Back in my home base in Berlin I have been deliberating trail options. Not too many countries are open without quarantine and not even all o...

The Pusza Romincka (Rominter Heide) is a huge forest, now partly in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and partly in Poland. The border is o...

Although Olsztyn (Allenstein) had survived WW II relatively undamaged, it was destroyed by the Soviet Army, the German population was displa...

 After Poznan I finally left the Camino and continued on hiking trails. This route had been a suggestion of accomplished Polish long-distanc...

To be honest the Camino route across Poland is not really very exciting. The landscape is dead flat, there is very little forest but endless...

At the bridge across river Neiße in Görlitz Like one year ago I took the train to Görlitz - only that it snowed this time! I went to the exa...

After one year of Corona restrictions many countries are still (or again) closed to tourists, my original plan to hike in the US went down t...