Hiking from Kettwig to Ratingen and Christmas market!
Telling a joke is not quite part of the local culture, but this is maybe because there’s a huge joke here in Germany: German railway. Download kml / gpx This morning, right before the departure time of our train, it…
Hiking around Iserlohn
Just like always, we are nearing the end of the year. And with the arrival of the end of the year, there’s something we usually look forward to: Christmas markets. Since there are only a few weekends where we can…
Hiking from Keil to Heimbach!
Since the end of the 9-euro ticket, we have this promotion that allows us to go everywhere inside NRW for free. As it was so warm last week, I thought we can still have a nice hike in the Eifel,…
Hiking from Barmen to Oberbarmen
It’s not like there’s something really impressive in VRR. It’s just there are really a lot of people living here. Together with the really good weather forecast, there was really nothing that hindered the growth of the group. Download kml…
Hiking around Bensberg
There is usually not much to be happy about with the trains in Germany. However, there was one positive development recently: the NRW-wide promotion for the ticket subscribers got extended, meaning we can travel everywhere inside NRW with any ticket…
Hiking from Langenberg to Nierenhof
There was a nice piece of information that I found yesterday in the evening – the autumn promotion of the local railway companies, which allowed us to travel everywhere in NRW with a ticket on subscription, got extended, meaning we…
Hiking around Overath
It’s been close to 6 years that we are hiking in different areas around Düsseldorf, and now it’s getting increasingly more difficult to find totally new paths. Today, somehow I managed to create a path around Overath, and it was…
Hiking from Wuppertal Steinbeck to Solingen Schaberg
I cannot even remember when was the last time that we hiked fully inside the VRR. It’s still the good old VRR, and I’m really glad that we’re back again. Well, the fact that it’s nearby doesn’t necessarily mean that…
Weekend trip to Como
This year, there were two trips abroad on two weekend trips, both of which took place in France. After their success, I thought we could do the same in a different country. This time, we went a little bit farther:…
Hiking around Aachen and the triple point!
More or less once a year we do this hike around Aachen, going from the central station to the German-Dutch-Belgian triple point. It is now nearly impossible to create a completely new trail, but since I still wanted to do…