Hiking and visiting Schloss Burg

^{Castle Burg / Schloss Burg}
It's a rare moment when we both don't have to work at the weekends. If the weather is sunny too, we are lucky. My wife found 3 tours and I decided by the photos of the tours and how much street is involved which one we would go to. We didn't park our car at the recommended location directly at the castle because we would have to pay. We decided to park a little bit away which didn't cost anything but a few hundred meters to walk. This is the complete tour.

➡️ 12,1 km ↗️ 350 m ↘️ 400 m ⏳ 3:11

We started at the castle. My wife took some nice photos but we could not see everything. Some parts were closed and elsewhere was under construction and restoration.
This was the first photo after we came out of the parking lot.

These photos are taken all around the castle. We could use the cable railway but we wanted to hike downhill. We later saw how much we had to walk up and down. Our legs were really tired at the end. The first walk was steep down and we laughed because we knew already that we would come back this way up again.

<sup>cable railway

house on the way down</sup>
When we got there we had to go a little bit on the street before we could sideways between the houses and enter the forest. Here are some photos from there and the little river there. Our tour followed sideways belong the Wupper which passes also through Wuppertal where the suspension railway runs above the river. You see the Müngsten Bridge with it later in the photos.
(Added the wiki links for more info)

Eating nettle buds and the leaves. Something that I always enjoy since I found out how healthy it is.

We both were wearing our barefoot shoes and I tried something new. I've read a book about the ball of foot walking and how it is more natural to walk like this. You do it anyways when you walk stairs, dance, walk sideways, or walk barefoot. It was quite an experience to walk 12 km like this and I had to remember often to do so and not switch to my usual walking habits.

Finally, we had to hike up the hill again where we had started. At the top, we took a break in a nearby pub and drank a cool alcohol-free beer. We could sit outside and enjoy the end of the hike.

All photos were made by my wife and she allowed me to use them 😅