I first visited Görlitz, for no particular reason, in October 2023, as described in this post.

This time, the occasion was these two photo tours to what for some strange reason the Germans call “Lost Places”. I am not sure what to expect, there are no details on their website, but they did promise me that the Saturday tour and the Sunday tour are two different tours. I am still skeptical though, not least because they were incredibly rude and unfriendly in their communications. We’ll see.

Having set off from Berlin very early in the morning of 4 April, while walking in the direction of my h otel in the Altstadt, I looked for a nice café first thing upon arrival, and found Café Bikini in Berliner Straße. New, with healthy food choices and great coffee. Highly recommended.

Later in the day, I re-discovered another very nice café, this one on the other side of the river Neiße in Zgorelec.

Photos from day 1:

Day 2: before going back to Café Bikini for brunch – an early walk in Stadtpark where the day before I had heard and seen many birds, and photographed, a.o. my first Hawfinch/Kernbeißer.

Heard many different birds again, and got some photographs of variable quality. Am posting most of them here, at least for the purposes of identification later.

Not sure about this one (same bird in all three photos):

The following are Nuthatch/Kleiber, Red Kite/Rotmarlin, Robin/Rotkehlchen, Song Thrush/Singdrossel, Starling/Star, in that order.

Two small buildings next to each other, a monument for the 15th East Meridian, some miniature daffodils, and the obligatory tree in black and white, in that order.