“Guten Morgen” rang out from one of the three older ladies who passed me by on an early morning walk on the Philosopher's Way. I had just begun the walk up the steep incline.
In 1540, an expedition under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado on a quest to find the Seven Cities of Cibola, passed through this region naming it "El Desierto Pintado" - The Painted Desert. It's a land of petrified forests, dinosaurs fossils ...
Suddenly, it's quiet once again. The only sounds are the crackling of fallen leaves on the pavement. There is a light fog in the air, with the trees ablaze with gold, red and yellow.
What started as a quiet Sunday morning walk ...
I always had the impression of northern Germany as too industrialized, lacking an Old World charm I had come to expect in Germany. My first trip to Bad Neuenahr changed that.