
Yes, there is another image that will show a similar prospect at an even better place, but this here is remarkable, too: I've taken this standing on a shaky platform. Many kids and their parents around me, the kids 'testing' the platform's (actually a scaffold) stability by jumping around, which made the experience even more intense. The whole area below Drachenfels fortress (the ruin) is under construction; the condition of the restaurant destination was demanding this.
This is a view down into the Rhine valley. The island is Nonnenwerth, a former site of a Benedictine nunnery, later a Franciscan convent, now Gymnasium. The city is Bad Honnef. Just some more meteres and we'll arrive the summit.
My (old) coffee-table book of selected postings.
More MadScientist: eclecticimaging.tumblr.com, the guy behind this blog
@Z: This is Rhine river; this year it's having extremely low water (five times lower than normal). The place we're standing here is a rather prominent one: it was painted and extolled by many British artists and poets of the 18th century, who found in Germany a land that wasn't already transformed into an industrial state, but mainly characterized by agriculture and Romanticism.