Travel &#038; Photography

Apr 6

@egyptair @boeing #777-300ER on final approach into @heathrow_airport , on a cold December day in 2019. I really like this photo, because the airplane broke through a small, low hanging #cloud in the moment I took this picture.
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Apr 6

#Vestrahorn #mountain on the #Stokknes #peninsula, #Iceland, July 2020, with the other very common animal along Iceland’s roads, #sheep! Here a grown up sheep with its rounded #horns with a smaller #lamb.
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Apr 6

What’s more typical for #Iceland? Not much. The #Iceland #Ponies (official name #Icelandic #Horse and actually wrongfully called Icelandic Pony) are everywhere. Especially in the summer, the fields along the streets are full of them. And if you are lucky, you can even catch a huge herd of them being ushered from one field to another over the roads, thus stopping all traffic for a short while...
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Picture taken in July 2020.
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Apr 5

#Iceland #Roadtrip Part 2: From #GlacierLagoon to #Egilsstadir. #Iceland #Roadtrip Part 2: From #Hof / #GlacierLagoon to #Egilsstadir
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Part 2 of the roadtrip documents me visiting #Vatnajökull #Glacier and two of its glacial #lakes, #DiamondBeach, seeing Iceland‘s famous #horses, the #IcelandPony, stopping on #Stokknes peninsula and seeing #Vestrahorn Mountain including a #Viking village and finally riding the gravel road to Egilsstadir.
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Music: „The Blue Pearl“ by Jesse Gallagher from the YouTube Music Library ...

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Apr 4

Throwback to 2019, when we still could fly around the world whenever we wanted. Here in the @qatarairways #QSuite from #Doha @hiaqatar to #Singapore @changiairport . The absolute best business class product in the skies...
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Mar 25

I just showered in the @flypanam First Class #Lounge at #Idlewild #Airport before flying to London on a @boeing #747-100. It’s the year 1978, right?
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Ok... you caught me, I’m a liar 🤥. But thanks the #showermat from @airport_tag , I have a little bit of that good „airport feeling“ at home, while #Corona keeps us grounded...
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Dec 19

Nice sunset today on what once was the #DeathStrip between West-#Berlin and East-#Germany before the fall of socialist East German government in November 1989 and before both Germanys got reunificated again in October 1990...
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Oct 23

One last visit to #Berlin #Tegel Airport #TXL before it closes its doors forever on November 8th, 2020. I just went to the visitor terrace with some friends, no flights this time for me. Just wanted to see the few aircraft left, as most flights don’t operate anyway right now due to Covid-19. #DankeTXL
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It was an absolute fantastic little airport and considering that it ran with millions of passengers over its intended capacity for the last two decades, it functioned quite well. Two bad that the state of Berlin has an absolutely inept government which decided to close this convenient airport. I’m sure the ground handling chaos caused by the state-run airport company will continue at the new @berlin_airport #BER when it opens on October 31st. The airport TXL itself was never at fault, because there never were problems until 2016, when managed changed in the Berlin Airport company. But I digress, bye bye TXL...
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Jul 16

@fosshotel #GlacierLagoon, where I stayed after day 1 of my roadtrip around the #Iceland. Nice room, the best dinner of my whole trip, absolutely amazing and perfectly grilled steak, tasty dessert and lovely views from the hotel’s terrace. Breakfast was quite unorganised and the buffet was running out of things all the time, but regarding the great dinner, I will try to forget this...
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If you want to see more from my trip around the island, check out @carst_on_the_road !
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Jul 16

Iceland Roadtrip Part 1: Reykjavik to Glacier Lagoon. #Iceland #Roadtrip Part 1: #Reykjavik to #GlacierLagoon
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This is the start of the actual roadtrip around the island, counter-clockwise I was driving from Reykjavik to Hof/Glacier Lagoon on this first day, stopping at all the big waterfalls inbetween, like the #Seljalandsfoss and the #Skogafoss, the #Reynisfjare black beach, the steep rocky coast of #Dyrholaey and a few other places. My hotel for the night near Hof was the @fosshotel Glacier Lagoon, which I can highly recommend.
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You can find out more about the hotel on my other account @carst_in_the_air !
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Music: „Birth of a Hero“ by Benjamin Tissot from Bensound.com under Free Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND @bensound ...

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Jul 12

Ellidaárdalur Valley & Grotta Lighthouse, Reykjavík, Iceland. Day 1 of my trip around #Iceland was spent in the capital #Reykjavik, which I had visited a few times before and thus wanted to see some area new to me. So I decided to visit #elliðaárdalur also known as #elliðaár Valley. A great park style area within this city, split in half by a wild river in its final stretches before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
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After hiking through the park, I went to #GrottaLighthouse on #Seltjarnes peninsula. If you see birds flying around the lighthouse, then these are probably #ArticTern/s, which are nesting in that area. That’s also why it’s not allowed to go onto Grotta Island in the Summer months and why I kept the drone rather high above the ground. As you can see, the weather played along nicely and thus this day turned into a relaxed start for this trip through Iceland.
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Music: „Epic“ by Benjamin Tissot from Bensound.com under Free Creative Commons License CC-BY @bensound ...

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Jul 12

Oddur Golfclub, Reykjavík, Iceland. As I had mentioned in my previous post on @carst_in_the_air and also on this channel, I had to take the mandatory COVID-19 test on arrival into Iceland and luckily tested negative. So on day 2 in Iceland, my holiday could begin. I had planned to drive around the whole island counter-clockwise and also take a few side-trips from the usual tourist route. But, important things first, playing some Golf in the hills south of Reykjavik.
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This video should give you some impressions from the round of Golf I played with @sv1thor at @oddurgolfclub near #Reykjavik, #Iceland. A very beautiful, but also challenging course, which partly has parkland features, but also many holes which are lined with volcanic stone landscapes on both sides of the fairways, which makes missing the fairways a very risky business.
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Jul 6

Back on the road... here in #Iceland now!
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Arrived today, did the mandatory #CoronaVirus / #Covid19 test at the airport in Keflavik, went to my hotel, and isolated in my room until I got my results about 6 hours after landing. Test results negative, so I’m cleared to travel around Iceland for the next 11 days.
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After the test result came in I had a late night pizza dinner and now, 20 minutes to midnight, enjoyed this wonderful sunset over the bay of Reykjavik. As it’s summer and we are high up in the Nordics, the sun will never completely disappear this time of the year. It will shortly drop below the horizon, but not far enough for it to get dark. And then an hour later, it will slowly come up again, giving us here in Iceland hours of red and orange sunset and sunrise light (if you stay awake that is).
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More to come in the next days, stay tuned...
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Jul 5

After my flight to #Iceland today, I now checked in into the @hiltonhotels @hiltonreykjaviknordica in #Reykjavik. Will stay here for two days, before starting my #roadtrip around the island. First 24 hours are quarantine, then followed by Golf tomorrow evening with local frequent traveller @sv1thor .
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The Hilton here is a very nice property, which always is a pleasure to stay at. To make it even better, thanks to my Diamond Status I got upgraded to a top floor executive bay-view room overlooking Reykjavik and its waterfront.
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Additionally the hotel provides room service free of extra charges, because travellers are encouraged not to visit any restaurants until they got their #Covid19 test results.
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Jul 5

Flight number 1 in the times of #Covid19, flying on @icelandair from @berlin_airport #TXL to @kef_airport #KEF onboard one of their @boeing #757 aircraft in these beautiful special liveries.
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I was in seat 1A, which was nice, the aisle seat was empty, which was even nicer. Not so good was that there was no service in-flight, because of the #coronavirus restrictions, the IFE had nearly no movies or TV series on offer, but at least the snack-bag provided had some tasty contents. I just wish airlines would provide sparkling water instead of still water.
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It was great to be up in the air again, but considering all the hassle at the airports right now, flying is way less enjoyable. You it accept, because you want to go on holiday, but it’s definitely not fun right now.
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After arrival we had to stay onboard for 45 minutes until the corona-test-stations in the airport were less busy. Afterwards we deplaned by rows, starting with row 1, which was good for me. And after another 15 minute wait in the terminal, I got my nose and mouth swab and will get test results within the next 24 hours. But I’m already free now to head to my hotel...
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Jul 5

Back in the Terminal C Lounge at @berlin_airport #TXL, the first time since the outbreak of #Covid19.
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After I had dropped off my bag at the @icelandair check-in desk, I passed the rather empty security checkpoint. Because still only a limited amounts of flights operate, all flights within the European Schengen zone, leave from the older part of Terminal C. And that meant that after visiting the lounge I had to walk through the strange connector between old and new Terminal C to get to my gate. That was when I discovered a random Airbus left in @airberlin colours. Nearly three years after they went out of business.
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The lounge had somewhat limited offers, but I was still surprised to see cake, German pretzels and other snacks provided on the buffet. All snacks were packed in separate, small paper bags, so no one would touch or sneeze on the food other people might take. Also the lounge was pleasantly cool, something a lot of big airlines don’t manage to do. Looking at you BA!
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Jul 5

Only in #Berlin! Note to travellers at @berlin_airport #TXL: don’t come to the #airport too early and don’t come too late! Like 2 hours before your flight seems like a good choice.

They only let people into the terminal when their flights are starting check-in (and check-in times have been shortened). You queue with thousands of people in front of the terminal, then an agent comes through the masses of people and announces which flights have started boarding and ushers the passengers of these flights to the terminal‘s entrance, where their boarding passes get checked. You don’t get in, if your flight hasn’t been called in front of the terminal. And who’s too late has bad luck apparently.

A real shitshow. I bet that procedure is only used in Berlin. 🤷🏼‍♂️

So while I’m happy that the #Covid19 / #CoronaVirus situation is kinda under control in Europe and that we can travel again, I must say that this whole mess kinda takes the fun out of the aviation part.

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Jun 26

#Berlin #TauentzienStraße, extension of the famous #KuDamm, perhaps the best known avenue in former #WestBerlin. Full street name is #Kurfürstendamm, which could be translated as „Avenue of the Prince Elect“.
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Towards the eastern end of this avenue, the name changes twice. In this part it’s called TauentzienStraße, named after a Prussian general from the 19th century. In this #LongExposure we can see #LightTrails of busses and cars passing the sculpture „Berlin“ from 1987, which symbolises the parted Berlin in times of the #ColdWar, when the #BerlinWall was still cutting eastern and western world in two and East Germans still were shot when trying to flee to the West.
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Jun 25

While one German airline was saved today with a 10 billion Euro bailout due to the crisis caused by the Coronavirus, another German airline wasn’t that lucky a few years ago. Here a photo from better times, when @airberlin was still going strong at @berlin_airport #TXL. Shown here is their full hub business at the makeshift Terminal C at #Tegel #Airport, which only was supposed to serve #AB until the new airport in Berlin opens. Sadly the new airport is close to 10 years late in 2020 and #AirBerlin went out of business in 2017.
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Jun 21

I did cut together some of our Golf shots from today’s round on the East Course of @stolpegolf . Very enjoyable round, with the three non-pro players finishing within two shots of each other. .
And @the_lloyd_berlin won our little Matchplay. 😬
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Music: „Phonetic“ by Red Bellows, used under Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND, from freemusicarchive.org (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License) ...

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May 23

Spotting at @heathrow_airport in December 2019 before Corona messed up our travel year 2020...
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Starting here with my favourite @qatarairways and their @airbus #A350, followed by @iranairofficial and their new #A330, and then the #A380 triplets from @emirates , @etihadairways and @singaporeair . Next come the @boeing #787 triplets from @china_southern , @gulfair and @virginatlantic and then finally a @cathaypacific #747 cargo hauler and a #PIA #777. .
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May 23

The #geysir #Strokkur again, but this time in an icecold winter night in January 2017. This is a longtime exposure (15 seconds, at f2.8, ISO1600, camera: Nikon D850, lens: Tamron 15-30 G1) showing the erupting Strokkur in front of a lit-up sky by a weak #Aurora Borealis (a.k.a. the #NorthernLights).
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I was there with my friends @_honourhill_ and @mrs.ehrenberg . We first went to the #Gulfoss waterfalls about 15 minutes away where we photographed quite a strong #AuroraBorealis in super cold winds, before we retreated to the Geysir area where we waited about an hour to get the right shot of this geysir exploding in front of the Northern Lights. (The Stokkur erupts about every 10 minutes.) ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL!
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Hint: Right opposite of the namesake of all geysirs in the world, "the" Geysir and its little brother Strokkur you'll find the quite luxurious Hotel Geysir (and the cheaper Hotel Litli Geysir, which also rents out cabins). So you can stay there a night or more and don't need to drive back to Reykjavik, which is about 90 minutes away.
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May 23