Hiking around the Geiseltalsee

Hiking around the Geiseltalsee

You know that: commercial brochures always promise you the best experience ever. The brochure „Naturelebnis Saale-Unstrut“ just told me that visiting and hiking aroudn the Geiseltalsee would be it. The lake is supposed to be the biggest man-made of its kind within Germany. We intend to bicycle around the water body. The circle around the lake is 26 km long.

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Corona-diary: An afternoon at Jena

Corona-diary: An afternoon at Jena

Friday afternoon the sky is grey and rainy. Not the best conditions for sports activities outside. So why not pay a visit to a city nearbye? We choose Jena, a university town. Jena is home of the Friedrich-Schiller university. Moreover the city of lights of Thuringia has more than 330 historic monuments, which are being renovated time after time since

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Corona diary: the terrassed vineyard of Kaatschen

Corona diary: the terrassed vineyard of Kaatschen

I’ve already been to the kingdom of heaven last weekend, at that time I continued in direction of Bad Sulza. This time I wanted to do the same on a different path, i.e. via wine village Kaatschen. Unfortunately the dwindling daylight put a spoke into our wheel. So we did not made it to Bad Sulza. Still it was a

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Corona diary: Thrill at the Saale-Radweg

Corona diary: Thrill at the Saale-Radweg

Did you ever heard of the slogan „Get your kicks on route 66“? If not, it does not really matter, because you can get your thrill much cheaper and with a long-distance flight. Where? On the Saale-Radweg. These days everything is subordinated to an adventure-culture: If it is nacked hiking, diner in the dark or bungee-jumping. But, did you ever

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Corona-diary: At the Kingdom of heaven

Corona-diary: At the Kingdom of heaven

A hike to the Himmelreich ( „Kingdom of heaven“) that sounds tempting to me. The Himmelreichweg is a geological path, which I’d like to extend until Bad Sulza. The destination is not too far away and offers numerous possibilities to explore the region a little bit further. The wonderful autumn weather this year dives both, the landscape and the sights

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Corona diary: Naumburg and the Saale-Wein-Weg

Corona diary: Naumburg and the Saale-Wein-Weg

Despite the Corona lockdown the motto this autumn is: discover Germany in all its facets. Today’s hiking tour leads us from Bad Kösen to Schulpforta and the former Cistercian cloister. From there we walk through the „Kalte Tal“ to Naumburg. The way back leads us through the autumnal vineyards along the Saale-Wein-Weg: an eye catcher of a special kind. Und:

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Corona diary: respite at Bad Kösen

Corona diary: respite at Bad Kösen

Upon rising Corona cases and increasing panic it is advisable to look for some calm and relaxing place offside the sources of infection. Such as place is the spa Bad Kösen at Sachsen-Anhalt. If it were not for the closed cafés and restaurants nobody would guess that Corona exists here. Lovely vineyards, castles, salinas and a multitude of hiking trails

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Corona diary: Farewell my summer love

Corona diary: Farewell my summer love

„Farewell my summer love“ was a song by Michael Jackson. Some kind of melancholy resonated with it, now it is here. Summer has definitely gone by, the first half of autumn is over and I am taking some time off from everyday life. An everyday life that gets more stressful, Corona makes it even more difficult. But I does not

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Corona-diary: Hiking on foggy heights

Corona-diary: Hiking on foggy heights

Still impressed by last week’s „Green Circuit“ high above Wildemann this saturday we started at S. Andreasberg. On the internet I discovered the ridgeway hiking trail around St. Andreasberg. According to my weather app the day should be really sunny and war. Well, that did not work out, still it was a nice walk because a foggy mood on October

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Corona-diary: Art exhibition opening of Dariush Farazi

Corona-diary: Art exhibition opening of Dariush Farazi

It is my first art exhibition opening of the year. And it will be my last. The lockdown is back again – this time in a „light“ version. It is supposed to be a calories reduced alternative to the full shutdown in March. It is for the second time that we have to renounce exhibitions, cinemas or theatres, meeting with

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