There are not so many places we visit several times on weekend trips, the only one being Koblenz so far. I still wanted to organize this Winterberg trip, because the last one was in the winter and was therefore a…

I organized a hike from Obernhof to Bad Ems a few weeks ago, when I got corona and couldn’t join myself. The people told me that it was one of the best hikes ever (which I totally believe). In order…

Since the introduction of the 9-euro ticket, we always went either outside of NRW or towards the Northwest of NRW. Today, pretty much for the first time since then, we hiked in the nearby area, in the Eifel. Download kml…

There have been a few occasions where I thought about going to the Möhnesee, which is a lake near the city of Soest, essentially somewhere behind Dortmund (seen from Düsseldorf). So far the main problem has been the fact that…

High summer is here. I can’t even remember when it was that it rained last time (except for the short rain on Sunday). Apparently the real heatwave is coming at the beginning of next week. In this regard, we are…

I sometimes look up apartments in different parts of Germany and sometimes I find something interesting. That was very much the case for the apartment I got for this city, Goslar, as it was not even 300€ for an entire…

As you might already know, north of North Rhine Westphalia is mostly flat, but there are a few hill range that go from east to west, mostly drawing the same arch as the boundary to Lower Saxony. Today, we walked…

Yet another long weekend arrived. For personal reasons, I’m available only today, and since there was a friend of mine organizing a birthday party in Bonn, I organized a hike around Ahrweiler, which is a bit outside of NRW, although…

In order to limit the oil consumption in Germany, the German government decided to introduce this thing called 9-euro ticket, which, as the name suggests, costs 9 euro a month and is valid for all regional trains in Germany. Whether…

For some reasons, Germany has an extremely concentrated period of holidays in June. And every year, I need a bit of creativity to come up with a plan to make a nice weekend trip (although it sort of fell apart…