This walk, entitled U 7 “Endstation”, Rundwanderung am Stadtrand, was organised by Joachim Wenzel and approximately 12 km – actually a little more, I think – here is the link to the route on mapmywalk. (I forgot to start recording right at the beginning, and also twice after having paused recording, so the route probably looks a bit weird, but it went from and back to U-Bahnhof Rudow). Back in Rudow, we finished with a meal in Restaurant Zum Alten Krug. Highly recommended, good food and very friendly staff.
I had left Max (my dog, for those who don’t know 🙂 to have fun with Frank and some canine friends. Much as I had hoped to bring Max along on the walks with Berliner Wanderclub, it is too stressful for him, and therefore for me and everybody else. He wants to be in front all the time, but also make sure that everybody is still there, and on the leash, that does not work. If he could run off-leash all the time, it would probably be lots of fun for him to keep running around in those loops, but that is unfortunately not allowed in most places in Berlin and surroundings. I don’t know if those instincts are so deep within him that it would not be worth the effort to try to teach him to walk with a largish group of people. I will talk to Frank, and also to Astrid, our current trainer, about that. But for now, Frank’s Hundeausführservice is a wonderful alternative, which also lets me take Mr Canon along instead.
PS: I have to say this: Whenever I mention Berliner Wanderclub to friends and acquaintances of all ages, they later make the comment that nobody is going to take an organisation seriously that does not have a proper, navigable and up-to-date website, or a Facebook page, preferably both. No organisation will attract new members as long as it relies on word-of-mouth, scraps of paper, and phone calls in order to communicate for example changes in the programme and cancellation of walks. I tend to agree.