Autumn, I have hereby embraced you.

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Over the last couple of months, right after the time I went on my solo hike in late Summer, I had the motivation to rediscover specific Nature areas around Berlin. My heart was breaking, as I kept missing out on several chances to do this and to take proper pictures, but thankfully over the last 2-3 weekends I managed to do what I had wanted to do.

I also had another aim, other than simply rediscovering the areas around. I wanted to really track my hikes / bike tours, in order to remember in the future which areas I liked and why.
The reason for that is that I keep finding myself in situations where I am spontaneously at a specific place, and I start remembering that I had been there before, but get lost in rebuilding a proper memory. Or, I remember a beautiful place, I crave to see it again, and I have no idea where it was anymore.

Now I want to change that – and this is me trying to change that. :) Here is to finding beautiful places and noting them down for future references. :D

I’ll start off by not only uploading photos taken on my hikes, but also by sharing the specific areas on the map.

The last few weekends I had been to:
Grünau (my favorite place of all for some reason, probably because I just have such an endless amount of memories there),
the forest area between the Große Krampe and Seddinsee waters,
the Nature Reserve Löcknitz,
and Grunewald.

The trips are not shared chronologically.
I simply shared them the way it felt right to me.

1. Grünau (31.10.2020)

This is roughly the way we walked (marked in yellow), starting at the station S Grünau, walking into the forest to the East, then towards the North towards the Dahme river, and then back.

It was a very calming and beautiful walk that day. It was cloudy and humid, but not yet very cold. The forest was calm, there were little people… I could enjoy taking my time photographing the details that fascinate me. <3

No, the leaves were not indeed shining in that color, but I sure like to dream…
I was lucky to walk with my cousin who had a lot of patience with my photo craze, allowing me to keep taking photos of her as well.
Tight, tight, tight, we stick together

It was one of the very few times in my life to see this fog over the water, which mesmerized me. I had to remember days where I came to this lake, to this spot, meditating, thinking, writing my thoughts away, enjoying a very rare smoke, crying my heart out, praying for the water and the trees around to take all my pains away, at my lowest times. And looking back I can feel the healing that was occurring, even though it was almost invisible at that time. As I said before… I love this place and something very deep and fundamental connects me to it.

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2. Between Große Krampe and Seddinsee (14.11.2020 + 15.11.2020)

We cycled all the way from the station S Köpenick down to Müggelheim, and then started walking to the South, through the trees, till we overlooked Große Krampe. As it started getting dark, we had to cycle back, along the Gosener Landstraße, through Gosen, and then up to Erkner, where the train was awaiting us. :)
A closeup over the area we walked and cycled through. This is a rough estimate, drawn in from memory, as I wasn’t recording our path.

Sadly, that day I made no photos at all, but I was in such awe by the beauty around us, that I had to come back a couple of days later. And I sure let myself go taking photos, which more felt like a dream…

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3. Löcknitztal Nature Reserve (08.11.2020)

We had to take the car to reach this area, parking at Klein Wall, and exploring the rest by foot.

This place was also really beautiful. It takes about 40 minutes to get there by car, if you start your trip from the East of Berlin. Unfortunately, it’s very hard to get there by anything other than the car, but fair enough… it was worth the ride and felt like a little, very refreshing break from the density and loudness of Berlin. Add to that the extremely natural setting by the water – a real beauty worth exploring more than once. Add to that: it was so sunny!

I was told this is a Pfifferling… I still need to get into the world of mushrooms.
I love the feeling of moss on the hand :) This moss made the tree bark so soft that all you had to do was grab it softly with your hand and it would fall of with the tree bark…

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4. Grunewald (01.11.2020)

Last but not least, I’d also like to include Grunewald to this collection, despite it being only three photos that I’d like to share. I always have such mixed feelings about Grunewald, despite it also being so beautiful. Maybe I don’t like that it’s incredibly hard to find solitude there. It’s always so full of people… I think you could say if you live in Berlin, you must have been to Grunewald at least once. But well… I still can’t deny when there is beauty.

A rough estimation of how we walked that day. Again: I had not recorded our path, so this is just a guess from memory.
These little mushrooms were growing between the moss on trees!


I finally want to emphasize (mainly for my future self reading this and remembering the state I was in at that time) how much I appreciate the possibilities I have here, how much I value the freedom of the possibility to explore these natural places, to move freely, to sit in silence, to sit and read, to walk, to swim, to cycle, to wander, to wonder, to listen and to breathe… it is a freedom I’d wish for everyone to have. It is a freedom that heals.

With a lot of excitement, I can say: to be continued!
Winter is coming…

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