A little (German) book tip for spring! The book “Green Travelling – Einfach nachhaltig reisen” was published by the oekom Verlag in 2021, but has lost little of its topicality. Anyone looking for climate-friendly inspiration for travel destinations, packing lists and means of transport this year will find great ideas, tips and travel anecdotes in…
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Student project: A Slow Travel Map for Constance
For the winter semester 2023/2024, I was appointed as a guest lecturer at the University of Constance. As part of the “Schlüsselqualifikation N“, four seminar days were available over two weekends to introduce the topic of “sustainable travel” to participants from various courses of study. In the seminar, the students learnt about the green travel…
Slow Travel – Unterwegs in Schleswig-Holstein. A German book by Elke Weiler
On the German book market, there are hardly any books that deal with the topic of Slow Travel. I was all the more curious when I discovered the newly published travel guide by author Elke Weiler in the spring of 2023. Published by Ellert & Richter Verlag in Hamburg, the book highlights selected places in…
Bodensee mit Kindern. A book by Annette Sievers
Slow Travel meaning sustainable and slowed-down travel works with kids, too. But to do so you don’t need to travel far: the biggest lake of Germany, Lake Konstanz, is an ideal holiday destination that has especially for families much to offer. Who travels along the so-called “Swabian sea” crosses the neighboring countries Austria and Switzerland….
From Europe to the Caribbean by catamaran. A cruise
To sail once the Atlantic – from the Southern end of Europe to the Caribbean! This sounds like a wild dream that many people have in their minds but exceedingly few act the thought out in reality. The two student colleagues Niko and Nicklas actually dared it. The three-monthly sailing cruise was just a small…
Seven days Transalp. From Stuttgart to Lake Como by bicycle
“Not the pace but your personal focus directs your life.” This is the travel guiding credo of Sandy Steven Weckemann, nickname Sandweck. For him, who was born in Stuttgart, Germany, it is not interesting to see as many things possible but to undergo a inner journey, too. Nowadays it is easy to travel anywhere. But…
Alpaca hiking in the Bergisches Land region
The Bergisches Land region offers verdant green hills, forested mountainsides, plenty of dams and glistening streams and rivers. The area, which is close to the cities Cologne, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal and Remscheid invites you to diverse nature experiences. A very special experience for the whole family is hiking with the curious but shy alpacas. Alpaca hikes…
The Green Belt – Experience German history by foot
32 years ago, on 09 November 1989, the German domestic border between FRG and GDR was lifted (called BRD and DDR in German). After around 40 years, the Germans were re-united and the wall was removed from the so-called death zone. Over the past decades, the former border became a tourist attraction in Berlin. Now…
Cave expeditions. Only for adventurers?
Jakub Kaleta has an unusual hobby. Since about five years, he is exploring caves on his own. These are short day trips, which take him out of his daily life into an alien world. It is a thrill and nature experience at once – a real adventure. He doesn’t need lots of technical equipment: usually…
Donkey hiking. Individual travel or guided day trip
„Donkeys, it seems, are an indispensable asset to the would-be slow traveller“, writes Nicky Gardner in the Slow Travel Manifesto.[1] Donkeys as transportation unite the longing for speed of the 19th century and the desire for slowing down of the 21st century. Earlier adventurers preferred fast donkeys over camels to cross deserts. Today, donkeys are…