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Just had a free day today. In the indoorskiing hall had some technical issures  to fix and therefore the hall stayed closed. I hope it will reopen tomorrow. No work means no cash and thats really bad for the next trip.

Our next trip will be to Austria. And this time, it’s not meant to be for walking, it’s a festival. Next Monday we’re flying to Klagenfurth and then head up to Tröpolach. One week of heavy metal and  skiing. Could be worse than that.

I created myself a little trailer from the footage I shot last year.

Steffi’s point of view:

Today is a bad day. It was planned to go working together in the skihall. But sometimes plans get smashed. Yesterday evening we got the news, that a water pipe has got broken and the skihall can’t get open the next day.

So I, Steffi, am working alone in the skihall. The worst thing: the weather isn’t such bad, that it couldn’t get used for walking.

Now we’re sitting at separate places with the longing look out of the window and the wish to get outside.

Fortunately it will not be long until I can go back home.

There I’ll go planning the stuff I need for our winter holidays in austria. A lot of warm clothes, socks, skiing helmet, trousers and everything you could need for a funny skiing holiday.

Of course also the camera isn’t allowed to stay at home. We’ll be there with three another persons and one of them didn’t learn skiing a lot. So there will be many funny pictures, I think.

And at least we also booked the travel because it’s a festival with a lot of music, bands and beer.

It’s  raining about one week now, so there are no really big  whishes toward going on a walk at the moment. Doesn’t really matter, because we have to do enough with planning, preperations and work. We decided to take in our first daytrip, we did in 2014, in our recently done total  kilometres, because it’s nearly or excactly the way we would start in 56 Days. Therefor we will start away right at the point we stopped 3 years ago.  So in total we did 19,2km now, hooray. I will set up an article for this date later on; EDIT: and here it is  DAY 1

Now it’s shopping time.

Yesterday was our first day in  Haltern. For the summer season we will work there  as a climbing trainer in a ropes course.

I hope it will be a good job, but from my point of view,  it will be like this.  We’re outside all day long, getting some fresh air, lots of sun, we’re doing again a sportive activity, could be worse than that. Being outside all day long includes  sunny days, but even  rainy days. Yesterday was one of the rainy ones. No sun during the whole day. Thank god there was nearly no one, who wants to climb in the woods. So we trained  ourself a little bit. Getting familiar with the parcours, trained some evacuations and  played some cards inside during the heavy rain.

At the end of the day, there was a little team-meeting . Doing some BBQ  and killed a couple of beer. Really a good ending for this day.

No  walking today, but another life-fullfilling activity;  working.

I’m working in an indoor skicenter as a skiteacher for about 4 month now and it is really enjoyable.  Good job, nice guests and tons of fun. Even the day was quite adorable. Sun, sun,sun and just a little more sun added to the nice skyline. Accross from the Tetraeda in Bottrop you have a nice overview over wide parts of  the Ruhrgebiet.

More or less it was a good day,  except some  things went out of control.  But everything changed when we came back home.  Greetings from the post, the deliveryman was there.

Some more bags for our trip; Some waterproof, some for compression. Additionally some new full body rainponchos including space for the  huge trekking-backpacks.  A new and in my opinion not enough configurated first aid kit. But the main reason for buying this package was the size and the weight. Nearly everything in a  bag in a size of a wallet. Nice to have.

Ah  yeah and a pair of extra travel towels. Light weight, quick drying, antibacterial material and of course…. in a bag.  I thinks they should be worth the money. I will pick the quality up in an extra article.

Today is a good day.

Started planning our trip through Europe about three years ago, nearly on the same date. Confused by finding the calendar I created in that period of time, I updated it to the actual date.

62 days remaining.

Gave me a really good feeling.

Most of our equipment is complete. Cameras, bags, clothing, cosmetics and all the other stuff which you could need but  are too heavy to take along with.

We own  two big trekking-backpacks. Should spend enough space for all our load, hopefully.

Really looking forward for 14th of may.

We just went  out  for a little walk.

Sun is shining and it’s  getting warm outside. A good day for preparing.

So we grabbed our backpack and some camera stuff and went outside.

Only walked about one hour. Nothing more to see, except some geese searching for a snack and the trees and bushes spreading out  some buds and blossoms.

After a while we decided to make a rest and take some refreshing drinks. Not a good idea when it is quite comfortable  in a good  society. Our rest took about 4 hours and loads of beer later we decided to return home.

Meanwhile the weather changed from warm and sunny to cold and rainy.  Thank god for my decision not to take a waterproof jacket with me. My wife told me…. Damn!

Started our journey today. The first stage of our first 1000km.  Steffi was working all day long up to  6pm. So we had little time to get the last ferry over the Rhein.

We made it, even  if it was a really hard march. 8,5km in 1,5h with a lot of load on the back isn’t the  best start for a journey like that. Our feet  would  give a sign tomorrow.

We’re  kinda done.

When we left the ferry, we had all the time  of the rest of the day. But the sun sets down and it got dark right away. So we searched for a little bar to take a drink. We’re in Germany so the search for a bar should not take long.  Found one,  ordered ourself a fresh beer and wondering why we met  far related familymembers of Steffi there.  Killed the beer and kept on walking .

We reached our first destination about 8pm , build up the tent and went to sleep.