Home trips: Apples and hazelnuts at the Jugendhof Rheinland

Good evening, my dear readers!~


Today I took a walk outside because the weather finally became sunny and warm after a long period of rain. This time I decided to go another route hardly somebody knows... Well, I'll just take you with me on the way~

Let's start here - just a random street of my village ^___^

Here we start to go up a way hardly somebody knows... Only dog owners, I guess, because I really met somebody with a dog going for a walk there (!)

Here we arrive at a little space. Years before there has been a bench, but since the way isn't frequented regulary anymore it has disappeared... 

A view on the village - the huge building complex are old industry halls where a rim producing company still actively is working.

Look at the sunbeams~

 

We now arrive at a small viewing platform. Nobody is visiting it anymore, grass, moss and weed is growing between the stones... The next photo shows the view on Bonn - yes, the branches cover half of it, that's true...

Welcome at another wine hill! But this one isn't cultivated, these vines are growing wildly. What a pity, we could produce lots of good wine of them...

Ahead we now can see the so called "Jugendhof Rheinland". This was a youth hostel twenty years ago, but because no school class would do class trips to Königswinter anymore it isn't used for a couple of years... It's still looking quite good, but of course the time doesn't stop and the surroundings and buildings decay...

Whoo, dark clouds... But luckily it hasn't started raining, it even was sunny ^___^
Strange autumn weather, as always here!

Down there we can see an orchard with many apple trees and a huge hazelnut shrub. My way will lead me down there later...

But at first some impressions of the slowly expiring hostel...

Somehow I'm always fascinated by abandoned places... I really would like to take some pictures of myself in such surroundings~

As you can see, here must have been civilization...

Good day, Mr. Helix pumacis! ^___^

This lantern looks like in Narnia... Only the snow is missing

I collected some apples and hazelnuts on the orchard because they don't belong to somebody anymore since the hostel isn't frequented. Now I really have brought home too many apples, I can't see them anymore xD

...but they're indeed delicious ^___^

This was a car way once...

We now reach a motorway and need to go along there for a while until we will be able to return back into the village. Of course it's not that beautiful, but I'll show you though:

This is the rim producer again

A view back...

We now reach the area of the rim producing company. It's not forbidden to enter and it's the shortest way to just go through. The company was much bigger years ago, but now they have extremely cut the jobs and just a quarter of the production halls is still active.
Again an expiring place I would love to examine more closely one day~

An old parking place...

Oh wow, look at this tree! How can a plant grow at such an inhospitable place? That's why I adore plants: They're survival artists, I wish I also would be able for such a masterpiece of nature's creation~

An old train terminal... But another platform is still active as the train station of Königswinter

The underpass - this time exceptionally cleaned from the graffitis!

As you can see, Germany is also not the non plus ultra country... We also don't have enough money to keep every place clean and in use, we also loose many ressources by not caring about the environment. If I would have enough money I would start a cleaning project in some of these places, for example reclamation of metal and steel by melting - we don't need more and more new ressources from mother earth, we still have enough of them already gained, we just would need to recycle them!
A green message at the end of the blog~


Okay, now I got back home through the village. That's not that interesting and I just took a few random photos...

For example a bus stop xD

Or a canalization...

The tram station - the paintings at the walls were created by A level students of the gymnasium nearby once, but today many idiots have oversprayed the beautiful artwork with graffitis, of course...

And ahead we can see the entrance for the sports field called "Peter-Breuer-Stadion".

Okay, a few more metres more to go, but that's not interesting anymore. I returned successfully without getting wet and with lots of fruits and nuts ^___^



I hope you enjoyed! See you next time ^___^

Junsui