Jolanda

Jolanda

Day 60, Rheinbach – Bonn

Weather:☁️🌥️🌧️🌥️ 🌥️Lunch: 🌭🌭🌭🌭(3 out 5, currywurst at a waldgasthaus)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice track through forest and farmlands, with nice views) Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌🛌( 4 out of 5, cool hotel with retro themed room and decorations!)Name of followed trail:…

Day 59, Kreuzweingarten – Rheinbach

Weather:☁️🌧️🌥️🌧️🌥️ 🌧️(we practiced getting in and out of raingear several times today. I think soon we’ll earn our merit badge ‘change into raingear’)Picnic: 🍓🍓🍓🍨🍨 (5 out 5, we found a farm shop across from a picnic bench and had strawberries…

Day 58, 1500 km Kommern – Kreuzweingarten

Weather: ☁️🌧️☁️🌧️🌥️ Lunch: 🥪🥪 (2 out 5, we only had muesli bars and a capsicum) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice forest trail) Milestone: 1500 km!Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌🛌( 4 out of 5, nice hotel, again with closed restaurant) Name of…

Day 57, Vogelsang IP – Kommern

Weather: 🌧️🌧️☁️☁️🌥️Lunch: 🥪🥪 (2 out 5, we only had muesli bars and a capsicum)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, beautiful track through forest and farmlands )Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌( 3 out of 5, basic hotel with closed restaurant)Name of followed trail: unmarked…

Day 56, Heimbacher stausee – Vogelsang IP

Weather: ☁️☁️☁️🌥️🌥️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, Erbsensuppe with Bockwurst in the restaurant at Vogelsang) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, beautiful forest track through the Eifel National Park, with views of the Rursee and Vogelsang) Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌( 3 out of…

Day 55, Zweifall Kartoffelbaum – Heimbacher stausee

Weather: 🌥️🌤️☀️☀️🌤️(perfect hiking weather) Picnic: 🍖🍺🍖🍺🍖🍺 (6 out 5, BBQ picnic with our friends Niels and Saskia who came over for the afternoon to have a great picnic!) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, beautiful hilly forest track, last part…

Day 54, Aachen – Zweifall Kartoffelbaum

Weather: ☁️☁️☁️🌥️🌥️ (perfect hiking weather) Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, strawberries as an appetizer along the way, Bread and coffee at the bakery in Kornelimunster and waffles with strawberries on our surprise stop! Would have been 5 our of 5…

Zeroday 11, Aachen

Time to sleep in today! I woke up at 7 anyway, but it was good to be in bed with a cup of tea without a rush. I work on planning the next section of the trail to Koblenz, while…

Day 53, Geilenkirchen – Aachen

Weather: 🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️☁️ (drizzle all day long with a dry walk into Aachen the last 2 kms)Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, breakfast at a bakery in Geilenkirchen and lunch in Hertzogenrath) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, beautiful bright green forest…

Day 52, Wassenberg – Geilenkirchen

Weather: 🌥️🌥️☁️☁️🌧️ Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, 2nd breakfast at a bakery in Oberbruck and picnic lunch with the bread we brought from there) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, enjoyable trail along the rivers Ruhr and Worms) Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌🛌(…