66 Seen Weg: the Gamengrund
Day 6 and 7 of the 66 Seen Weg, from Melchow to Strausberg via the Gamengrund. This landscape was formed by a glacier and is now a tranquil area for walkers and bikers.
66 Seen Weg: lake hopping
Day 5 on the 66 Seen Weg, a long distance walk around Berlin. The walk goes from Wensickendorf to Melchow, passing many beautiful lakes along the way.
66 Seen Weg: walking through a fairytale
Day 4 of the 66 Seen Weg around Berlin. Today I’m walking from Hennigsdorf to Wensickendorf, entering a fairy tale landscape in the gorgeous Briesetal.
66 Seen weg: through forest and fields to Hennigsdorf
Day 3 of the 66 Seen walk around Berlin takes you from Brieseland to Hennigsdorf. You’ll see the Havel Canal and nice mixed forests.
66 Seen Weg: starting the walk
The first two days of the long distance walk 66 Seen Weg that loops around Berlin take you from Potsdam to Brieselang via Marquardt. It’s starts with the beautiful Potsdamer gardens and then follows the Havel Canal North East.
Keeping up
The last 2 – 3 months have been a rush. I’ve been flying all over Europe, rushing from one place to the next, barely sleeping in my own bed. At the end of October I was in Romania for Halloween, straight through to Greece for work. Then after one night…
Teufelsberg: where history turned into art
After the second world war Berlin was a mess. There was rubble everywhere and the people, a lot of them women, started to clean up the streets. This resulted in some rubble hills, that are now the highest points in the city and are often surrounded by park. The 120…
All the way to the throne
In the North-Eastern corner of Germany you can find the beautiful Jasmund national park. This ancient natural area still has forest that have stood her since the ice age and has dramatic cliffs diving into the sea. It’s the perfect area for nice long walk in the shade of the…
Tourism for the masses in Prora
Living in Berlin opens up a whole new world of weekend trips. It seems hard to find the time to relax and get away from it all, so I decided to commit to buying train tickets. I was pretty tired when I made my way to Gesundbrunnen, from where the…
The Spreewald
It seems like summer came on the first of June this year. From pretty chilly temperatures, we went to 28 degrees. What a change! And that on a Saturday! Time to go exploring. It was still quiet on the streets when I walked to the train station. However, at the…