10.02.2014
One of the great things about Iceland in winter is the possibility of seeing the Aurora Borealis aka Northern Lights. The lights weren’t my main reason to go there, but of course I hoped to see some. And I was very lucky to do so.
Our guide took us somewhere out in the dark and then we waited. And waited. And waited. To pass the time and get warm, Yana jumped up and down in front of my camera with a flashlight. And then we waited again. And that’s what I really like about the Northern Lights. You can check the forecast and see a tendency whether there is aurora acitivity or not, but you aren’t certain. And all of a sudden nature becomes this really exciting thing, where a bunch of grown-ups stares into the sky and jumps around and screams as soon as the faintest glow of green is visible.
09.02.2014
About 700 kilometers on the road and I would have wanted even more. I definitely want to drive the complete ring road once. Alone. So I can decide whenever I want to stop and take photos. (I guess it would take me about two months at least, as I’d stop every ten minutens or so …)
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06.02.2014
There’s a lot of street art in Reykjavík, and I’m not talking tags and stickers here. There are huge, beautiful, clever paintings around almost every corner. Some of them are advertising for the shops inside, but they look good nevertheless. And it’s a nice sight in a city that can seem very dim and grey here and there.
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04.02.2014
I’ve been to Iceland.
Iceland? Where every hipster in the world goes these days?
Yes. Though in my case it’s not that I am a hipster (my pants are way too baggy for that) traveling all the trendy places, I’m just late. Very late – because I’ve been wanting to go there ever since I saw Nonni und Manni * on German TV in 1988. And now I finally went and it was fantastic.
After the break there’s a first glimpse of what you can expect here in the blog in the following days.
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