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Hiking adventures
Hiking the Fishermen’s Trail. What to pack. For any long distance hike, the general rule is to pack as lightly as possible and nothing but the bare necessities, although that last part might have come from a singing cartoon bear. I wholeheartedly agree with two exceptions: I always bring one luxury item. Something I definitely…
Hiking the Fishermen’s Trail. Introduction The Fishermen’s Trail is considered one of if not the most beautiful coastal trails. I had it bookmarked for quite some time, and in November 2024, I set out to experience it myself. Beforehand, like with any holiday, and even more diligently so when hiking, I spent a long time…
Luckily, the mountains are ancient and when we’re long gone they will still continue to be. And that, dear readers, is my philosophical lame excuse as to why more than half a year has passed since our mouther-daughter hiking trip. A giant leap for mankind but a significant fraction of a second for the Alps!…
(For the non-German speaking readers: the first headline is a very bad Dad joke. Kalauer, Kalauer, as we like to say. You should not be surprised) My mum and I went on a holiday together. Just the two us. Six days in a hotel in Davos, Switzerland, with half-board and plenty of mountains to conquer!…
I have never seen Into the Wild and I have never seen Wild – somehow I feel the need to make that absolutely clear, maybe because both movies caused a wave of new hikers on their self-finding paths, and especially the latter resulted in female hiker numbers rocketing through the sky. I’m not saying that…
This is a new section on the blog! For a big, big endeavour. And also a big, big maybe. Due to the current events aka Covid, it is absolutely uncertain if I will be even allowed to travel and do what I’ve been planning for months now. But hope is (second) last to die and…