According to an article published in the Guardian, the Earth is warming at a pace unprecedented in 1,000 years. I have already discussed this point three times in this blog, but I think it's worth bringing it up, because some people are still not convinced this is a real phenomenon.

In the last days I had the fortune to visit Iceland for the first time, and I loved the country. The people are very friendly, and the landscapes are just stunning. The capital Reykjavik also has a very cool atmosphere, and it can be quite picturesque, as you can observe in the picture above, taken at the lake Tjörnin with the city hall in the background at the left corner.

Also look at the Geyser blowing off steam every couple of minutes.

And finally, the Þingvellir National Park has some beautiful landscapes.

I was reading this morning about the countries having the highest risk of a natural disaster. Wikipedia has a list with the World Risk Index, calculated by the United Nations University for Environment and Human Security. The map above is generated with this data.

If you have never seen a picture with a soldier like the one in the statue above, then you don't know who Conrad Schumann is. This soldier from the East is one of the first and most famous defectors to West Germany when the border was being built and it was just a line of barbed wire. This statue is located in a building near Bernauer Straße.

A couple of days ago I was walking by the Berliner Dom and I realised I haven't seen the progress of the Humboldt Forum construction in a while. The project is scheduled to finish in 2019, and, as you can see in this picture, it's definitively moving along.

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