vacation

First full week of school holidays was spent in the “sächsische Schweiz” in Bad Schandau and surroundings. We had booked a small apartment directly at the river Elbe. Plan was to explore the usual sights hiking as I did as a kid with my parents some 40 years ago 😉

First trip was to the Bastei. We parked at a nearby hill and first had to go down to the city of Kurort Rathen to climb up to the Bastei. One could have driven all the way to the Bastei with the car. But where’s the fun in that?

Next day we hit the castle at Festung Königstein

Then the Lilienstein:

And finally the Pfaffenstein with the Barberine