Jolanda

Jolanda

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: 🛌🛌🛌🛌(…

Day 51, Overhetfeld – Wassenberg

Weather: 🌤️☁️🌥️☁️🌦️ (warm and humid 🥵 ) Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, lunch from the backpack. With fresh strawberries though!) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, pretty forest trail today) Campsite: (5 out of 5, flat spot at camper parking…

Day 50, Landgasthaus Waldesruh – Overhetfeld

Weather: 🌥️🌥️☁️☁️🌧️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪 (5 out 5, 2nd breakfast in Kaldenkirche and a really good lunch at Cafe de Grens in the Netherlands)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, very enjoyable trail along rivers and streams through the forest) Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺⛺( 4…

Day 49, Escheln – Landgasthaus Waldesruh

Weather: 🌤️🌦️☀️☀️🌥️⛈️ (hot and humid 🥵 )Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, lunch from the backpack. 2nd lunch at the Landgasthaus)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through forest and farmland, I think we’ll have many of these in our…

Day 48, 1250 km Alpen – Escheln

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ (again)Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, early lunch from the backpack. The magical wraps from England are finally being used. We had 2nd lunch afterwards at a bakery in Rheurdt)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through forest…

Day 47, Mariënbaum – Alpen

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ (hiker suitable 100%, best hiking weather one can wish for! Sunny yet not to hot, with a light breeze)Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, bread from the bakery under the windmill and strawberries from the market on a bench)Track:…