Stronghold Königstein - Rule the world

Schönen guten Tag!

Right before leaving the coffee shop we chatted with the owner of the shop a little bit longer and she told us, that we should take the "Malerweg" to the fort. Malerwege are hiking tracks which are qualified to be the most beautiful hiking tracks in europe. 

Königstein - Feel like little kings!

Schönen guten Tag!

It has been already too long for me to stay home (6weeks). So I asked John to plan a little trip for me and so he did.

We have been visiting the Sächsische Schweiz! It was about 3h by train and we stopped in Königstein.

After arrival we had a wonderful view on the Elbe and of course the first thing we did was exploring the "city". Maybe it was jsut a village. The flood a few years ago damaged the village really bad and you still see which houses have been restored and which houses havnt. 

Reykjavik - The city that never sleeps, well during the summer!

Góðan daginn,

our last four days we stayed at Reykjavik to explore the most populated region on iceland. Besides the main attractions we visited a lot of small, cute, quiet places and just beautiful sights.

At our first day we stayed for some time at Björks favorite cafe to have some coffee. Actually the coffee was one of the best in Iceland, so I can understand why she likes this so much.

 

Street Art in Reykjavik - More present than ever expected

Góðan daginn,

now after 4 days in Reykjavik I have to admit, that street art is a serious topic in this city. 

When I came here I thought, that REK is a kinda old fashioned city, so I expected not as much of a young, modern, street art loving place as it is.

The icelandic people integrated the street art in the picture of their capital as good as possible. Every few steps you can stop and stare. 

I guess I could come back to this city to explore more of it's art, music and culture and won't get bored! We had to check firstly the old fashioned culture and sight seeing stuff kkkk

Mount Esja - Reykjavik

Góðan daginn,

at day 2 in Reykjavik Christoph and me went hiking. We wanted to hike Mount Esja, and so we did.

It is approximately 920 m high and it took us 3.5 h for the whole trip. We had to drive about 20 min on road #1 northwards from Reykjavik to the parking park.

From there we started out trip. In the beginning everything was green and kinda warm, about 13°C.

 So we were happy that we chose this day for the hike. 

Icelandic National Museum - THOR!

Góðan daginn,

after finally arriving back in Reykjavik we decided to visit the icelandic national museum.

Actually we were expecting big stuff! We all know about Vikings and their history. Of course they landed here and had all their nordic gods. 

 Well we found Thor, the god of thunder! Yes directly in the beginning of the exhibition we found him! It was amazingly tiny !

Last bow blew us away - Sun and cloud kissing

Góðan daginn,

on our way back to Reykjavik we decided to drive one last bow, one last Fjord to take. Iceland's mother nature didn't let us down. 

 When we came to the top of the Fjord the sun gave us a slice sight of sun and cloud kissing. And that was the result: