Angelika & Guido

A short trip from Baden to Swabia... time to earn that cake 🍰.



By the way, Schiller's escape in 1782...



In September 1782, Friedrich Schiller secretly fled Stuttgart for Mannheim because Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg threatened him with imprisonment and a strict ban on writing due to his successful play

Overnight, after a long absence, Mother Holle (Frau Holle) finally made an appearance in the Kraichgau region. The landscape and the town were lightly dusted with snow ❄️☃️, but unfortunately, she left us again early this morning. Enough, however, to get me moving and embark on the first walk of the

First day of the New Year and last day of vacation. My wife retreated to her "home office" to read 📕, while my husband laced up his hiking boots 🥾 one last time. His love 😘 had planned a lovely route for him on Komoot from their hotel in Herzogau, taking in chapels and wayside crosses. This saved

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Following the old smugglers' trail, we came to the "Penny Rock," where a small cave is surrounded by a broken stone. The two boulders have been connected by a trail warden with a stainless steel band and a hinge, creating a movable rock door. Passersby can place lucky pennies/cents (or even euros

For our New Year's Eve end-of-year hike, we headed to Althütte, a small district of Waldmünchen at an altitude of about 800 meters, in crisp, cold temperatures and the onset of snowfall. As the name suggests, the village and the surrounding area are characterized by their former glassmaking industry

Today we hiked from the Rosshof campsite up through the deep snow-covered forest to the Kathlfelsen rock formation at 751 meters above sea level. Up to the rock, there was only one set of footprints on the freshly snow-covered path. We think an early riser had been out for the sunrise. It snowed during

Today, on a sunny but consistently frosty day, a short but very challenging hike for me – the Geiganter Zwirenzlsteig – was on the agenda. While the elevation gain didn't look too difficult, the trail led directly up a steep forest path to the relatively small summit of the Zwirenzl in the Bavarian Forest

The sun was glorious, accompanying us around the lake, where we also stopped for our snack break.



There were information boards about many, many fish... which we read almost all of.



We wanted to cross to the other side of the lake via the "floating footbridge." Unfortunately, it's closed in winter 😏 so

Furth im Wald is called the "Dragon City" because the oldest German folk play, the "Drachenstich" (Dragon's Sting), has been performed there for over 400 years. It's a legend about Saint George's battle with a dragon. This tradition has shaped the city and led to many other dragon-themed attractions

Today's itinerary included a cross-border hike between Germany and the Czech Republic. We started in Perlhütte, a small village belonging to Waldmünchen in the Cham district. The name derives from historical glass bead workshops. The history of glassblowing in the Upper Palatinate dates back to the 14th