Another day of the Berlin Travel Festival is coming to an end, which was again peppered with lectures on a wide range of travel topics. Was it once a travel talk to the wines from Georgia ....

Even the first tour shows the concept deviating from conventional trade fairs more than clearly. For example, environmental protection and sustainability play at least as important a role as "fair travel" in order to use a familiar term.

As a real alternative to the traditional travel fairs, the Berlin Travel Festival and its motto "Travel Different" goes into the second round of its existence, from 8.-10. March 2019 in the Arena Berlin, bringing together again the adventurers, discoverers and brands of today.

Once again in Trier, the sun lured us for a walk along the Mosel, where we came across the ancient Moselkran, which is written in the old way spelling with “h” and is locally called Alte Krahnen.

The view from the window shows once more gray, rainy sky in the west of Germany, no wonder, there is the desire for permanent sun and bathing beach again.

Once again, we spend a few days in Vienna, so we decided for a short bike ride into the city of Vienna, first from Hütteldorf down to the Vienna River, then along the river bed past the Schönbrunn Palace into the city center.

Blossoming high pastures in the Jablanica - in addition to the flowers and butterflies in the wet area - we waited long time for the mountain idyll on the border with Albania, where we had already done several extensive hikes.

We had continued our walk through the Pindos Mountains and had risen up to an inn, which also offers guest beds for hikers in Astraka. Up until here you can get by using serpentine roads by car.

Several times we have been in the National Park in the Pindos Mountains, on the way to explore the established hiking trails introduced and signposted by the National Park management, not at least to admire the countless stone bridges.

Several times we were on the way in the Galicica National Park on Lake Ohrid, during the various walks various had nice encounters and enjoyed the view from about 1800 meters above sea level on the beautiful lake. Already we look forward to further excursions.

If you are traveling from Thessaloniki towards Kavala, have passed the well-known Lion Monument of Amphipolis, on the coastal road far before Kavala you will reach a fork, which leads to the hot springs.

Every year you can inform yourself comprehensively and extensively about an official partner country at abf Reisen & Urlaub. This time explorer long distance Travelers presents Australia as abf partner country 2019 on a special area of more than 1.000 sqm!

Already at the start, the "run" on the CMT Stuttgart is clearly noticeable, long traffic jams, which extend far to the A8 and that despite the lack of rush hour traffic on early Saturday morning.

Challenges are appealing - this is how the inclined visitor to CMT Stuttgart may initially think when he looks at the outdoor exhibitions of some tent manufacturers, who present themselves in the outdoor area despite the weather conditions with snow and rain.

For almost two millennia, the route from the center of Trier to the left bank of the Moselle only led over the ancient Roman bridge, whose first construction was still made of wood and was built in the years 18 and 17 BC.

An evening walk had led us despite late hour up to the pond at Abtsküche, where we met numerous water birds, which extensively dealt with cleaning of their plumage.

Once again, the already obligatory stop and go on the A1 near Bremen had caused us to use the highway to Wildeshausen in order to avoid staying on the highway on a large scale.

Trees are air purifiers, humidifiers, noise protection, shade dispensers, water storage, CO2 consumers and oxygen producers - in short, good for the climate and human health in every city. Plane trees also shape the cityscape of Bremen and serve the local recreation.

Autumnally wet, cold weather with only occasionally tearing cloud cover actually did not lure us to take a walk outside, but we definitely wanted some movement. The view of the sky indicated that we should try going to head westward.

After our briefing on setting up a camper stop in Istanbul, the shortest route for going to Antalya, which we were recommended to use, was a route passing the relatively new Osman Gazi bridge.