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…

May started. It’s a very weird period of time here in Germany, as so many holidays appear at once in May and June, frankly only disrupting my life. Anyway there was one this week, the Labour Day. Since I didn’t…

As Hilal kept showing interests, I let him organize yet another hike. I don’t really understand why, but he decided to organize one right next to where he organised his last three hikes. I was slightly upset, but ok it’s…

Last week after I organised a hike, I asked the other people if they were interested to organize a hike. Hilal said yes. Somehow this group is more and more decentralised these days, which I like a lot. Anyway, somehow…

Some people a few years ago told me about this hiking trail called Baldeneysteig, which appeared somewhat interesting. However, by the time I learned it, we had already done almost all of it, so I never really properly paid attention…

I have to admit I’m writing this article 4 weeks after we finished the hike and I don’t really remember the details – the main reason being due to the one for Crete, which took quite some time for me…

There are not so many public holidays in Germany, but there is a particularly long weekend in March or April over Easter. About a year ago, Rohith and I decided to go to Crete over the Easter weekend, as we…