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Welcome to my Website!

Hello and welcome to my page 🙂

I’m Katrin and I used to travel a lot in my 30ies.
Currently (2026), I’m working on including all my old travel blogs to keep all these good memories alive.

I’m also adding some new things, e.g. DIY recipes and content about my current photography and sports activities.
So you’ll find a pretty colourful mixture here 🙂
And maybe there’s something interesting in there for you as well.

Enjoy!
And please let me know if you find any errors or inconsistencies in the contact form. Thanks!

28. April 2026

Excursion to the Zeche Zollverein in Essen

Today, I visited the Zeche Zollverein in Essen which was a coal mine from the 19th century until 1986. These days, it’s an open air museum and a place for events and exhibitions. And an excellent place to shoot pictures of industrial motives.

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21. April 2018

Doing it my way: From Dortmund to Essen

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Although it was pretty warm, I slept well and was awake around 6 AM or even earlier. I got up a little later and was on the road around 8 AM which was a good start, keeping the temperatures of yesterday in mind.

But again, as usual in big cities, it took a while before I found the route I wanted to follow today: the Emscher Weg.

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20. April 2018

Oh what a day: from Muenster to Dortmund

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The day’s events started again with a cat, this one was named Max.

I was sitting outside on the door mat and putting my shoes on, leaving the door ajar because I wasn’t a 100% certain that I had already brought all my stuff outside to put it on my bike.

And then Max the cat came along. He and his friend Zora are not supposed to be in the house while nobody is at home, so I closed the door a bit, thought for a bit and when Max started to step inside, I closed the door shut. I went to the garage and even before I opened the door, I realized that my drinking bottles were still inside the house….damn….

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19. April 2018

Muenster in pictures

18. April 2018

Perfect cycling day: Freckenhorst (Warendorf) to Muenster

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Once again, I started in beautiful sunshine. I cycled from Freckenhorst to Warendorf on the 100 Schloesser (=castles)-Route which is about 8k long but sooooooooooo much nicer than cycling along the busy main road.

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17. April 2018

Tough start but absolutely worth it: Bielefeld to Warendorf

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After a rather rough start into the day, first some “authority” issues with the cat during breakfast, then an incredible confusing way out of Bielefeld and an almost real mountain (on top is a restaurant, named “Auf’m Berg” (=on the mountain) and the road’s name was Bergstrasse (=mountain road)), the hardest part of the day was already over shortly after 9 AM.

And then the beautiful part began.

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16. April 2018