DEBBIE FORTES

I know, i know! I have been MIA for months. So sorry about that! But this is moi making a comeback! Yeah RETURN OF THE MACK!! With some amazing news.

Let’s start off with my first Euro trip last August 26 to September 2nd. First stop – Berlin. Then Amsterdaaaaaam!!

I was one of the finalists in 2016 EyeEm Awards under the Architecture category. Below was my entry 🙂 I didn’t win, but who cares! I got to see BERLIIIIIN!!! ❤ Walked the streets, rode the metro and learned from their history!

I stayed at Ibis Neukölln on Jahnstrasse. It just a stone’s throw away to Grenzallee, a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U7. It was my home for 3 nights, from August 26th to 29th. It’s just weird that I only get to know that my room was next to a cemetery when I woke up the next day and looked out my windown. It was all good. I didn’t experience any supernatural thingy other than super tired by the end of the day from walking around too much. The hotel is really just for getting some rest so, don’t expect it to be super luxurious like the Ibis hotels in Dubai. I came to Berlin during summertime so just imagine, no AC in the room and even when the sun sets, the heat was still in the room. But like I said, I still love Berlin, regardless! And if there is one city that I will go back again and again, I think it will be Berlin.

Instant replay: I applied my Schengen visa at VFS Global located in Wafi Mall in Dubai. After I secured all the necessary requirements, I immediately scheduled an appointment. After less than a week of waiting for the good news, I finally got my Schengen visa! It was 30 day, multiple entry. Oh yeah!!

For more details about how to get a Schengen visa in Germany, click this link.

Here are some of the photos of my room in Berlin..

Spiral staircase

the neighbor hehe

look outside, its a cemetery 🙂

Here are the photos from 2016 EyeEm Awards held in Heimathafen Neukölln. The nearest metro station is Karl Marx (my fav, cuz its KARL MARX!)

The venue

Try this!

EyeEm stage

So cool meet the people I follow on Instagram!

EyeEm poster at Karl Marx

Karl Marx Straße

Yaay!!

Some random photos of Berlin..

Grenzallee Station

The Refugee team during the Olympics 2016

Potsdamer Platz

A remaining portion of the Berlin Wall, painted by French artist Thiery Noir, located near Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany.

Bradenburg Tor

Gelato with the Reichstag Building in the background

Luders Building #ThatCircleAgain

Train going to Gesundbrunnen station

This street is just next to my favorite Turkish cafe called Elit Simit.

I had tour with Berliner Unterwelten and this is one of the locations we went. It was a old winery where the people used to dig to cross from East Berlin to West Berlin.

This small mountain was made from all the rubbles and things that were left from WWII

Holocaust Memorial

Next stop is AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands. 

(photos shot all by me. shot on iPhone6, post processed on VSCO)