Gerald  I had met Gerald aka Wildniswanderer on a German outdoor internet forum. He had found my blog and contacted me via email when h...

View of the Wartburg in Eisenach The Rennsteig terminates in Hoerschel which is a tiny suburb of Eisenach, where the Elisabethpfad start...

At Blankenstein several long-distance hiking trails meet: Frankenweg, Fraenkischer Gebirgsweg, Rennsteig and Kammweg. Here I changed from ...

Snow right from the start I knew I would have a cold start, both physically and weather wise. Before my start date I had studied webcams...

In a couple of days I will start my hike through Western Europe and that means that my sedentary life in Berlin will come to an end. I will ...

I have spent almost two months researching this trip. Preparing one of the famous existing long-distance trails like the Appalachian Trail o...

Right now I am planning the longest continouos hiking trip I have ever done: Inspired by a book by Nicholas Crane called "Clear waters ...