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    Weekend trip to Koblenz!

    It has been a stormy year in many aspects, but regarding the weekend trips, that’s very much the case. We had big trips to the Black Forest and Belgium, which all got cancelled. Seeing all this happen, I thought we…

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    Hiking around Lünen

    So, day II of a long hiking weekend. I could have taken any trail in VRR, but this time, I thought since it would be probably the last hike with corona restrictions (maybe not?), I took a trail in an…

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    Hiking from Merten to Blankenberg

    As the corona restrictions are lifted more and more, the daily life today looks very much like before corona. Then problem for me is, however, there was no significant change for the hikes. Just as it was the case around…

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    Hiking around Essen-Kupferdreh

    As the restrictions are being lifted, I decided to create two hikes every weekend, in the hope to distribute the people more evenly to make the density lower. Quite obviously, it didn’t work. This being said, I guess we are…

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    Expert hike from Kall to Nettersheim

    Last week, I decided to change the group name on MeetUp, from VRR hiking group to VRR VRS hiking group, to express my intention of organising hikes in VRS regularly in a more public way. And so, today we hiked…

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    Hiking from Schwerte to Dortmund

    The summer-ish days vanished all of a sudden with the first drops of rain this week. To be honest, I was slightly relieved, not only because it was quite hot (close to 30 degrees when we hiked last Monday), but…

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    Hiking from Hennef to Siegburg

    It was first Bogdan’s idea to go hiking inside the VRS area (around Köln), when we were in lockdown. We did it a couple of times and I really liked that area. If you live around Düsseldorf you certainly know…