Amsterdam Part II - Daylight!

Dag!

Fist I have to apologize to all Dutchmen and Dutchwomen :-) The Amsterdam Centraal is much bigger, and even nicer than described yesterday! Upsi!

 I guess we arrived yesterday at a little separate track. 

 If you don't exit to the center you can have a nice view at the Film museum and some towers, where you can take the elevator to the top to have a nice view all over Amsterdam.

 Yes, no cars here... just bicycles.

 And you can have a swing.

 After walking down the promenade, we entered again the center... the mystery land....

We passed by the red light district, the antique store quarter, the area for modern art, shopping and food streets and of course a lot of canals. 

This was the best I ate in the Netherlands, ever! Ginger bread filled with marzipan, topped with some almonds! It was worth a sin!

Amsterdam - First Impression

Dag!

During the windy, cold and rainy days in Berlin, Johnny and me decided to take to airplane to Amsterdam!

It has been a long time to be in the Netherlands for both of us, but we still enjoy being here. 

Flying KLM we felt super royal during the flight, with a very yummy scrambled egg wrap in our hands we landed in Schiphol and took the free shuttle bus to our hotel. 

Ostia Beach - Second spontaneous adventure!

Ciao, 

after a week of walking and sightseeing we decided during breakfast to go to the beach for suntanning, swimming and maybe some drinks in Club Tropicana...just because they are for free.

Forum Romanum - Time Travellers

Ciao, 

the Forum Romanum is the oldest forum in rome. It was the hot spot for politics, religion, culture and of course trade. We just had some fun in there...

Nowadays it is one of the main tourist spots in rome. You can explore the old ruins of the forum and check the canal system, the housing and of course the architecture. We used the same ticket which we had from the Colosseo, which was valid for 2 days including the Forum Romanum Tour. 

Vatican City - Spiritual Overload

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when you are in Rome, you have to visit the Vatican City. It is an autark state in the middle of Rome. With it's own post office, police, guards, security service and a lot of more security. 

Colosseo - Gladiators like us!

Ciao,

yesterday we arrived in rome and of course we first checked the Colosseo! When we arrived, the line for entering was so short, that we just went inside. 15 min waiting is nothing! I was sp excited, because I have never been inside. Last time when I have been to Rome, 12 years ago we just checked it from the outside. 

Saluti da Pisa - Hadouken fighting and a lean tower

Ciao, 

last night we decided a little drunk to go to Pisa in the early morning...

so we had to get up at 6 am for breakfast. Felt like normal routine to me, but the after a night out we were a little tired. Anyhow, we managed to get to the train station to take the train at 8:28 am. The ride from Firenze to Pisa was just about 50 min and we had to pay 8,4€ one way. Super cool!

Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore - On top of Florence

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today we got the 15 € ticket for the Cathedral and everything which is connected to it. The Battistero, the catacombs, the museum, the bell tower and the dome. 

We did most of it, but the dome was too crowded today, so we will try to get there tomorrow. We will see.

Firenze - Florence - Florenz - TipTop Tuscan Culture

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yesterday we took the train from Milano to Firenze. 

Milano - Navigli

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tonight we decided to move more downtown to see the canals of Milano. The naviglis are small canals in and around Milano. There are a lot of restaurants and bars around the area ands especially next to the canal.  

Duomo di Milano

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today we visited the Duomo di Milano. Like everytime when you don't expect anything at all you will get a blast you never forget. 

From the outside the Duomo is already one of the most beautiful buildings I have ever seen, but the inside was very detailed and surprising too. 

The coolest thing about the architecture was the terrace on top I guess. Even if it has been super hot, because the whitey stone was reflecting the sun so bad.  

Start Up - Milano

Ciao,

this summer Dawoon and me decided to meet in Italy for some summer vacation fun. After some rearrangements in the travel composition Dawoon, Chaewon, Elisa, Natze and me completed the "Travel-Star-Force-Five".

We will be in Milano for just two days and then pin-ball through all of Italy. But first we had to get there... Ryanair premium class! Wow!

Rockefeller Center by Night

Hey guys,

just to make the trip complete I should post the final tourist attraction we saw in NYC.

We booked us tickets to go to the top of the Rockefeller Center for Saturday evening (at sundown).

THE MET - Metropolitan

Hey guys, 

after finishing the AMNH we rushed through the Central Park to the Metropolitan. I know every museum lover would call us crazy to do both of these amazing museums at one day, but our time is super limited and so we had to rush through it. 

Even under a little bit of time pressure the museum was worth a visit. There are antique artefacts and art from all over the world and from different times. 

American Museum of Natural History

Hey, how r u?

Today was Museum-Day! We just walked for hours and hours to get an overview of the American Museum of Natural History and afterwards of the Metropolitan. I have to admit, that the AMNH is of course much more entertaining, because there are all kinds of animals, and sculptures around, but the Metropolitan is much more impressive, regarding the art, which is in there.

Central Park - Oasis of silence!

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yesterday we went to the Central Park in order to have a bicycle tour in it. The weather was again perfect to do this, thanks New York!

Empire State Building!

Hey folks, 

yesterday evening we finished the day before yesterday with going up the Empire State Building. 

It reminded of course myself of the N-Seoul Tower and the helicopter flight, we did a couple of hours before, but it was absolutely amazing to stand on top of New York. We got the tickets for the 86th and 102nd floor, and what can I say... I guess the 86th floor would have been enough, but you don't know before. 

NYC - The High Line

Hey buddy's, hows it goin'?

Yesterday evening we went to the High Line in New York City. It is an old Subway High Line. I guess you can compare the construction to the U1 in Kreuzberg. As it is not used anymore the New Yorkers transformed the not used track to a very special city garden. The walk was about an hour and the sun was just kissing us the whole time. 

Manhattan - HelicopterLove is in the air!

Hey, how are ya?

After checking the Brooklyn Bridge we decided to take the helicopter to get a better overview of Manhattan.  

NYC Day 2.1 - Brooklyn Bridge - Ground Zero - Staten Island Ferry - Grand Central Station

Good Morning NY!

It is our second day in the city and I am already late with the pictures... there is just so much to see!

NYC - First impression

Hello everyone!

It is american week! We took a flight straight from Ddorf airport to JFK! Suddenly me, John and my parents are in the middle of NYC and for all of us it is the first time to be in the States.

Cilaos CANYONING - way too high!

Bonjour,

we discovered Cilaos a second time to go for Canyoning again. Axel told us, that what we did was Baby Canyoning the other day, so we had to do Canyoning the grown up way.

I guess I am not a grown up in the case of canyoning.


NOT adult enough to do this without fear :-(

Mafat - One of the three Cirques here in La Réunoin 2 days hiking straight!

Bonjour,

the last two days have been packed with hiking. 2 days without Wifi, service, TV or anything else. We drove to Col de Bouf to park our car in the mountains.

We started hiking at 10 am and arrived at our Gite "Snack Bar Marla" at 6 pm, right before sundown.

The weather gods blessed us with the perfect weather for the long 8 h hike! It was hot and sunny! We even saw blue skies, which is not that usual in the mountain!

Piton de la Fournaise - Rainy trip to the moon and back!

Bonjour,

we visited the Piton de la Fournaise today. It is a quiet active vulcano, which is actually not active this year :-(

Canyoning - Jungle Explorer!

Bonjour!

Canyoning won the race for the first place of Reunion Adventures until now!

Mountainbiking was a blast, but Canyoning was incredible. I had to overcome my fear of heights several times. Jumping from bassin to bassin, roping 20 m downwards, zip lining into waterfalls with 25 m under me....

Janina, I hope you are proud of me!

Mountain-biking - 40 km offroad, downhill

Bonjour,

today Claudio and me did something I would have never expected to do. We did mountain-biking!

We had to get up in the very early morning to get on top of the mountain next to St. Gilles.
Arriving on top it was raining, foggy and actually kinda cold. I was sure, that we will get a cold during the ride.

Cilaos - The city in the Caldera

Bonjour, 

CILAOS TIME!!!!!! Hiking in the skies.

But before, we had breakfast in a very cute patisserie in St. Gilles, called Loulou. Of course coffee and baguette...

Claudio and I drove to the center of the island today. Our route took us east next to the coast, where we had to stop several times to take pictures of course.

Here we start to drive north to the center of the island.

 In the middle of the island, in a very high caldera we found the city of Cilaos. We had to drive about 1 h up in the mountains, which was kinda strange. Sometimes there was just space for one car on the street and you had to honk before going around the next serpentine. I had the feeling of playing a computer game, because it was just left-right-left-right-left-right-honk-honk

At some point I got a little annoyed by that, but we made it to Cilaos safe. Up there we planned to do two hikes and we fulfilled our plan completely. So in the following you will see the pictures.

First some impressions of the city:

Banana Cake, which we had as a reward for our hiking :-)

The first hike was about 3 hours, with a yoga and MMA break. The trail was termed Bras Rouge.

 Here we asked two older men to take a picture of us, of course including the breathtaking panorama, but they just took a picture of us and said... BEAUTIFUL! We accepted the compliment and didn't ask for another shot haha

 For Elisa, there is another lesson of undangerous yoga :-)

 I was trying to throw another rock on top.

That was the first round of touring.

The second trip was just around 1 h and took us a little higher to get a nice view of the city, which is surrounded by the walls of the crater.