blows through you in winter, but the residential quarters behind it. There's…
#Berlin In pure German
#Berlin By the New Year, the Christmas markets are already closing, but my friend and I managed to squeeze in a visit. Everything's the same as always - overpriced mulled wine, hot dogs, gingerbread, and... Samosas with pilaf? 😆
#Berlin One aspect of Berlin that simply cannot be ignored is graffiti. Of course, it's not on every building, but there's definitely more of it here than in any other European city. Many people criticize it, reasonably believing that it spoils the…
Nighttime #Berlin So different, simultaneously alien and familiar.
Drawing an analogy with Bali, #Berlin didn't really "accept" me very well. Deciding to save a hundred bucks, I took a layover in Munich for a couple of hours. Of course, the flight from Toronto was delayed, everything went to hell, and my second flight was…
I've decided to switch back to Europe from Asia. Well, you gotta add some variety somehow! I spent the end of December and the beginning of January in the well-known city of #Berlin. This is my second trip there, and again in winter! Well, such is my…
#Kyoto #Review TLDR - Super good, I recommend it to everyone It's hard not to love Kyoto. It's the city of traditional Japan that you've read about in books or seen in movies. There's everything here - mountains, temples, rivers, parks, deer and monkeys...…