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A walk in the forest….
And… we are back! Summer has come to Berlin! I have heard that there is a season known as spring? We completely skipped that puppy and went straight on to summer… and it is walking season again! Given that I … Continue reading
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A little walk to visit a friend.
It has been quite a weekend. Cold. Driving snow. -10C with the windchill. So… I didn’t walk until today, because I am not insane. And I don’t do that indoor walking thing. But today we hit thaw… which was nice. … Continue reading
Conquering Berlin…
Feeling a little out of control of my life, and feeling the need to stamp my foot on something, I have decided to conquer Berlin. I need to reduce it. Own it. Make it my bitch. 🙂 Almost five years … Continue reading
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Insel Eiswerder
Twas a long’un today! Or… as far as I am concerned it was. In fact, it was my second longest walk to date! And made wearing my new walking outfit… a Valentines day prezzie from my parents. They are being … Continue reading
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Tagged berlin, factories, highway robbery, insel eiswerder, karstadt, log, military history, new duds, spandau, walking, walks, war, winter, zitadelle
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Back to the Wald
So today a friend and I walked through the Spandauer Forst… Or the Spandau forest. (Yes. Sometimes, German is that easy… a whole 23% of the time.) Living in the forest are…deer, foxes, pole cats and wild boars… I have … Continue reading
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Slogging…
Not blogged in a few days… But I did some walking. 🙂 The first was a 5 km jaunt around my part of town… Nothing particularly war’y… but I did pass a bit of fab 1920’s (1927 to be precise) … Continue reading
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Tagged berlin, crocs, crocskin, dancing, ddr, forest, kino international, ledderhose disease, log, Plantar fibromatosis, rewards, snow, spandau, wwii
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Heerstrasse
Yes. I live in a town with a bit of war in its past. In fact… there have been a few people to wander through Spandau and get frisky. Once upon a time, there were Slavic people here. Then the … Continue reading
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Plus Degrees!
Finally! The temperature has come above 0 and I was out today. Did I ever feel my week off! OY! Now the sidewalks were still mucky- Berliners seem constantly surprised by this phenomena known as snow- but it felt GOOD! … Continue reading
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Yesterday’s walk…
Decided to go clear my head before training. Much better out on the street! Roads were cleared! Made a huge difference. In terms of war, I walked to the Zitadelle, which is a renaissance fortress in town. It is amazing, … Continue reading
Yesterday’s walk log…
Yesterday I walked in the snow up to the HUGE graveyard a few kms away. Sadly, when I did an orientation check, I accidentally turned off the run tracker- so it was really a 7.5 km walk. But what … Continue reading
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Tagged austro-prussian war, danish-prussian war, franco-prussian war, graveyard, injured, log, spandau, walk, walking, war
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