Rimo

Today I took a walk over grassy paths and through the orchard of Vaalsbroek Castle. The first three photos show the splendor of the blossoms in Sint-Truiden (Belgium) from yesterday. Use the blossom meter to plan a visit to the Limburg/Belgium border region: visitsinttruiden.be/aanbod/bloesemmeter

Even

This weekend I am traveling and will be leaving after a few last-minute purchases.



However, I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy Easter and briefly explain where the custom of the Easter bunny and the Easter egg comes from:



The Easter bunny seems to have its origins in a local tradition

Today I am hiking from Nijswiller to Vaals, the second part of my tour from yesterday. I used to run these two stages (16 km) in one go, but I can no longer manage that. It doesn't matter, that way I have two days to enjoy it. It is cold, but the sun quickly comes up and warms the landscape (and me

On this glorious, sunny weather, I'm enjoying the walk along the Eyserbos with its impressive row of Italian poplars.



I take the bus to Gulpen and then hike via Cartils and Kruisberg to the Eyserbos. The sun-drenched panoramic view over the Geul valley and the Eys ridge is fantastic as always. At the

It is cool and dry, and so early in the morning there is still little pollen. I walk along the outskirts of Vaals to the weekly market. There I buy asparagus for Easter: green asparagus and white asparagus tips. I love asparagus, but the stalks of white asparagus contain too many long, fibrous strands

I didn't participate in the group hike today because I didn't know how much my hay fever would still affect me.



I hiked through the Volsertal past Harles to Vijlen. Everything was still okay there, so I continued to the Boscafé and along the Epenerbaan to the lodge, which reopened on March 20th. It's

I'm going out early. It's cold and the weather is going crazy. We've just had typical March weather with rapidly alternating sun, rain, hail, snow, and night frost. Bright blue air, and within a few minutes, threateningly cloudy again. It gets light early, but next week it will be dark again at this

Today I went to the market as usual to buy fried fish, vegetables, bread, and fruit.



The way was a bit different, as all the roads in the Vaalsbroek valley are currently being newly asphalted.



But you can get everywhere well on foot. It was cloudy and cool, so there were hardly any problems with pollen

Komoot informed me after my walk that I have now been using Komoot for 500 weeks (consecutively). This means that I have gone for a walk at least once a week since I started using the Komoot app. In that time, I have covered 34,379 km in 3,082 tours. Even in the years before that, I went hiking every

Today is wonderfully sunny hiking weather. I'm hiking to Alt-Lemiers, then crossing the border and following the Schneebergweg with beautiful views of the Volsertal and Vaals. In Vaals, I do some weekend shopping at the supermarket. That was necessary because I had to stay home the last few days due