Friday 7 April
Start from Bhf Dallgow-Döberitz to Falkesee, originally planned to total about 13 km. Organised by a member of the Facebook group Wandern in Berlin und Umgebung.
My route on MapMyWalk here. (When it started to drizzle and I was feeling really cold, I left the group when an opportunity arose).
It was a pleasant walk, although too much incessant schnickschnack – as in NON-STOP yacking – for my taste. Why ruin a walk in nature when you can cater to those needs anywhere else – a café, for example?
Saturday 8 April
With Berliner Wanderclub, a guided tour of Wasserturm Finow and Messingwerksgelände. Later, walk along Finowkanal back to Eberswalde. Just one comment: given the (what I perceived as) freezing cold, the guided tour was much too long (nearly 2,5 hours). Without all the stopping for no apparent reason, and a lot of schnickschnack, it could have been done in one hour). But that is just me.
Sunday
“Die Krumme Lanke in Rangsdorf”, with Wandersportverein Rotation Berlin from Bhf Rangsdorf via Krumme Lanke and Jühnsdorfer Heide to S Blankenfelde – found in the Berlin-Brandenburg Wanderplan.
A large group – I counted between 25 and 30, so at times, the speed-talking, which can be bad enough in groups of five to ten people, was infernal. What is it about nature that is like pushing a button, whereby most people start spouting words-words-words as if there is no tomorrow? And in many cases so loudly that the rest of us can’t hear the birds?
However, it was a lovely part of the world, the weather was finally great, and whenever I distanced myself from the noise machines, or people exceptionally kept their mouths shut, it was truly blissful, although not as long as we had been “promised”. All in all, I shall have to somehow make up for three relatively short walks in the last few days :-).
