One more day in Berlin, before we take the night train back to Belgium. Fortunately it’s not going to be super hot, there’s even a short drizzle this morning while we’re packing! Ready for check-out, we ask the concierge around nine thirty where we can leave the bike and bags and he replies that we… Continue reading A bunker with modern art
If you’ve traveled a lot in Europe and made a point of visiting the big museums, then you’ll have seen enough of the big masters like Picasso, Rubens, .. that you feel permitted to move on to lesser known art museums. I had hoped to visit the Pergamon museum because I wanted to see the… Continue reading Two lesser known museums and vegetable gastronomy
Up at seven, the usual breakfast and morning routine and we’re off again. It’s going to be a hot day - 30 deg C - but we don’t mind at all, as we’ll be spending it in the green and cool of the Berlin botanical garden. It’s not in the center, but we can take… Continue reading Berlin Botanical Garden
My eyes pop open before six thirty. No problem, my mom’s awake as well, so we decide to get up. We have an early breakfast (fruit/yoghurt again) because Mom needs to go get a shipping box at a nearby store. The trick is to ship most of the bike and camping gear home with a… Continue reading A shopping day
The agreement yesterday was to not get up before six thirty. I do wake up a few times during the night - unfamiliar bed, unfamiliar noises - but I feel rested by the time my mom shouts a good morning from the next room. The plans for today have changed after a brief review of… Continue reading Modern architecture and modern food
As promised by the Eurosleeper schedule, I arrived in Berlin at 06:18 in the morning. Mom had proposed to come and pick me up, but that’s just crazy at this ungodly hour if we’re only returning to the apartment anyway. I take the first taxi in the row - the driver is not impressed with… Continue reading Some random strolling
Up at eight, breakfast with a book and slow internet. There’s a wooden sign on the kitchen counter saying ‘Sorry! No WI-FI, talk to each other and get drunk’. So if we want to look up info on a walk or the distance to a thing to see, we have to route it through a… Continue reading Rursee
I love German, really do. We arrived in Heimbach (Germany) yesterday in the early evening, about a three hour drive from home, but in a different world. Heimbach translates literally to ‘home rivulet’, there’s a few towns in Germany with that name so you have to check the postal code when inputting the address into… Continue reading Heimbach
Up at seven! We’re ambitious today and want to both walk and visit a castle, so we try to be a bit more efficient with our morning routine. For the walk, last week I investigated the sights, the paths and parking options and came up with a tour of about 12 km. The parking is… Continue reading Bunkers
Up at seven thirty today, though I woke up a few times before that (again). We’re close by a road with quite some traffic, plus we slept with the windows open to cool the room down, hence the hiccups. We take our entire electronics stock down for breakfast: phone & tablet for organising the day,… Continue reading Flexible loop
Since we were in so late yesterday, we decided to forgo an alarm. I wake up a few times during the night, but suddenly it’s eight thirty. We have a leisurely breakfast - I combine American pancakes with vanilla sauce and mixed nuts and love it - and discuss the options for today. It’s only… Continue reading Sequoias etc
Normally these blog reports start with getting up from bed, but today I must admit I’ve been lazy and didn’t write yesterday about yesterday’s adventures, so this post kicks off with a summary. I can even be very brief, because it must have been one of the most frustrating holiday launches ever. We finished our… Continue reading Traffic jams
Today should be a snowy day, I mean it'll snow on and off the whole day. At breakfast we go over the different options: we'd like to walk in the forest again, but have exhausted the local options if we stick to approved routes for winter hiking. We decide to drive to the next valley… Continue reading Under the Zinnkopf
The balloonists called yesterday evening to confirm that they would be flying today, so this morning at ten thirty we show up at the camping site they use for take off and landing. We've been seeing these hot air balloons in the sky the last few days and we're really excited to go up ourselves,… Continue reading Frillensee
Today is a resting day, that means no backpacks, no heavy hiking boots and not too much snow. We are planning to visit Herrenchiemsee, a 238 ha island in the Chiemsee lake, not to far from where we're sleeping. The morning dawns clear, without the usual blanket of fog, but the temperature is well below… Continue reading Herrenchiemsee
Since we finished our walk so early yesterday, we decided to slow down a bit: up at seven thirty, breakfast at eight and we start walking around ten. It should be another sunny, cloudless day and I put on the same combination of layers. Our route starts from the hotel, leads us eastward out of… Continue reading Bäckeralmrunde
8:547:187:08 Alarm at seven, we've asked for breakfast at seven thirty. We're staying in an Aparthotel, where you basically rent an appartment but get all the services of a hotel if you want them, including breakfast. The friendly young lady who welcomed us yesterday had asked if we had any preferences and we said we'd… Continue reading Snow!
A good night, we wake up with the alarm at seven and the first thing we do is look out over the lake to watch the sun come up. As predicted the cloud cover is pretty low, but there's a hole that makes the lake glow with the reflection of the new day. Off to… Continue reading Die Deutsche Alpenstraße
It wasn't a great night.. noisy bed, lumpy pillows. Then again, we booked this hotel using loyalty points on the booking platform so it's basically free and that's an enjoyable fact. The reception was closed the day before and we used a code to get our key from a safe, but this morning there is… Continue reading Back in Konstanz
Today starts as a regular work day, so the electronic bird song starts at six ten. This time is perfectly calculated to allow me to hop into my cycling cloths, grab my soup from the bridge and start my bike commute to work, but today's special. I quickly fold yesterdays clean laundry, fresh from the… Continue reading To the Alps!
Alarm at 7. I slept well, we leave the window open at night for fresh air, so the room is chilly but I'm warm under the thick blanket. We already have a plan for today, so it's just the usual routine to get ready. I run out of ham when fixing lunch, so use the… Continue reading Dicke Tannen
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