The Balkans (part 3 of 3) - Coast

 

From Podgorica we drove down to the coast via the bay of Kotor, to Dubrovnik and along the water to find a beautiful place to relax for the last couple of days.

 

 

It was a great trip - the Balkans, highly recommended!

 

KIKI

 

 

25 Aug, 2016
by KIKI
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The Balkans (part 2 of 3) - Sarajevo to Montenegro

 

From Belgrade we took the bus to Sarajevo, where we met Sarah, a Kiwi friend of mine who decided to live here. It's a wonderful city with a tragic history, like most of the former Yugoslavia, with the three main religions Islam, Serbian Orthodox and Roman Catholic existing side by side in a dreamy valley along the Miljacka river.

 

Roses of Sarajevo monuments to the bloody war

 

Cemetaries for some of the more than ten thousand Sarajevo victims of the Bosnian War

 

Though a beautiful view of the city

 

Fantastic vegetarian food at Karuzo restaurant

 

Typical Sarajevo trams

 

 

We hired a car then to make a roadtrip to Montenegro

Tara river gorge

 

 

Podgorica, the captital of Montenegro, is a little weird but fantastic in a way

A memorial for the Russian singer-songwriter Wladimir Semjonowitsch Wyssozki

 

 

Part 3 coming soon ...

 

KIKI

 

 

3 Aug, 2016
by KIKI
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KIKI
The Balkans (part 1 of 3) - Budapest to Belgrade

 

This year's big trip brought me to the Balkans, which I had been longing to visit for a long time. We started in Budapest and travelled to Belgrade via Novi Sad, Serbia, by train and bus. This is the first batch of photos from the voyage ...

 

Metro in Budapest

 

 

Then we took the train to Novi Sad

 

And then the bus to Belgrade 

 

Stay tuned for part 2 coming very soon ... 

 

KIKI

 

 

28 Jan, 2016
by KIKI
Author:
KIKI
Portfolio - Travel & Documentary

 

 

I have put together a new portfolio for travel & documentary applications, check it out ...

 

Tây Ninh, Vietnam

 

Angkor, Cambodia

 

Killing Fields, Cambodia

 

Tokyo, Japan

 

Bagan, Myanmar

 

Kiev, Ukraine

 

Milford Sound, New Zealand

 

Las Vegas, USA

 

Central Kyrgyzstan

 

North Shore, New Zealand

 

Inle Lake, Myanmar

 

Angkor, Cambodia

 

Berlin, Germany

 

Hong Kong

 

Saigon, Vietnam

 

North Island, New Zealand

 

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

Tonga

 

Tasma, Kyrgyzstan

 

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

 

Nevada, USA

 

Jeti Oguz, Kyrgyzstan

 

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

 

Kiev, Ukraine

 

Tonga

 

Mount Cook, New Zealand

 

Tasma, Kyrgyzstan

 

Southern Vietnam

 

Mandalay, Myanmar

 

Lake Dunstan, New Zealand

 

Angkor, Cambodia

 

Hong Kong

 

Kiev, Ukraine

 

Yangon, Myanmar

 

Rural Myanmar

 

Hoi An, Vietnam

 

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

Inle Lake, Myanmar

 

Mandalay, Myanmar

 

Rural Myanmar

 

Inle Lake, Myanmar

 

Istanbul, Turkey

 

Ticino, Switzerland

 

Rural Myanmar

 

North Island, New Zealand

 

Shanghai, China

 

Inle Lake, Myanmar

 

Mandalay region, Myanmar

 

If you are interested in NIKOLAIKIKI for commissioned work let's get in touch http://nikolaikiki.com/?q=content/contact.

 

Thanks!

 

KIKI

 

 

29 Dec, 2015
by KIKI
Author:
KIKI
Best of 2015

 

This year's travel & work brought NIKOLAIKIKI to Warsaw, Kiev, Istanbul, Poznan, Switzerland, Italy, Barcelona, Saar region, Friesland & other places in Germany. These are some of the best snaps ...

 

 

You can book NIKOLAIKIKI here for portrait, wedding and documentary work in 2016.

 

Happy New Year!

 

KIKI

 

 

25 Nov, 2015
by KIKI
Author:
KIKI
Special: Biennale Arte Venice

 

Last Sunday the 56th Biennale Arte di Venezia 2015 ended. Check out some impressions of this year's art event entitled "All the World's Futures" (see a map with all the venues):

 

 

Central Pavilion, here

 

Hungarian Pavilion, here

 

Israeli Pavilion, here

 

 

Polish Pavilion, here

 

Serbia, here

 

Austrian Pavilion, here

 

Netherlands, here

 

 

Belgium, here

 

Russian Pavilion, here

 

Switzerland, here

 

Norway, here

 

Japan, here

 

Czech/Slovak Republic, here

 

Australia, here

 

British Pavilion, here

 

Corea, here

 

Germany, here

 

Greek Pavilion, click here

 

Tsang Kin-Wah: The Infinite Nothing, Hong Kong

 

Arsenale, here

 

Albania, here

 

Argentina, here

 

Istituto Italo-Latino Americano

 

Denmark, here

 

Wu Tien-chang

 

China, here

 

 

Indonesia, here

 

 

 

 

Venice

 

That's it!

 

(more info)

 

KIKI

 

 

16 Oct, 2015
by KIKI
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KIKI
Mosel Wine Harvest

 

At the beginning of October I was participating a wine harvest in the Mosel/Saar region, a very beautiful, lush and picturesque part of Germany in between the rivers Mosel and Saar, close to the Luxemburg and french border. We were invited by vintners Matz and Jonas Hild to help pick their special Elbling grapes, the most famous of a collection of home made wines. We spent a whole day on their vineyards and followed the first steps of their production line. It's a small over 100 years old family run business and they are shipping their bottles around the world. A New York restaurant owner calls the Elbling wine, this special grape of the southern wine Mosel, "Mineral Water from Heaven", and I can only agree with that ;) It's been a very interesting weekend. Check out the photos ...

 

 

The grapes get all hand picked in the vineyards.

 

When the mini tractor stops working due to a bursted oil hose you have to go carry with classic baskets ;)

 

Jonas and Matz Hild with one of the workers

 

You can of course try and convince yourself in the field :)

 

And even try some wine during a break.

 

We filled six of those tubs this day.

 

Perfect grapes

 

It's much easier with the tractor.

 

Jonas Hild in the vineyard

 

The crew

 

The harvest goes onto the scale.

 

We collected 2,5 tones of grapes this day. And the relatives liked it.

 

The grapes will be pre-hackeled and go into the winepress next to it.

 

From there the fresh juice goes straight into the wine cellar to be further processed.

 

A really old tank from inside

 

Work done

 

That's it for now. I of course got a big box of wine shipped to Berlin and I'm eager to try the bottles that we picked.

 

Check out their website or facebook page and make sure to try a bottle of Elbling one day, it's worth it!

 

See you later

 

KIKI

 

 

8 Jun, 2015
by KIKI
Author:
KIKI
Spring 15

 

 

Peace!

 

KIKI

 

 

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