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
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
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
Spent last weekend in Saxon Switzerland. Amzazing landscapes. Check the photos. Highly recommended!
Happy hiking! http://www.saechsische-schweiz.de/en/saxon-switzerland.html
KIKI
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
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Thanks!
KIKI
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
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
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
Check out my snaps from the last couple of months ...
Happy autumn!
KIKI
Peace!
KIKI