Travelog post for: Barney

Hi Mummy,
we took a long walk today in an area around the river Wupper which belongs partly to the municpal area of Wuppertal and those of Solingen.

We started our trip on the Wuppertal part. First we took a path that goes underneath a railway bridge.



We had to walk uphill for a while. Soon we reached an old building, called "Kaltenbacher Kotten". It propably was a grindery or a smithy once. A pond is next to the building.





We reached an area than which belongs to the largest arboretum in Germany. Since the late 1950 years foreign trees are planted here. There are special areas with trees from Asia, North America, South America and also Africa. The arboretum was founded as a forestry sience project.















We crossed the river Wupper here and reached the Solingen area.



We had to take while we walked through the forrests: Everywhere it was "raining" acorns, beechnuts and chestnuts.



On our way back to the car we had to walk underneath a large bridge, underneath a highway.





After more than three hours walking I was really tired, looking foreward to spend the evening on the sofa, doing nothing.

Bye
Barney