#Eifel and Rhineland

I enjoy going exploring on weekends (mostly). Here is a collection of stories and photos I gather along the way. All posts are CC BY-NC-SA licensed unless otherwise stated. Feel free to share, remix, and adapt the content as long as you give appropriate credit and distribute your contributions under the same license.

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There are currently 30 articles tagged with 'Eifel and Rhineland':

May 2025

posted: May 26, 2025

Snaps from May 2025, straying around in Cologne, the Eifel, and the Ahr valley.

posted: March 2, 2025 updated: May 31, 2025

Snaps from March 2025. This year, it was time again for the carnival parade in Westum near Sinzig, which only takes place every 5 years. Some smaller trips, for instance to the ‘Bunte Kuh’, a viewpoint in the Ahr valley, rounded off the month.

posted: February 28, 2025 updated: March 8, 2025

Snaps from February 2025, including a visit to Arenfels Castle in Bad Hönningen, the Geisterzug in Cologne, and a rally in support of the Ukrainian people on the occasion of third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At Arenfels Castle, we saw an impressive video installation of the famous Japanese fairy tale Momotaro, accompanied by atmospheric illumination of the castle itself.

posted: June 16, 2024 updated: July 1, 2024

Snaps from June 2024.

posted: May 10, 2024 updated: November 22, 2024

Snaps from May 2024, including a visit to St. Maria im Kapitol, the Museum for East Asian Art, and a trip to Mainz.

posted: April 15, 2024 updated: June 22, 2024

Snaps from April 2024, including this year’s cherry blossom, a visit to the Cologne City Museum, which just reopened in March this year, a trip to Remagen and to Maria Laach.

posted: March 11, 2024 updated: April 14, 2024

Snaps from March 2024, including the first trip to Ahrweiler after the great flood in 2021.

posted: December 28, 2023 updated: January 12, 2024

Snaps from December 2023, including a visit to the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne, the Ruhrmuseum in Essen, and the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cologne.

posted: December 16, 2023 updated: December 18, 2023

Snaps from November 2023, mostly from the Eifel region.

posted: November 24, 2023 updated: December 27, 2023

Snaps from October 2023, including a trip to the Japanese Gardenꜛ and an ikebana exhibitionꜛ in Leverkusen, a visit to the Apollinaris Church in Remagen, a rugby match of the Cologne Crushersꜛ, a trip to Linz on the Rhine, and a visit to the Cologne Fair.

posted: August 31, 2023 updated: May 6, 2024

Snaps from August 2023, including shots of my new tea ceramics, a visit to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, and Schnütgen Museum (all in Cologne).

posted: April 16, 2023

Snaps from April 2023, including a visit to the fair in Cologne, and a trip to the Eifel (‘Bunte Kuh’), including snaps of this year’s cherry blossom in the Eifel region.

posted: March 22, 2023

Snaps from March 2023, including a visit to Maria Laach and Göttingen (Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society).

posted: November 30, 2022 updated: January 5, 2023

Snaps from November 2022, straying around in the Eifel.

posted: October 31, 2022 updated: January 2, 2023

Snaps from October 2022 (road trip to the Eifel).

posted: September 18, 2022 updated: January 1, 2022

Snaps from September 2022, including a trip to the Eifel and Berlin (Bernstein Conference at the TU Berlin) with visits to the Altes Museum and the Bode Museum.