Eastern Europe

p.giannakis said:
I have a friend that due to his busy schedule he is not traveling abroad. On Monday evening's when he is not working, he will put a glass of whiskey and his favourite music and I will send him the coordinates of the place I took a picture of, and he will embark on a virtual walk with Google maps. I used to do the same with remote villages somewhere on this planet (from Greenland to Chile).
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Me also. Those of us Of A Certain Age often go to Google Maps to revisit places we've been to in the past.

On quiet nights at my Asian home in Indonesia, I log into Google Maps and tour villages, rice fields, beaches, mountains and shrines I saw back in the 1990s and 1980s. Not so much 1970s, my memories from that long ago past have dimmed or even faded, and sadly Bali especially has changed so much, it's all but impossible to find most places I saw in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 and 1975 - I was and still am devoted to revisiting old haunts to 1 see what has changed and 2 how my impressions of revisiting and rephotographing have moved on or stayed as they were, the latter being amazingly often the case for me.

In 2023 I again went to Ubud in Bali for my first return visit in 20+ years - I was dismayed by what I saw. As a Canadian gal at a nearby table in my old Ubud haunt since 1985, the iconic Cafe Lotus where I was having lunch said to her friend, "It's so disappointing. Like Kuta with rice fields, but without the beach." I couldn't have agreed more.
 
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Canon 35/2.0 wide open, your Holga experience on a 2000$ Leica, wonderful lens.
 
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