Located just outside Putbus on the road to Lauterbach, the “Haus Kopfüber” is certainly something that you can’t miss. The house is big, red, and literally upside down.
Hiddensee
June 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Ever since my first visit to Rügen some years ago, the island of Hiddensee, located off Rügen’s western coast, has fascinated me. Road signs show how to get to the ferry, and yet cars are not allowed on the island. I had read about how cracks have been appearing for years on the island, and I also knew that in the days of the GDR the island was a resort that was used by musicians and artists, where they could be away from the main part of the country and the Stasi could still keep a close eye on them. The island’s name even turns up in a song from 1974 called “Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen”.
But with so much else to see on Rügen itself, somehow in my first few visits I never made it to Hiddensee. So when I received an invitation from Kurdirektor Alfred Langemeyer and the Reederei Hiddensee to visit the island before attending a preview of the Störtebeker Festspiele, the chance was too good to miss. [Read more…]
Seeing Rügen from the air
June 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Over the past few years I have seen quite a bit of the island of Rügen, all of it though by car. One of the places that I had not until recently been to was the famous Königsstuhl chalk cliffs, which are only accessible by foot or by sea. Going there requires, at the very least, a decision on where to leave the car.
So when Sven Nikolaus from Rügen-Helikopter offered me the chance to fly over the cliffs at sunset, I jumped at the chance not only to fly in a helicopter for the first time, but to see the island from and get some great photos as well.
The helicopter on the ground
