Travelling outside Germany.
Hiking tour from Lofthus (100 meters AMSL) to Nosi (1016 meters AMSL) and beyond across the Vidda.
Nosi is an elevation in the Hardangervidda nasjonalpark (national park) in South Norway.
The actual hiking season starts in July in this part of Norway, so in May many footpaths are impassable or untraceable due to (melting) snow, and summer bridges will be … read more
My mother’s parents are from small towns near Wrocław, a city in Lower Silesia that belongs to Poland since 1945.
My grandparents met in the mid-1930s as my grandfather was working as a butcher in and around Breslau1 (which was the German name of Wrocław) and my grandmother was occupied … read more
The Faroe Islands are a group of eighteen islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, boasting beside their remoteness with very erratic and unpredictable weather all year round.
So doing small hikes in the vicinity of settlements like the capital Tórshavn are kind of reasonable outdoor activities, but anything beyond that would be rather foolish during the winter time, especially if you’re hiking alone like myself who is also not familiar … read more
