Hiking around Jülich and Sophienhöhe!
March 3, 2024It’s been more than 7 years since I started organizing hikes and I was feeling I know most of the places for hikes inside NRW. As it turned out, there was a Halde at Jülich I had never been to. As it looked actually pretty good, I decided to organize a hike around there. It’s a pity that I didn’t do it before, because I had a lot of friends around Aachen before. Download kml / gpx It appeared to me like a miracle that we arrived on time today at Düren, where we had to change trains. That’s the…
Hiking from Velbert Langenberg to Nierenhof!
Finally I got two weekends in a row where I could organize a hike. This itself is not really a problem but in my absence Rahul is organizing hikes, and they tend to be a lot more challenging than the…
Hiking from Wuppertal Vohwinkel to Sonnbron!
It was a really busy start of the year. Download kml / gpx After my first hike of the year, there were two things happening at the same time: the concerts of my orchestra and my girlfriend moving to my…
Hiking from Kaldenkirchen to Venlo!
So the new year started, and at the same time it was pretty much the first winter hike without a Christmas market, mainly because I was away so many times. If you don’t know what it is: In the winter,…
Weekend trip to Wissembourg!
If you have been following me for some time, you certainly know that we have visited a lot of places around Düsseldorf on weekend trips. It is so true that as soon as I start thinking about it around there,…
German Belgian Dutch triple point and Christmas market in Aachen!
There is this triple point near Aachen, where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet, which we visit once a year, usually in the summer time. Only recently I realized that I had never organized a hike there. In addition to…
Hiking from Troisdorf to Siegburg and Christmas market!
It’s Christmas time. And with the Christmas time comes the Christmas market. There are some of them which I know are really good, and one of our favourite is this one in Siegburg. We go there almost every year. There…
Hiking from Wuppertal Vohwinkel to Solingen Schaberg
This was the last weekend of this autumn, and I have to say it really feels like winter now. I even heard that in some areas of NRW there was also snow yesterday. Download kml / gpx As I already…
Hiking around Zerkall!
First there was this super gloomy weather forecast. Download kml / gpx Actually right now almost everyday is gloomy, and it was just only natural to believe that it was going to be the same for Sunday. The thing is,…
Hiking from Wetter to Herdecke
This was the autumn that made me realize that corona is now definitely over. Download kml / gpx The main reason why I’m saying this is because all the business trips came back to my life, which forced me to…
Hiking around Rursee
While I was on vacation for 2 weeks, there was a winter here in Düsseldorf. But then as soon as we came back, the temperature skyrocketed. I don’t quite understand how things work in this country. Anyway, since it was…