Tag Archives: Germany 🇩🇪
Return Of The Caboose
This post is about the Return Of The Caboose. Several friends are involved in making her resurrection possible. And then, after one week, I received a call from building management: the janitor had told them that he had managed to retrieve the Caboose! Retrieve from… the scrap press? No. According to the janitor, she had […]
how the Caboose disappeared
This post is about how the Caboose disappeared in Munich. Apparently a janitor decided to take her to a recycling yard. I had gone on a little vacation. There was a direct train from Munich to Rimini. Rimini was the place where I had lost all my stuff once, when someone had stolen my backpack […]
Munich
This post is about a 20km walk from Waldtrudering to Munich. I have lunch in my favorite restaurant, get drenched and drunk. You live in an oasis, I told Anja as we were having breakfast. And it was true. I had crossed a few other oases before, big ones like Zhangye in Gansu and tiny […]
the oasis
This post is about a 24km walk from Taglaching to Waldtrudering. I walk along a busy road for most of the day, then I reach an oasis. The evening had come with a series of questions and answers. First I ran into Andi, a young guy who was cleaning his car in the garage of […]
alpine
This post is about a 24km walk from Viehhausen to Taglaching. I walk through forests and alpine landscapes, and I have a pistachio croissant. Everything was wet but my stuff wasn’t. The evening before I had asked at a random farm if I could pitch my tent on their property. “Sure”, they had said, and […]
water castle
This post is about a 21km walk from the Inn riverside to Viehhausen. I walk through Wasserburg am Inn and feel a weird sense of pressure. I woke up a few times during the night because it rained. Each time it was only a light drizzle, and I was safe in my bivouac sack. But […]
little screams
This post is about a 14km walk from Kemating to the Inn riverside. I wake up in a field, visit an abbey, and sleep next to the river. The night before, as I was looking for a place to sleep, I ran into Sepp I. He was an outdoor enthusiast about to go into retirement, […]
cakes and camps
This post is about a 22km walk from Mühldorf to Kemating. I have cake with Louise, and then I visit a bunker in a forest. The town was very quiet in the morning. Maybe it was because today was a Sunday. Or maybe everyone was just sleeping off their hangover from the night before. stuck […]
thank the Black Madonna
This post is about an 18km walk from Altötting to Mühldorf. My friend Louise and I see a Black Madonna and go to a street festival. It had rained a bit during the night, so everything was wet when I got up. So I sat in Alois’ yard for a few hours, doing my exercises, […]
swathe
This post is about a 17km walk from Burghausen to Altötting. I start walking in light rain and make my way through a forest to Alois’ farm. I ended up staying three days in Burghausen. They were hot and lazy days. Every morning the weather report would predict thunderstorms, and every day all day the […]
the longest castle
This post is about a visit to the longest castle in the world. It’s in Burghausen, and it is long alright. I had originally been planning to cross the border to Germany at Braunau. When I checked the map, however, and read that the longest castle in the world was here in Burghausen, a mere day’s […]
dicks out for Bavaria
This post is about a 25km walk from Braunau am Inn to Burghausen. I enter Germany, but there is only a penis and a sign saying Bavaria. I spent a quiet day in Braunau. Then, on the second morning, I gathered my stuff and started walking. how to leave Braunau First there was the question […]