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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Somehow it does not really give the summer feeling in Germany this year yet, but it’s already time to think about going a little bit farther away, to explore more wild areas. That was what I was vaguely thinking when…