View over Kraków on a fresh January day
I have been taking photos ever since my uncle and aunt inspired me to buy my first DSL at the age of 16. I was born in Holland, moved to the eastern part of the Netherlands, immigrated to Sweden. Here I wrote a travel guide book as thick as a brick about my new home country, was a news and radio correspondent and was a teacher in Swedish schools. 15 years after settling in the land of the Vikings, I popped over to the southern side of the Baltic Sea, and found my third home in Kraków, Poland. The third time's the charm. Europe still has much to offer, including cool industrial heritage in the Dutch town of Eindhoven. Strijp-S is where Philips was big once. The former "forbidden city" is now accessible to all, showing off its industrial heritage while playing it cool.
Marcel Burger
Kraków, 4 June 2025
Kraków, 4 June 2025
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My newest stories
The Lego House | Billund, Denmark
5 June 2025 •In the centre of Billund, the Lego House can be found. Designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group, the 12,000 square metre building of 21 supersized Lego bricks opened in September 2017. Scenes from inside the "Home of the Brick" added to my Legoland story.
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska | Małopolska, Poland
4 June 2025 • Taking the world around him from his castle in Lanckorona, Crown Grand Marshall Mikołaj Zebrzydowski saw fit to build a monastery, modelled after the Cavalry in Jerusalem, in the hills near Lanckorona, Southern Poland. But even in the lower lands of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, one can find religious stuff, including the bridge of the arch angels. Photos all taken on 6 January 2025 (Three Kings), previously unpublished.
Strijp-S | Eindhoven, the Netherlands
4 June 2025 • The soul of Philips is still very much alive at Strijp-S. This is the former industrial park in Eindhoven of when the manufacturing giant was at the height of its power, in the former Millennium. About everything you can think of when it comes to consumer electronics and household appliances was made here, in what was also a walled-in "forbidden city".
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
31 May 2025 • In my late teenage years, I did my practice in Amsterdam to gain experience in a sector where I saw my future at the time: tourism. In the end, I moved away from the career path and did not return to Amsterdam for a long time. Basically, since the Netherlands has so many other places to visit. However, during recent years I find myself a little bit more regularly in the big city - for business and to enjoy the city.
Andalusia, Spain
30 May 2025 • Since 2018 I travelled through parts of Andalusia, Spain, a couple of times. This growing story is the overview, with some short highlights and links to in-depth illustrated stories on some of the most stunning places I have seen in this southernmost region of Spain.
Sacromonte, Granada | Andalusia, Spain
17 May 2025 • An absolute must on a visit to Granada is the Sacromonte neighbourhood. Walking a meandering road uphill from Albaicín one enters the area where the Roma settled after the Christians took over the town in the late 1400s. Some white walled houses and cave homes make the area excentric, but especially the latter also tell a sad past of being expelled from where they lived. In this case, the Jewish and Muslim communities in the 1600s.
Lofoten Islands | Norway
16 May 2025 •To complete my recent quartet of stories from Norway, I present the Lofoten. It is a group of stunning islands in the far north of Norway. My visit to the Lofoten was super short, two days only, and included a cool small boat ride to Svolvær from Narvik, on the Norwegian mainland.
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