• hiking rothaarsteig sauerland
    Germany

    Winter hiking in Sauerland

    While I’m busy writing our anual end-of-the-year lists (which I won’t publish until next week) I realize there is actually quite a lot of trips that I have not yet written about this year. I did a couple of city trips to Naples, London and Lisbon, we went hiking on La Palma and made our first real biking vacation in our own country. Most of our blogs are about our faraway trips and/or trips that we make specifically for we12travel. In the perfect world, I would spend all my time blogging, but in reality I’m stuck in an office eight hours a day and blogging has to be done in…

  • Germany

    Visiting the Moselle in the fall – Germany at its best!

    Last weekend I spent in the Moselle area in Germany, a short three hour drive from Arnhem where I live. The Moselle is the area where they make the best Rieslings, where they have the steepest vineyard in Europe and where there are countless hiking opportunities. They have delicious food, challenging Klettersteigs and über friendly locals. But the most impressive was the coloring of the leaves. This is why you should be in the Moselle in the fall!   The Moselle in the fall Where it did not really want to get going in the Netherlands last weekend, it was already coloring well down in the Moselle region. When I…

  • Germany

    Losing your heart to the Harz – a movie

    It already seems ages ago … and yet it was just a couple of weeks. When describing our trip to Germany’s Harz region to a fellow travel blogger shortly after, the first thing I mentioned is “you know what, our car broke down”. By now, we already forgot the car broke down and we had to stay longer than planned (not one minute too long though!). When posting my first picture on Facebook, my boss left a comment: “lose your Herz (heart) to the Harz” … which is exactly what we did. How come? Here’s why:   – The silence … On the trails that we hiked, there were almost no other people. Only when…