There are places south of Düsseldorf we hardly ever visit, mainly because it’s flat, but also because it’s already inside VRS area, meaning we cannot go there for free with the VRR ticket from Düsseldorf. This time, I took it…

While in VRR we have visited a lot of places homogeneously, there are a few places in VRS that are over-represented in this group. Today’s route from Eitorf to Merten is probably a relatively good example. Even though today’s track…

There are a few places in VRR that I’d love to visit more often, but there are simply not many possibilities regarding the public transport. The area around Witten and Wetter is a very good example for this. Still, this…

After the hike around Bensheim, where I was all alone, I thought I might not organise any hike around Frankfurt anymore. This time, however, I had a business trip to Berlin from Monday (meaning arrival Sunday evening), so that I…

Around a month ago, there were a lot of people from Aachen joining the NRW hiking group (which I recently became an admin of) on FB, saying they learnt about this group during the university introduction week. The problem is,…

There was this storm last year in July, which disrupted a lot of connections in North Rhine-Westphalia. One connection was this one from Wuppertal to Essen, which I don’t think is a particularly important one for the region, but if…