Josef K. träumte

I am Elisa and in this space I share my travel pictures and my hitchhike adventures. I'm really fond of sunsets and brutalist architecture.

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Sorrento, Italy (July 2022).

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Grocery shopping in Odessa, Ukraine 2017

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Window view - Odessa 2017

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Blue and Yellow - slava Ukraini (Odessa 2017)

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Blue and yellow- Odessa 2017

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Slava Ukraine!

Odessa 2017

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I took this picture when I visited Kiev in summer 2014. But Putin was not stopped and the war was not avoided.

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Midsummer dreams - Summer solstice 2019, Germany.

A never-ending sunset from the longest day of the year. Pictures taken from the Elbphilarmonie in Harmburg.

I remember that evening there was a problem with the trains and I only managed to reach my place after 22, yet the sky was still pink.

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An abandoned house in Chemnitz, Germany 2019.

A pretty charming sight after seeing the gentrification madness in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden.

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Chemnitz after the Kosmos concerts.

Formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt, this ex-DDR city has actually nothing to do with the communist philosopher (who was actually born in Trier, in the very west of Germany). However the monument to Karl Marx is still standing in the city-centre. Locals like to refer to his huge head as “der Nischel”.

Marx mag’s.

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My host in Dresden recommended that I go hiking in the Sächsische Schweiz, this nice region about 40 train-minutes from Dresden. I wasn’t sure, for I had planned to hitchhike to Chemnitz on the same day and I had arranged with my CS host in to arrive there before dinner... but hey it was so worth going! The Bastei bridge was indeed cramped with visitors (Czech and Germans mostly), but still really worth visiting!

(Also hitchhiking was great: waited about 10 minutes and got a straight ride to Chemnitz from a woman and her child Paula - the first time I got a ride with children btw)

(I also found the energy to explore Chemnitz and its modernist architecture in the evening, my muscles were a bit sore after hiking and hitchhiking, but I’m so full of energy when I travel, whereas I’m always tired and lazy when I’m at home, idk)

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Through couchsurfing I had the opportunity to stay at some very interesting housing project in Übigau, then I visited a friend in the Neustadt. Dresden, Germany 2019

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People sitting by the river Elbe in Dresden, Germany 2019.

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Dresden, Germany 2019

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Last summer I visited a friend in Dresden. I really love this city, it reminds me of Berlin before it got expensive. Dresdner Neustadt, Germany 2019

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Socialist heritage in the Dresdner Altstadt: the Hochhaus Pirnaischer Platz, a monument on the Lingnerplatz and the frieze of the Kulturpalast, titled Der Weg der roten Fahne. If you look closely at picture 1 you can still see the writing DER SOZIALISMUS SIEGT on the top of the building (”socialism wins”). Dresden 2019.