Hiking around Essen Steele and Christmas market
December 22, 2024First of all: When you plan a hike, don’t take a random one from Komoot – you never know how good it is. Sometimes it’s just horrible, just so horrible that you might think they posted it on purpose. It’s obviously not just a problem of Komoot. Everywhere in the internet you can find those horrible hikes. Today, Hilal fell apparently right into it, and I was not careful enough to see that 60% asphalt is just not normal. Yes, today’s hike was a massive 60% asphalt. In this regard, we were maybe a little bit lucky because the weather…
Hiking around Herzogenrath and Christmas market!
There’s this stretch of nature that I have been aware of for some time near Herzogenrath. It’s a very narrow area that you would probably not notice if you take a look at the map of North Rhine Westphalia. You…
Hiking around Haltern!
It was a very cold week. There were even some moments with snow. I was thinking we really don’t want to do a complicated hike this week. Davy, who likes to organize longer hikes, in the meantime organized one in…
Hiking around Bad Münstereifel
First my personal stuff: I got married, which was also the reason why I was away for three weeks. Amalia and I had a wonderful wedding in Japan and a great time following the wedding. So much so that she…
Hiking from Altena to Werdohl
Due to the weekend trip and my business trip to Berlin and Prague, I was away for 3 weeks. I’m sure that people are really getting used to other organizers than me. This time it was organized by Rahul, so…
Weekend trip to the French Ardennes
It must have been some time last year that I was looking around the area of Ardennes when I found this beautiful house at the Belgian French border. It was extremely cheap, and as we got a few cars, it…
Hiking from Walporzheim to Ahrweiler and wine festival!
Davy 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…
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…