Trips
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Gera Zoo
Actually we wanted to go to the wildcat village in Hütscheroda on our one year wedding day… but we soon found out that the train connections to Eisenach and the enclosure are quite complicated and we would not have been able to spend enough time there on the planned day. So we quickly thought about alternatives. Zoos are always a good idea, but we have been to Leipzig and Erfurt the last few years… so we decided for a completely different zoo, which reminds more of an animal enclosure: The zoo Gera! We took the train to Gera-Süd and from there it was not far to the zoo. Nevertheless we…
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Our little Whitsun-Hike to Belvedere
On June 1st we wanted to take a little hike thanks to the nice weather. Therefore, we have again prepared Bentos with onigiris (rice balls filled with chicken, wasabi and cheese), red bell peppers, cucumbers, and octopus sausages. The hardest part of the way was to climb up to Belvedere Palace at the beginning. We left shortly before 11 o’clock and arrived exactly at 12. Here, we looked for a nice bench in the park behind the castle and ate our Bentos. After lunch, we went back along a dirt road leading towards “Taubacher Mühle”. Shortly before arriving at the village we turned left towards the bike path that we…
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Bicycle tour: Feininger-Radweg
On May 21st (also Father’s Day), we decided to go on a bike tour. This day was particularly worth going outside because both the days before and the weather forecast afterward showed that it would otherwise only be raining or cloudy. We chose the Feininger cycle path, which is described below. We knew the beginning of the route to Mellingen, as Nathalie uses to go running there quite often and sometimes accompanied her on my bike. The way behind Oettern was a little more confusing. Here, we slightly lost our way. When we finally found our way back to the Feininger bike path behind Buchfart, the most difficult part of…
