Hiking from Walporzheim to Ahrweiler and wine festival!
September 8, 2024Davy this week was talking about this wine festival in Ahrweiler, which I was not really aware of. For some reason he didn’t want to do it on Sunday for the whole group, so I basically took over his idea and organized a hike there. There was a flood a few years ago in this area, and for some time there was no train at all. Now fortunately the railway line got repaired, but only up to Walporzheim, so I created a trail from there. Pity, because there are more interesting trails farther away. I put the event on Wednesday…
Hiking around Letmathe Dechenhöhle
So I came back from Greece yesterday. I had a possibility to organize a hike today, but since Rahul was interested to do so, I let him do it. After two weeks of really hot weather in Greece, I was…
Hiking around Lennep
There’s this lost legacy of the previous German administration: German railway. They yet again managed to marked history by cancelling our train connection at Hagen. This time, fortunately, they announced it one day in advance, so that we could act…
Hiking around Herchen
Technology is (sometimes) really great. Now as we move ahead, I sometimes really feel it. I’m basically talking about the new chat bot that I wrote recently, which creates hiking events automatically. Now you can see different announcements on my…
Hiking around Overath
This week, all the other organizers are somehow elsewhere, and so there was not so much pressure on me to organize a challenging hike. So I put one in Overath, which lies right next to Cologne. It’s an area that…
Hiking from Bad Breisig to Andernach
Now for a few days I’m working on the Telegram bot again. This time in order to make automatic creation of events for everyone, especially after I saw different standards last week. Now it’s more or less ready, but everyone…
Hiking from Untermaubach to Hausen
I have talked about it for a few weeks now, but we got a new organizer, who used to organize hikes in the Cologne hiking group. As I have already said a few times before, the admin of that group,…
Hiking from Solingen-Schaberg to Sengbach
If there’s one place that I take people from outside of Germany to, then Solingen-Schaberg definitely comes to my mind, with the neatly organized nature and the Schlossburg, which is a medieval-looking castle you can enter. Today, as there was…
Weekend trip to the Pyrenees!
After the weekend trip to Ax les Thermes two years ago, I always thought about going to the Pyrenees again. There was one obvious choice for me: to go along the HRP, which is a hiking trail that goes along…
Hiking from Brachbach to Siegen
It’s been seven years hiking around Düsseldorf for me, but there are some areas that we don’t visit very often. Siegen being one of the biggest (?) cities in NRW, we rarely go there. The main reason is because it’s…
Hiking from Braubach to Koblenz
There’s this super annoying thing called Deutsche Bahn. This time it got us really hard again. Download kml / gpx This time we anyway had a fairly tight schedule with 10 min time to change trains at Koblenz to go…
