As already announced in our article “Another hike - this time to Saaleck Castle”, there should be another experience besides the hike to Saaleck Castle: the boat trip on a tourist steamer back to Bad Kösen.

Trees have always had an incredible attraction for us humans, not just because of their functions as climate and water regulators, as producers of oxygen, as recreational zone and escape areas for humans and animals.

Many paths lead to effective marketing goals, especially in very special times, such as the corona pandemic, creativity is once again particularly required in all the companies concerned. We are guests of GentleTent in Vienna.

Nearly everyone has heard of it before: The so-called witches dancing place is a high plateau in the Harz, about 454 m above sea level, which lies high above the Bode river valley opposite the Roßtrappe in Saxony-Anhalt.

The 48-hectare park on the edge of Weimar's old town is part of a kilometre-long green area along the Ilm river, ideal for a relaxing walk along the Ilm.

With great interest we walked along the graduation plant of Bad Kösen, admired the wooden construction technology and enjoyed the wonderful view of the Saale river until we came across a hiking sign which pointed to the local ghost beech tree not far from the graduation plant.

Almost directly at the beginning of Eckartsberga a small local museum called "Pferdestall" with its wonderfully prepared exhibits of old agricultural machinery can be found.

The Dutch windmill from the year 1831, standing on Sachsenberg at an altitude of about 275 m, is the last of three former mill specimens on the outskirts of the village, which were however destroyed by fires in 1839, 1848 and 1851 and were subsequently renewed several times.

Depending on the region, customs sometimes show strange development, including Easter. Is it at least a memorable endeavour to put the focus of the delicacies on eggs during Easter, regardless of whether the boiled and brightly painted chicken egg or the chocolate egg, regardless of whether with or without filling?

The GentleTent company from Vienna has been providing innovative and imaginative, sometimes surprising products for several years, so it's no wonder that even in times of the corona pandemic, an alternative idea comes from GentleTent.

The "green lung" of Vienna, Wienerwald, stretches not far from Austria's capital. The Wienerwald is a popular and well-known local recreation and excursion area not only for all immediate residents, but for people from all over Vienna, Lower Austria and of course for all guests.

The Citroën 2CV was once a very popular model of the automobile manufacturer Citroën with an air-cooled two-cylinder four-stroke boxer engine and front-wheel drive, which was popularly known as the duck and was often used by students as an inexpensive, mobile vehicle. A rather sporty version of this "duck" caught our eye recently in Hamburg and led to this article.

Aesthetically beautiful shapes, cheerful and colourful and an unmistakable sound of the low-performance engines from today's perspective - the early motorhomes from the 50s and 60s have their very special charm.

Once again on the way to the trade fair for outdoor, camping and caravaning, this time the Danish city of Herning should be the destination of our trip. So far we have never been so far north in terms of trade fair, we were excited to see what to expect there.

For us, too, there is always a new discussion about the acceptance and definition of graffiti that could not be more different. This also happened in Erfurt, where we did not only photographed these examples, but also sought a conversation with the artists.

Already in the early morning, bright blue sky, no cloud far and wide - wonderful weather for an extensive walk on the shore of Lake Baldeney, which we had circled some time ago already.

Completely different from the usual tradition that the Christmas markets almost close on Christmas Eve everywhere, we were amazed that at least a large number of small Christmas markets were still open during our visit to Erfurt.

It's that time again, the year 2019 is coming to an end and so Christmas is approaching considerably. We wanted to use the Sunday afternoon to look at the local Christmas markets.

Of course, we had come to Warsaw with great interest in the caravan fair and had immediately come to appreciate the excellent organization with regard to our registration, the parking situation and the helpfulness of the staff.

Like last year, we were again in Bern at the largest Swiss exhibition for camping and caravanning, which seeks to infect their visitors again with the contagious fever for mobile travel and camping.