With my non-existent orientation skills, I am always grateful when somebody else can be bothered to organise a walk – i.e. pick the what, where, and when, and guide us on our merry way without me having to constantly trying to make sense of either google maps or komoot.

I found this event in the Facebook group Wandern in Berlin und Umgebung, the route on Komoot here.

Weatherwise, the day started positively enough. Already in the early morning, this was the view from my balcony:

Six of us set off from SBhf Wuhlheide in relative sunshine and almost springlike temperatures (except it was quite windy). About half-way through the walk, the rain started and it was decided to cut the walk slightly short. But it was a very nice walk nonetheless and nice to see some new faces too.

Unfortunately, partly due to laziness and later also due to the rain, I did not get around to taking any photos.

Now, I can only write the following because this is my own website, with comments disabled. On social media, I am sure it would cause a shitstorm, but it is something I have always thought, never said aloud, and now I am writing it down: It is always nice when there are a couple of men participating, and not, as is too often the case, only women. It limits the amount of schnickschnack and speedtalking and makes for a more enjoyable walk – or any other event, for that matter.

The route on MapMyWalk here (from the moment when I finally remembered to start recording).

For me the total distance walked on this day: 12,5 km.