Weather:🌧️🌧️☁️🌧️🌧️ (drizzle all day, combined with a few moments of Irish dry)Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, nice bread from the bakery in Dinkelsbühl, with ham from the butcher we found along the trail. Picnic spot was less impressive, at a…
Time to sleep in! Only a little, but it feels really good. We have a great hotel with good beds and… a good breakfast included. The only thing we don’t have is a laundrette nearby. This means that half of…
Weather:🌧️☁️☁️☁️🌧️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, nice bread from the bakery in Crailsheim, on a dry spot at a barn) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through fields and villages)Milestone: 35 km today, my leg injury seems truly healed🙏Hotel:…
Weather:🌧️☁️☁️☁️⛅Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, bread and with ham and cheese at the river Jagst, brought from the bakery where we had a good 2nd breakfast) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through forest, fields and villages, especially…
Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, good lunch at the Brothaus in Rothenburg ob der Tauber) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, nice trail along the river, through fields and villages. Milestone: We heard our first cowbells this hike. Home…
Weather: 🌤️🌤️☀️☀️🌤️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪 (5 out 5, flammkuchen and kaiserschmarrn in Cregelingen) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through forest, fields and villages)Marking of the trail: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 out of 5 stars, mostly easy to follow)Trailmarking vs GPX: ❔❔❔❔(4…
Weather:⛅🌤️🌤️☀️🌤️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, good 2 step lunch in Bad Mergentheim) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, nice trail through forest, fields and villages) Broken gear: Hiking pole no3Best item on trail: the slide! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5 out of 5…
Weather:☁️⛅🌧️⛅☁️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, good lunch in Tauberbischofheim) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through forest, fields and villages) Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat-ish, spot with shelter and bin) Name of followed trail: Main…
Weather:☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, lunch at a cafe in Wertheim) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪 (2 out of 5, somewhat overgrown trail through forest and Wertheim) Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺⛺ (4 out of 5, flat, grassy spot with toilets, next to the hotel) Name…
Weather:☁️⛅☁️🌤️🌤️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, good lunch at the bakery in Collenberg) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice undulating trail through the forest, fields and villages) Milestone: 2000km!Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat, grassy spot next to the…
Weather:🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, at a bakery in Klingenberg) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through the forest and vineyards) Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat-ish, in the forest, just above a vineyard) Name of…
Weather:🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️ Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, basic lunch in the shade with lavas bread 😁) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through fields and forest) Campsite: ⛺⛺ (2 out of 5, flat, grassy spot on a (camper) parkinglot…
The most ‘zero-y’ zeroday so far! We slept in, had breakfast and started the laundry. We sat on the couch doing… nothing but drink coffee and tea. Yes I worked on emptying my SD card onto my Google drive, and…
Weather:☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️🥵 Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, nice bread from the bakery in Lindenfels, that we brought after our 2nd breakfast there 😁)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, pretty trail through fields, villages and forest with great views. A bit of…
Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪 (5 out 5, great burrata sandwich at Cafe Louise in Auerbach.) Milestone: We crossed E1 today, the ERA’s north – south trailTrack: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, pretty trail through fields, villages and forest with great views.…
Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, picnic in 2 stages. Stage 1: fruits next to the honesty store and stage 2: bread in the shade next to the trail) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through Worms, fields,…
Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ (🥵 getting used to it though..) Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, with bread and cheese from the supermarket, in the shade) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, lovely trail through villages, vineyards and fields) Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌🛌 (4 out of…
Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ (🥵🥵) Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, We shared the final 3 wraps in a bench in a field. We were happy that we got the canned bratwurst from the Hühnerhaus as a topping)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, great…
Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ (Too hot 🥵🥵) Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, late but very welcome lunch and drinks at restaurant Picnic. So technically we could call it a Picnic lunch 😁. Very friendly staff too.)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (5 out of 5 great trail…
Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ (Too hot 🥵🥵)Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, good pasta and 2 big glasses schorle (soda)!) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (5 out of 5 great trail through forest and vineyards with amazing views) Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺⛺⛺ (5 out of 5, camping Nahetal with…
Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, good lasagna and 2 big glasses rabarber schorle!)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 🤩 (4 out of 5 + 1 happy face for the amazing views!, the rest was a great forest trail)Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ ( 3 out of 5,…
Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, wraps in the shade with cheese and banana/Nutella!)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 🤩 (4 out of 5 + 1 happy face for the amazing views!, the rest was a great forest trail)Trail markings:❓❓❓❓(4 out of 5 question marks,…
Weather:🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps at one of our first springs on trail!)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 🤩(3 out of 5 + 1 happy face for the views over Oberwesel, the rest was a nice forest trail)Trail markings:❓❓❓❓(4 out of 5 question…
Weather:☁️⛅🌧️⛅⛅Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, flammkuchen at a beautiful spot, in an unfriendly restaurant)Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🥵 (4 out of 5 and 1 pfooh for some steep tracks)Trail markings:❓❓❓❓(4 out of 5 question marks, because we’ve only seen a handful of markers…
Since we have passed one of the important thru hiking milestones of 1000 miles it’s time to make a post about the distances that matter to us, and what our defenition of a thru hike is. While this is personal…
We slept in and made the appartment do most of our work. It cleaned the dishes and did our laundry while we went for a good lunch and a resupply. Great to have all these machines in our appartment 😁😁.…
Weather:☁️🌧️🌧️☁️☁️ (raingear needed this time) Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🙂🙂 (3 out 5 for the bread and coffee at a gas station + 2 smileys for 2 happy hikers out of the rain!) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5 first part was really…
Weather:☁️🌧️☁️🌧️☁️ (‘Irish dry’ most of the day. Rain that’s not worth putting on your raingear) Lunch: 🍰🍰🍕🍕🍕 (5 out 5, late lunch in Andernach. First a really good piece of cake in a café where the kitchen was closed, and…
Weather:🌤️🌥️🌤️🌥️☁️(perfect hiking weather) Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🧁(5 out 5, good flammkuchen and a beautiful little cake as dessert!) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, nice track through the forest and villages)Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌 (3 out of 5, nice hotel) Name of followed trail:…
Weather:🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️(perfect hiking weather!)Picnic: 🥪🥪(2 out 5, wraps in front of a closed bakery) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, nice track through forest and farmlands with orchards everywhere, with beautiful views over the Rhein valley) Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺( 3 out of…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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: 🛌🛌🛌🛌(…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, bread from the bakery and fruit from the supermarket in a park across the street from the shops) Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through forest and farmland. Kalkar town was…
This morning we had no alarm. No need to get up and pack. Happy times. However we do stay in the Kirchstraße… At 7.00 the church bells were ringing loud and clear! So we had snooze time, which is even…
Weather: ☀️☀️☀️🌤️🌤️ Lunch: 🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞 (5 out 5, great pancakes at the Duivelsberg with my parents) Track: 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, lovely forest and change scenery with hills and villages) Milestone: Netherlands ✅Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌 (3 out 5, simple appartment with…
Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪 (5 out 5, we had a great lunchtour in Nijmegen. First empanadas at Gesha we went to for coffee and then at Downtown, where we had great sandwiches)Track: 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 (3 out of 5 nothing too special,…
Weather: ☁️🌤️☀️☀️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out of 5 good 2nd breakfast at the supermarket and lunch in Ochten)Track: 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 (3 out of 5 not bad at all, yet not really special either. Another day on trail) Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out…