Today after shopping I went for a walk. I mean, a long walk. Well, just a few hours, first following the train tracks from Mörfelden-Walldorf to Frankfurt Aiport, then from there I went some roads and through the woods again and around the “Langener Waldsee”, where the German wannabe IronMen have to swim.
As always, I had my camera with me, and today I used only the 14-42mm kit lens, mostly wide. Here are some pictures and comments:
A bird house. Lots of these in the forests here.
The forests finally have some nice spring colours again.
Dumped bicycle
Same dumped bicycle, other side. The front wheel was laying some 10 or 20 meters away, and when I see things like these I always ask myself what might have happened here.
Chainsaw massacre…
Hmmm. No one ’round here seems to take care of things anymore.
You have to cross this and walk up to the road - no other way. At least that small stream is nice.
And it seems to be good for the trees and meadows here - this is the other side. Green again, finally.
This is close to the road. People dump everything, these guys around here just don’t care for nothing at all.
The road finally crosses the train track, if you head to Langen - opposite way from the airport.
The next bridge is way smaller. A couple was walking in the distance there.
I took the next turn right (direction to Mörfelden-Walldorf), and crossed the street to walk on the left side. There, I saw:
Karim Ahmad died here, aged 24. Searched Google and didn’t find anything. So whoever you were, young man, and whatever reason led to the end of your life: rest in peace.
The other side of the road, and more dumpsters. Do I really wanna live here? Do we want our daughter to grow up with people like these? Hmmm…
This is the road. Left of this, Ahmed died, right was the dump. No pedestrian walkway. A car coming my direction even honked. How could I dare to walk on his street!
Back to the woods again. This is much nicer, and not as noisy.
I searched for it, and I found it: the “Langener Waldsee”, surrounded by a double fence. Nothing is free around here, not even swimming.
Barbed wire, can you believe it? Why don’t they shoot people who wanna climb?
This is where you can sit and drink beer and swim. 20,000 people do this on warm days. This swimming beach isn’t very big, like you can see from the other side, so I guess people lay around here like sardines in a can. Not for me; thanks but no thanks.
This is the end of the swimming area, and of course here everything is forbidden. I wanna go back to Bavaria… and no, that scooter isn’t mine.
A sign which explains the visitor where he is. It is behind the area where people are supposed to be.
Here, swimming is strictly forbidden - I asked some people: “Why all these danger of life signs? What is so dangerous about this lake?”. The answer was: “They don’t want us to swim here, that’s all. And they send security and/or police to shoo people away”. I asked who owns this lake, but the people there couldn’t even tell me if it’s the city of Langen or the Sering company who are digging this lake since over 80 years.
The view from the other side. Can you image 20,000 people on that small beach - and no one around the rest of it? I won’t come here when all these boom boxes sound off…
Small marina to the left, swimming on the right, nothing here.
I had to climb over this wall of Serings’ sand to actually get out of that area again. Unbelievable. They let you walk in, only to block your way once you surround the whole lake.
This is where they’re digging. Langener Waldsee to the right, Egelsbacher See to the left. “See” is German for “lake”.
Lake Egelsbach is explained as well, and here they actually have a reason to block it. This is wild bird area. No people. No boom boxes. Sweet.
And it looks much nicer, too. If you turn around, you’ll see:
Another broken tree.
Colours are nice here, and it was getting a bit late, the sun was low, and I experienced my first lens flare since I was young
This is cool. One of the nicest spots around for sure.
And this is opposite of it, if you turn back to the way where you’re actually supposed (and allowed) to walk.
After crossing that same road again, you come past lake Mörfelden-Walldorf. Also with an entrance fee, and this one is open already.
This is close to the small road into Mörfelden-Walldorf.
This small road passes the A5 motorway from Frankfurt to Basel (Switzerland). Looking in the direction of Frankfurt here, with some “MTK” hills in the distance (= Main-Taunus-Kreis).
And finally, back in Mörfelden-Walldorf. Shopping mall to the left, gas station on the right, and these houses take the sun out of your face.
Some nice flowers and colours even here. This was the last photo I took before I went home.
And this one was taken from our veranda, before I started uploading photos and writing this.
Hope you enjoyed the little tour. Thanks for watching!