VRR’s summer promotion is still going on, but as a friend of mine was organizing his birthday party in Essen, today we hiked from Kettwig to Werden, which is somewhat far from the city center, but still within the city…

Since the beginning of the weekend trips, I have had suggestions for various places. One of the most suggested places was the Black Forest. After all, this is most likely the most famous natural area in Germany, and probably one…

And here we go, it happened again. There was this storm this week in this area of Germany which allegedly brought everything into disarray. That’s certainly true, but it’s also true that it was more a local effect. Here in…

I always knew it could happen. But I never thought it really would. And this time, it did. I feel so stupid about it. This week, I was so excited about my new program, that retraces the trails according to…

Maybe something rather unrelated first: I created a programme to adapt existing hiking trails to the information available on OpenStreetMap. It’s not really different from what Komoot does, but anyway now you don’t have to see points badly off the…

“Annus horribilis” This is what Queen Elizabeth called 1994. I don’t know what she wanted to refer to, but if ever she had looked at my hiking events, that’s what she’d have called the winter season 2020-2021, after I had…