This sums up how I felt 40K into a Kennedy March in the Netherlands. Had worn shitty socks so my feet had been on fire for 20K every step was agony I could feel every bump and leaf on the ground. I felt like I had been walking for a week already. Then my dad clapped me on my back went. "Come on son, we're halfway there." He took my fucking soul with that sentence.
I just burst out laughing because that's exactly what my Norwegian partner said once we finished hiking up the mountain to see the mountain village. I could cry.
I was a US soldier stationed in Garmisch Germany and I would hike up the mountains on my off days. One day I took a friend who was new to the base. We got about half way up and he crapped out. As he was sitting on the side of the trail trying to recover an elderly German women passed us and asked him his age. He said 22. She laughed and said she was 78 and kept on laughing until she was out of sight 🤣
it is the poor germans who need those bottles. i was in the situation when i was glad to find some when i was bankrupt and sick. now i am still not rich but i leave bottles for others to take them. i don't leave them in the forrest but in parks or places where the homeless meet or stops of public traffic. i do not put them into trash because why do we want people to grab into the trash for what they need so desperately. or some old women are even too small to get the bottle then.
This year, there was an incident where an 82-year-old German man, who went missing while taking a stroll in Takayama, Gifu, Japan, was found far away in Tokyo. We Japanese were puzzled as to how this could have happened, but after watching this video, the mystery was solved.
My grandma had dementia and was still living at home when it came on. She went shopping and started walking back to her apartment, then walked by and kept walking for over kilometers until she ended up downtown.
My techer here in germany close to 70 and wood working teacher is wild. He drove with the bike through half of germany to his family and that was nothing for him he even walks still marathons :0
@@Synchronicety it's not dark enough? Have you been to the Harz Mountains in winter? Or places like Thale's "Witch mountain?" We even have a large forest region literally called "Dark Forest"? 👀🧐🤔🤔
It's so hilarious hearing you guys trying to one up each other! 😂😂❤ (from an Australian who lived in Vienna for 2 years and Munich 2 years -- not lived 'with' a German, but alongside them (and Austrians!)
Warning in Austria: If a trail says “2h” it means that it’s at least 4h to get back again. They don’t tell you distance. They tell you an approximate time at an undefined tempo for going to a point. Now that point might be a little hut 6km up on a mountain. So it’s really vital to remember that the only way down is back the same way, so ❗️double the time❗️ Also bring water and warm clothes and a rain jacket. I’ve started walks in +10C and ☀️ in the valley, to peak at -5C and ❄️ and an arctic wind 💨 from some icy hell. Be prepared.
Depends, some overestimate and estimate more time and a slow pace, and some not, it really depends. That said in hiking it cant harm to plan a bit timespan that you in worst case can sit chill in a schutzhaus
😂 when we were living in Germany, I became friends with the mother of one of our daughter’s Kindergarten classmates. She only spoke Russian and German. I only spoke English and was working on learning German. One day, after noticing that I was going for a walk after dropping our daughter ad Kindergarten, she asked if I wanted to walk with her. I said, “ja,” and thus began my German language training in earnest. After walking 5 days a week for several weeks, my German was getting better. We were having some conversations. She told me about the other women in the village where we lived who said they wanted to go walking with her but then could not keep up and would complain about the length of the walk…she then said, “but you, Kathy, you are like a tractor!”😂 We walked for an hour, every week day, through the woods, up and down hills, it was heaven!…but not for everyone. She taught me how to speak German along the way.😃❤️
It's such a cool story! I remember me and friend used to go for long walks a couple years ago almost everyday. But we live in a city so we mostly walked around sidewalks or parks!
In Hamburg, some friends I was drinking with one night asked me to go along with them to a club. They said it was nearby. Just a short walk. Pointed like it was around the corner. I was very drunk. I wondered why we never stopped walking. I thought my friends were taking me somewhere to harvest my organs.
Cmon. Obviously you walked between Sternschanze and Reeperbahn. It´s a short walk of around 2 „Wege“beer / 20 Minutes or 40 drunk or 1h really drunk :)
@@Kokuswolf well, when she realized that she walked 10 miles instead of just 10k steps, she said, “well, I’m jobless for the moment, might as well get fit”
@@Agent_Lokii self report lol. Walking 2 hours a day is nothing, that's just four 30 minute walks. Unless you struggle with mobility, and there's no shame in that, that should be entirely manageable and a normal part of your day.
Pro German walking tipp: look back occasionally. you don't need to remember how you got lost, you need to remember how to get back. Things look very differently going back
Not a retriever, a retriever would bounce along, get sidetracked, explore the woods, come back and ask, what’s the holdup? More of a springer, (no offense, springers), fine for 5-7 km, then, carry me, mom.
When I told my colleagues about my vacation and said that I walked on average 30,000 steps a day, it was so interesting and fun for me - they didn’t understand. Because their vacation was just lying on the beach. I swam once in 2 weeks in the south of Italy and Sicily. I just love walking around cities, mountains and coasts. I'm Russian, but I understand German walkers perfectly well 😅
One time, after a party, there was no public transportation available so I walked the 13 km home. My first tram was available 45 minutes after I got home so I see it as a total win
@@nightelfland1778 I disagree. It was in my early 20s and we were already going strong for 2 days.. I doubt any teenager even could've stayed that long, legally
I was on a film shoot for a documentary in Bavaria several summers ago. I had probably around 12kg of film kit, including drone and a heavy tripod, plus 6 liters of water as it was summer and most of the filming was happening up in the hills. We climbed and hiked a minimum 4 hours daily, for five days. It was hard going but I loved every minute of it, but the best part was deep, no dream sleep 15 minutes after putting my head on the pillow.
One time, a few of my friends wanted to take the German exchange students on a hiking picnic as a welcoming party since we heard they loved hiking and traveled around America to hike in famous places before the school year started. My friends and I were fully decked out in hiking gear and one of my friend had a cooler to carry our sandwiches. Needless to say, us American kids were exhausted! At some point of the hike, one of the German exchange students took over the cooler and the other one was leisurely walking up this rocky and steep path in converse while motivating us and keeping our pace. I would never forget that embarrassment and appreciation towards those two!😅
@@tigergutt93Norwegians are also a germanic people. The people have historically been very connected. And infact had a very close bond up until ww2, in ww1 they even "supported" the Germans and had a close bond to the keiser. The languages also share a lot of history as a result.
Warm greetings to the fellas in Bergen, Norway Met some Norwegians on top of the mountains trailrunning. This ultra speed wasn't as fascinating as the fact that they wore shorts and tshirt while it rained like doomsday at 10°C. They told me that they were about to finish the famous 7 mountains tour around the city. 35km and 2400 meters of elevation. Sick guys, huge respect to our Scandinavian friends. Ha det bra ;)
I love going on walks, but they are not refreshing for a lot of the year where i live. It's either freezing (like well into the negatives) or it's humid, and like 100 degrees so i get to enjoy it so little.
@@sgoelitz4498 greetings from bergen, the germans that really like walking seem to come here, then they get passed by guys in their 70s ripping up the mountainside, what else to do when you are retred :-) Walking is mpstly for the half-fit among us, the fit ones obviously run over the mountains.
Germans def take "walking for your health" to a whole new level. My dad (here in western WA) was a mountaineer.... I have many fond memories of the 7-10mi forced marches - er, "hikes & walks" - we did every weekend as kids. No joke. And getting to the peak or end-point, it wasnt at all like taking a lovely hours-long break to enjoy, it was basically a 10-15min break before starting back.
My dad is German, and to accept an invitation to hike with him means you will be walking at least 12 hours across high mountains. We once ran out of water in the desert on a 16 hour hike and almost died. It’s the only time my mouth didn’t have saliva. He went on a hike with my brother once that lasted through the night, mom had a wilderness rescue team and helicopter ready to go by morning. They were fine.
American guy here, my fishing buddy is German and I can confirm this. I'm always saying things like, "we're pretty far out now, better save some daylight for the walk back."😂
thats why we germans need lebensraum its just anoying to be stopped by borders 3 timess a day ..and walking in circles just to stay inside germany i boring ..there nothing new to explore
Reminds me of my Austrian german professor. I went on the study abroad trip with 9 other students. We ended up living in Vienna and almost every day we got to walk all over Vienna with early morning classes that we had to travel too followed up with afternoon excursions with our professor that took us all over the city every day for a month by week two everyone's legs, except the boy scout, hurt and this man that is leading us, that we have been trying to keep up with has been limping throughout the entire trip. If i recall correctly he has arthritis in his hips. Hes in his 60s (possibly older) and we have people from the ages 20-39 hurting every single day because we are trying to stay in pace with the professor. I can't imagine trying to follow him when he was younger. But we got to see the most beautiful places and do some of the most amazing things. And honestly i miss being able to easy walk across an entire city as well as keeping up with the professor. Now im just hoping I'll get to go again soon.
I'm so glad I get to walk in Vienna every day, we have the best public transport but I walk everywhere, there's so much to see, just all the unique art nouveau houses alone are so fun to look at.
I climbed Kilimanjaro a few years back - I was 30 and in reasonably good health, but it was still very exhausting. And walking along the same route were four German boys who always looked like they were just quickly going to the shop to pick up some milk or something - they were never tired. They were really nice and friendly of course. But I have to say on summit day, when I'd already been climbing for 9 hours, we passed them as they strolled past on their way down and one of them cheerfully wished us good luck and said we were nearly there, I was so ready to just push him off the mountain.
i once climbed a mountain in my hometown salzburg. Some guys went by down and told me I'm almost there: they were serious. It took me at least another 1,5 hours to get to the top
lol, lol reminds me of a time my German friend visited me in California and asked me to go "hike." At the time, I was mildly fit with regular gym visits, but that hike brought me to my knees. Him? He seemed to literally skip up the trail gracefully with ease like he was some Disney character. Me? I was breathing hard, feeling exhausted, my leg hurting, and massively sweating..salt water stinging my eyes(oh?! And? I wore perfume, so I had bugs chasing me). He just kept going.
I loved going on a volksmarch on the weekends when we lived in Schwaebisch Gmuend. ❤ The medals we collected are beautiful and bring back wonderful memories.
On vacation in August we had a German tour guide. It was a 5 hour city/museum tour. This woman didn’t stop the entire time, talked the entire time, did not drink one sip of anything the entire time, never used the bathroom once. I could not believe my eyes and began to seriously doubt my German background because I could never!!! 😂😂😂
Me as a lil kid with my German mum. I ask when is it over, she's like soon. Keep walking see the sun set, wonder when I can watch TV again knowing it won't be today
While living in Germany, I learned to ask (when my German neighbors assured me ‘it wasn’t very far’), ‘German close or American close?’ They always laughed and told me, ‘Ja, take the auto’. Lol. They were always right. Their ‘close’ is a 15-20 minute DRIVE! Side Note: never been in better shape than when I resided in Germany. Even right after a blizzard, everyone, no matter the age, gets out and walks!
@@imnotliketheothernerds I had a collegue from Oregon working with me in the Netherlands. Its around a 2 hour drive from our sea border to the German border and according to him most people in Oregon would consider the whole country "beachfront property". Meanehile Dutch people complain if they have to drive more than 15 minutes to get anywhere 😂
On our trimm-dich-pfad, they had stations set up along the way, on one you'd do sit-ups on a reclining bench, with 3 different levels. On others you'd have to jump on stuff, and most often they would have a kneipbecken, which is a little pool filled with cold water coming from a natural spring.
I love this. In the 90s I was in the Army stationed in Germany and being INF I thought I had the marching walking thing down.... then I had a German girlfriend whose family went wandering every sunday....
If a German woman offers you a ride in her car, or asks if you'd like to follow on a hike, try to politely decline. Trust me on this one. You are better off getting on board the first cart of a roller coaster than get into a car driven by a woman from Germany ;D
As a Finn who lived surrounded by nature it never fails to give a small chuckle for foreigners who come to Finland and they realise the distances between them and "the nearest small store 15 kilometres away on foot". 😂
15 km is rather close, isn't it :) ( I lived in the Finnish countryside and the nearest 'regular' hospital was 80 km away, after first biking 10 km to the nearest busstop. Was 'sort of fun' when I had a colonoscopy waiting at the hospital, and had fasted on water for three days… ).
@@ShadzeriosFIN heh, yes, that's definitely the next level. Some friends in Utsjoki once invited me over, saying, "hey, just fly to Rovaniemi, and we'll pick you up there." . When my friend said there was a 5-7 hour car trip ahead… it took a few hours to sink in… :)
And bad weather is no deterrent. I used to be the only one walking in terrible weather but in Germany I saw lots of Germans out in the snow, sleet and rain getting their fix of fresh air
This can also apply to American thru-Hikers, grew up near the Appalachian trail so I ran into quite a few, and they could do upwards for 20-25 miles a day, most I can get is 15 and I grew up there
Yup, you end up back when sun sets and then you are told, you are going for swim with them or you after all need to “walk” to store for breakfast, or you did not saw this museum and they are open, is not that great? At 11 p.m., you question what wrongdoing you did in your past life to deserve this…while they contemplate to take you to some castle/garden like sightseeing at 5 a.m. due to “short” distance with train….. But when you survive, they are one of your best memories for the rest of your life. Viva la endorphins, adventures and active holidays with Germans. 🎉
My first "walk" as a foreigner was organized by my teacher from a German course. I should have known something was up when, around the beginning, the only way to reach our first destination was by climbing 200 stairs. The "walk" lasted about 7 hours.
@@Cafeallday222I have learnt to adopt the term "hiking" (even though we generally use that more for mountain-climbing and morning-to-night hikes) when talking to international friends about my walks, because originally, everytime I whined about my family forcing me to go on a walk with them when I came to visit while wearing high heels, I was met with utter confusion why that's a problem. They did eventually understand when I explained that it's usually a 5+ hour thing uphill through the forest on unpaved paths, not "walk through the inner city park for 20 minutes" 😂
So relatable. When I lived at my German friends’ home, they said they were going to fetch some breads for tomorrow’s breakfast, and asked if I wanted to join them. I answered yes. It took me 30 minutes plus to reach the bakery, and 40 minutes plus to return, passing through the woods by feet of course.
Every time I visit Europe I love walking all over the place, when I tried walking to the store back in the US, my neighbor thought my car broke down and offered to give me a ride XD.
My dad was stationed in Bitburg when I was 13 (mid 80’s). I still have medals from Volksmarches. We went sooo many times. We always kept it light and only did the 10K, but the countryside was so beautiful.
I can confirm this is true. The amount of times I’ve felt smug about getting up somewhere high and then bumped into a German family…with young kids and an all terrain buggy!!
Ahahah this was my family. We'd go mountain climbing (not Mont Blanc level ofc but southern France) when I was 10, my little brother was 8 and my sister was 6. My dad would just carry us when we got tired but we MUST GET TO THE TOP. I remember those times fondly.
I was told by my Aunt that we have German ancestry (really researching that) but it would probably explain my two habits this (walking wherever possible) and opening my windows in the dead of winter.
That`s why they are able to do it at their age and probably the next 10 years too. There is a German saying "Wer rastet der rostet.". It vaguely translates to "´While you are resting you are rusting.".
Considering that I grew up in a German town where small children learnt to bicycle before running, I think I can be proud of my 3 km walk or run daily.
@@Chiungalla79 and it's true, you need to keep up. And even while sick, you can do light exercise like stretching, to keep your muscles from aching and getting sore.
As a french and a swiss, I can confirm we also love our walks! Walking several kilometers for "leisure" or pleasure during our free time (and not necessarily with a work out in mind most of the time) is a very normal and beloved activity.
@@bluedragonfly8139Start as a toddler. Walk and bike to kindergarten and school. No schoolbus. That’s easely 10km+ per day. In the US this is called high intensity exercise while in F, Ger and CH its normalcy.
This sounds so amazing, I'm jealous that you get the opportunity to do that regularly. Where I live it's not really safe or pleasant to walk around the neighborhood and you have to travel far to get nice walking trails. I would walk for ages every day if I could 😢
I grew up in Germany and when I moved to the US I missed my walks so much that I started walking for hours through suburbs to go shopping. Many times people would pull up to me in their cars with concerned looks on their faces and offer me rides.
Same happened to me, but after moving from Russia to Switzerland. Which was quite surprising. Same happened later in southeast Asia. People literally don't understand why some may take a long walk along the city enjoying that activity so much. Zurich area surprised me a lot as the infrastructure has been created for cars only, and zero for pedestrians. Sometimes it's even tricky how to get to the supermarket which stands just 10m ahead...same time in Asia pedestrian paths are all occupied by vendors and vehicles, what makes the city touring quite challenging and risky. Somebody can roll over right at the sidewalk.
@@Timesobserver_XeniaIt's the same in Belgium where I currently live. There are few sidewalks and people mainly use cars to get around. I was very shocked, because I am Polish, and in Poland, in every city and even in the villages there are sidewalks and a lot of people walk, just for "fun".
Yeah people here in the US don't understand the beauty of walking to do simple daily tasks. I love to walk if I can. I used to walk to do every task and people would always ask if I need a ride. I always said/say no. They assume you don't want to be walking lmao or that you don't own a car lmao 🤣 I just want to walk when I can!
@@Timesobserver_Xenia This subject has interested me more and more over the years. I really do hope that the movements to plan large parts of cities around pedestrian traffic gain more traction. I know other places in the world already do this, but I've been in the US most of my life. It's concrete/car hell here for the most part. The vehicles are getting larger and larger as well.
This reminds me of my German husband, from whom I had to learn that whenever he said it wasn't that far away, it was only a 10-minute walk away and therefore it was worth not taking the car.I then walked uphill for an hour and arrived totally sweaty and out of breath. Since then I have known WHAT it means when a German talks about a 10-minute walk. But the worst thing: our two daughters are now grown-up women and they are just like that
Good for your daughters. They have far better chances to lead a good and healthy life than the average American. (I assume this comment comes from US. If not I still like to obnoxiously compare it to Americans :D)
@@florendilhobbit2099 Thank you for your kind and true answer, but I am originally from Persia. But you're really right about it and I'm not really desperate about it, just about what Germans mean by a 10-minute walk if it is actually a 1 hour hike!😂
@@Pasinoe62 Oh when we say "10 minutes" you better pack food for at least two days. :D Best of wishes and greetings to Persia then. :) (Do you refer to Iran as Persia? Or is it some other place? Just for my personal understanding of the world :)
@@florendilhobbit2099 I come from the Sassanids, our religion is that of Zoroaster until the 7th century AD. the Arabs introduced Islam. Iran is Islamic, but Persia was originally Zoroaster. In 1934 Persia was renamed Iran It is my small and insignificant rebellion against the Islamic revolution in Iran when I prefer to talk about Persia 🤭🤗
As a Canadian who grew up in the country side - 15 km from any type of “civilization” - I would walk the forests and trails. Distance never mattered. I now live in Germany and can outwalk my German friends. On a good day, it could be 20 to 25 km. Today, I’m aiming at a city tour of 15 km. I’m over 60 and healthy for my age. All I can say, is get walking. It’s just one step at a time!😎
I firmly believe that long distance walking is the key to health. You should take a look at Taiwanese people, a lot of the elderly people there hike for hours through the moutains even in the rain. I'm only in the mid 20's but these elderly people hike faster than me up moutains
I'm an American, I live close to mountains and would hike up and down mountains, day and night (I especially loved going stargazeing away from civilization) and can walk comfortably with my German freinds.
Ребятки, все фигня ребята)) от моей работы до ближайшей цивилизации 8-10 часов на вахтовке (пассажирский вездеход), а несчастные 15 километров это расстояние, которое я ежедневно прохожу чтобы прогулять своих собак (в городе)
I’m a 26 year old guy and I’ve been going for long walks since 15. Felt a little embarrassed to do it when I was younger cause I didn’t really play a cool sport or anything but it really is one thing that I do almost everyday that I could never give up for anything. Walking is just so awesome. Also my great great great great grandparents came over from Germany so who knows, maybe it’s genetic
In 1705, the 20-year old Bach walked from Arnstadt to Lübeck - some 250 miles - and stayed nearly three months to hear and meet with Buxtehude, “to comprehend one thing and another about his art”.
So true! I just moved to Germany and I'm hitting the mountain trails with a day pack and walking sticks while the German grandmother's are casually strolling. I even came across an elderly man with a walker going up the mountain.
My son recently spent 5 weeks in Germany. He and another student lived with a host family. The other student could not keep up with the 70 year old "host mother". My son showed me all the walking he did on his phone. His longest day was 24-1/2 km. He loved it there!
I'm German and my best friend who is 62 always walks to my house when he's visiting me... It's almost 40km from his house to mine 😂 (and I'm not kidding... He literally gets up at 5 so he can be at my home in the afternoon)
My grandfather is 84 and he still does his daily walk up 322 stairs and a really long walk up a mountain. This is not to mention the fact that he lives in a 3 story house. Yes, he is German
"I Know a shortcut" - My grandad who turned a quick walk into something that lasted 14 hours totally got us lost and unsure how to get us back home. Miss you Granda
Many people don't know that, but we do this because in times of peace there's no other countries to march into. So we just randomly hike around our own country.
As a german I can confirm that 19 km are the warm-up.
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but only 19km in the mountains☝️
19km is the spaziergang long to the start of the "real walk"
"And now we can walk back"
This is why we need taxi drones to pick us up from wilderness.
This sums up how I felt 40K into a Kennedy March in the Netherlands. Had worn shitty socks so my feet had been on fire for 20K every step was agony I could feel every bump and leaf on the ground. I felt like I had been walking for a week already. Then my dad clapped me on my back went.
"Come on son, we're halfway there."
He took my fucking soul with that sentence.
@@Alexander-tu3iv Such experiences will toughen you up for later.
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I just burst out laughing because that's exactly what my Norwegian partner said once we finished hiking up the mountain to see the mountain village. I could cry.
I was a US soldier stationed in Garmisch Germany and I would hike up the mountains on my off days. One day I took a friend who was new to the base. We got about half way up and he crapped out. As he was sitting on the side of the trail trying to recover an elderly German women passed us and asked him his age. He said 22. She laughed and said she was 78 and kept on laughing until she was out of sight 🤣
This sounds like Mountain folks. 😂
My Grandma is 78 and had never had a drivers license in her life. She walks and rides her bike everywhere. That woman is a machine.
Just like birds, elderly women have hollow bones which helps them fly.
@@LimitedWard Yes we do.
He he 😂
A german would never leave the empty pfand bottle behind
The German is the woman...she didn't even take a sip of water, lol
it is the poor germans who need those bottles. i was in the situation when i was glad to find some when i was bankrupt and sick. now i am still not rich but i leave bottles for others to take them. i don't leave them in the forrest but in parks or places where the homeless meet or stops of public traffic. i do not put them into trash because why do we want people to grab into the trash for what they need so desperately. or some old women are even too small to get the bottle then.
What a lie. Are u German?
It’s 25 cents!!!
This year, there was an incident where an 82-year-old German man, who went missing while taking a stroll in Takayama, Gifu, Japan, was found far away in Tokyo. We Japanese were puzzled as to how this could have happened, but after watching this video, the mystery was solved.
That does sound like something I could imagine my grandfather do😂
My grandma had dementia and was still living at home when it came on. She went shopping and started walking back to her apartment, then walked by and kept walking for over kilometers until she ended up downtown.
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My techer here in germany close to 70 and wood working teacher is wild. He drove with the bike through half of germany to his family and that was nothing for him he even walks still marathons :0
That's like 3 days of walking haha, that's very impressive actually
As a French, I can confirm that they walk over to us
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Hansel and Gretel makes so much more sense now
well, as a german i can tell you the forest isn't dark enough!
@@Synchronicety it's not dark enough? Have you been to the Harz Mountains in winter? Or places like Thale's "Witch mountain?" We even have a large forest region literally called "Dark Forest"? 👀🧐🤔🤔
@@re-l1708 i'm from black forest... there is no darker forest in germoney 😄😂
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It's so hilarious hearing you guys trying to one up each other! 😂😂❤ (from an Australian who lived in Vienna for 2 years and Munich 2 years -- not lived 'with' a German, but alongside them (and Austrians!)
Warning in Austria: If a trail says “2h” it means that it’s at least 4h to get back again. They don’t tell you distance. They tell you an approximate time at an undefined tempo for going to a point. Now that point might be a little hut 6km up on a mountain. So it’s really vital to remember that the only way down is back the same way, so ❗️double the time❗️ Also bring water and warm clothes and a rain jacket. I’ve started walks in +10C and ☀️ in the valley, to peak at -5C and ❄️ and an arctic wind 💨 from some icy hell. Be prepared.
Depends, some overestimate and estimate more time and a slow pace, and some not, it really depends.
That said in hiking it cant harm to plan a bit timespan that you in worst case can sit chill in a schutzhaus
SHE FINALLY LEARNED THE SMILE!!!
and the eyerolling is just german perfection
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To be honest, smile is historically flaunted by Brits than Germans
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@@purbayanchowdhury7836and she is German, so she had to learn it.
😂 when we were living in Germany, I became friends with the mother of one of our daughter’s Kindergarten classmates. She only spoke Russian and German. I only spoke English and was working on learning German.
One day, after noticing that I was going for a walk after dropping our daughter ad Kindergarten, she asked if I wanted to walk with her. I said, “ja,” and thus began my German language training in earnest.
After walking 5 days a week for several weeks, my German was getting better. We were having some conversations. She told me about the other women in the village where we lived who said they wanted to go walking with her but then could not keep up and would complain about the length of the walk…she then said, “but you, Kathy, you are like a tractor!”😂
We walked for an hour, every week day, through the woods, up and down hills, it was heaven!…but not for everyone. She taught me how to speak German along the way.😃❤️
It's such a cool story!
I remember me and friend used to go for long walks a couple years ago almost everyday. But we live in a city so we mostly walked around sidewalks or parks!
This sounds amazing, honestly! Good on you!
This is so sweet!
Congratulations! True immersion. Outstanding.
An hour isn't a lot.
In Hamburg, some friends I was drinking with one night asked me to go along with them to a club. They said it was nearby. Just a short walk. Pointed like it was around the corner. I was very drunk. I wondered why we never stopped walking. I thought my friends were taking me somewhere to harvest my organs.
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Cmon. Obviously you walked between Sternschanze and Reeperbahn. It´s a short walk of around 2 „Wege“beer / 20 Minutes or 40 drunk or 1h really drunk :)
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I love these kinds of videos mostly because of all of the stories you guys share down here in the comments section!
The trick is: Don't stop. 😊 If you come into a kind of trance you can walk ... its meditation.
This guy walks.
Wer rastet der rostet!
so true. for me, it applies to so many other activities. as long as I keep moving, I wont feel tired
Yes! Walking mindfulness, walking meditation, so much easier for most people to access than trying to sit down and force their brains to behave.
But it must be a faster pace
My girlfriend, which is german mistook 10.000 steps to 10 miles for some reason and as a result, she'd walk 10 miles almost everyday
Did she noticed?
@@Kokuswolf well, when she realized that she walked 10 miles instead of just 10k steps, she said, “well, I’m jobless for the moment, might as well get fit”
So how is your fiancee doing?@@ardianhesa4340
On average someone walks 3-4 miles per hour...she walked 2-4 hours everyday and didn't think that maybe something was off? Pressing X to doubt.
@@Agent_Lokii self report lol. Walking 2 hours a day is nothing, that's just four 30 minute walks. Unless you struggle with mobility, and there's no shame in that, that should be entirely manageable and a normal part of your day.
I am German and Scottish. I have never had a short that captured both so well.
Same
In German, walking apps come default with 100 000 steps
naw, just 10.000/day
The best part of going on a German’s walk is when you ask them where you are and they haven’t the slightest clue but still know how to get back
Pro German walking tipp: look back occasionally. you don't need to remember how you got lost, you need to remember how to get back. Things look very differently going back
Lol I'm that german. I never actually know where I am but I know exactly how to get back without the need to use the same path
@@lissyyy5500 Orientierung :)
Same, i also somehow always find my way back 😂
Im from Austria thou. 🇦🇹
@@eisflamme2438 servas :)
I love that she knows exactly what she's doing and where she's going and he looks like a sad, lost golden retriever. He's trying
Not a retriever, a retriever would bounce along, get sidetracked, explore the woods, come back and ask, what’s the holdup? More of a springer, (no offense, springers), fine for 5-7 km, then, carry me, mom.
you are odly specific about this@@ellicooper2323
he's just Liam.
@@ellicooper2323 my doggo just wants to be carried after a while lmfao
@@ellicooper2323 I think you've just outlined my favorite walking style XD
Meanwhile, in the US we scream at each other from our hummers as we fight for a parking spot that’s six inches from the Wal-Mart entrance 😂
When I told my colleagues about my vacation and said that I walked on average 30,000 steps a day, it was so interesting and fun for me - they didn’t understand. Because their vacation was just lying on the beach. I swam once in 2 weeks in the south of Italy and Sicily. I just love walking around cities, mountains and coasts. I'm Russian, but I understand German walkers perfectly well 😅
Your holiday is my ideal holiday! So glad there are still walkers out there & not just sun bathers. 😅
same
One time, after a party, there was no public transportation available so I walked the 13 km home. My first tram was available 45 minutes after I got home so I see it as a total win
Maybe that is why the German trains are always late. To encourage walking! 😅😂
It's nothing compared to some teenagers after partying at night. 😅
@@nightelfland1778 I disagree. It was in my early 20s and we were already going strong for 2 days.. I doubt any teenager even could've stayed that long, legally
The most normal thing to do.
Rookie numbers. Was at a party, no way home except 21km walk. I was sober and very happy when i came home and it was 8am
As an italian, i can walk 5 minutes to take a coffe
🤣😂🤣😂 Yes they do!!!
definitely worth the sacrifice!
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That’s not a lot…
My kind of people! 🇸🇪❤🇮🇹
I knew that already though 😉 your coffee is great!
Just let me drink Espresso in the afternoon without judgement ok? 😘
When I missed my school bus back home i always walked the 12 kilometers home without any hesitation whatsoever 😅
Same😂
I was on a film shoot for a documentary in Bavaria several summers ago. I had probably around 12kg of film kit, including drone and a heavy tripod, plus 6 liters of water as it was summer and most of the filming was happening up in the hills. We climbed and hiked a minimum 4 hours daily, for five days. It was hard going but I loved every minute of it, but the best part was deep, no dream sleep 15 minutes after putting my head on the pillow.
One time, a few of my friends wanted to take the German exchange students on a hiking picnic as a welcoming party since we heard they loved hiking and traveled around America to hike in famous places before the school year started. My friends and I were fully decked out in hiking gear and one of my friend had a cooler to carry our sandwiches. Needless to say, us American kids were exhausted! At some point of the hike, one of the German exchange students took over the cooler and the other one was leisurely walking up this rocky and steep path in converse while motivating us and keeping our pace. I would never forget that embarrassment and appreciation towards those two!😅
Yeah... That sounds familiar!
Norwegiansand Germans are so similiar. I wonder if it has something to do with some event that might have happened before xD
@@tigergutt93probaly more due to. The norwegians having alotta mountains and not so close Citys?
We Americans
@@tigergutt93Norwegians are also a germanic people. The people have historically been very connected. And infact had a very close bond up until ww2, in ww1 they even "supported" the Germans and had a close bond to the keiser. The languages also share a lot of history as a result.
As a Scandinavian I feel you Germans, walking is so relaxing and refreshing.
Warm greetings to the fellas in Bergen, Norway Met some Norwegians on top of the mountains trailrunning. This ultra speed wasn't as fascinating as the fact that they wore shorts and tshirt while it rained like doomsday at 10°C. They told me that they were about to finish the famous 7 mountains tour around the city. 35km and 2400 meters of elevation. Sick guys, huge respect to our Scandinavian friends. Ha det bra ;)
I love going on walks, but they are not refreshing for a lot of the year where i live. It's either freezing (like well into the negatives) or it's humid, and like 100 degrees so i get to enjoy it so little.
@@rockbandandghmasteryeah as a fellow skandinavian i walk 25km almost every day
True, as a swiss I can recommend the german walks for relaxing.
@@sgoelitz4498 greetings from bergen, the germans that really like walking seem to come here, then they get passed by guys in their 70s ripping up the mountainside, what else to do when you are retred :-) Walking is mpstly for the half-fit among us, the fit ones obviously run over the mountains.
I love that she smiles at the end.. like : "sick, he can keep up .. this mate is acceptable" 😂😂
I think it's more that they're teaching the non-Germans to be "stark". 😂
Germans def take "walking for your health" to a whole new level. My dad (here in western WA) was a mountaineer.... I have many fond memories of the 7-10mi forced marches - er, "hikes & walks" - we did every weekend as kids. No joke. And getting to the peak or end-point, it wasnt at all like taking a lovely hours-long break to enjoy, it was basically a 10-15min break before starting back.
German ancestors here 👋 if u sit u rust is what I was always told in German 😂
Spanish tenor Placido Domingo says, "If I rest, I rust." Maybe it's a European sentiment...
This is the perfect song for this video
Nailed it 100% with that choice
This is EXACTLY what I was thinking too! 😍😂
Nar Haverin, ken?
Yes
Nobody can vibe so good to this song than a German who goes for a walk
My dad is German, and to accept an invitation to hike with him means you will be walking at least 12 hours across high mountains. We once ran out of water in the desert on a 16 hour hike and almost died. It’s the only time my mouth didn’t have saliva. He went on a hike with my brother once that lasted through the night, mom had a wilderness rescue team and helicopter ready to go by morning. They were fine.
holy poggers 🤣🤣🤣
The desert one is just stupid.
Guys. Desert story is just stupidity. Stupidity and toughness is difference where demarcation line is graveyard.
In Germany we say "Geschichten aus dem Paulanergarten"😅
If your dad is German what does it make you? Israele jew?
The song is so on point🙌🏻
Pro tip: how to make a German girl smile? Walk with her for 19km and YOU MUST SURVIVE!!! 😂
And Go the Same way Back 😂
American guy here, my fishing buddy is German and I can confirm this. I'm always saying things like, "we're pretty far out now, better save some daylight for the walk back."😂
And his answer alwas is: You need light to walk?
@@AltIng9154 word for freakin word.🤣
@@JuanSchwartz😂
you don't carry a torch light on your walks?
@@penitent2401 If you mean me... exactly not. I can see at night... . If you use a torch light you can't see anything what is outside the Spot. 😊
In Germany we say „Verdauungsspaziergang“
😂👍
Hab herzlich gelacht. Aber es stimmt 😁
Noone cares what you say, its only money
Nach dem Essen sollst Du ruh‘n oder tausend Schritte tun
Und wenn man auf der Bank Pause macht: "Wer rastet der rostet."
It's a coping mechanism. It's how they resist the urge to march into Belgium, Poland, and France.
Nah, it's to be prepared for marching next time.
thats why we germans need lebensraum its just anoying to be stopped by borders 3 timess a day ..and walking in circles just to stay inside germany i boring ..there nothing new to explore
Reminds me of my Austrian german professor. I went on the study abroad trip with 9 other students. We ended up living in Vienna and almost every day we got to walk all over Vienna with early morning classes that we had to travel too followed up with afternoon excursions with our professor that took us all over the city every day for a month by week two everyone's legs, except the boy scout, hurt and this man that is leading us, that we have been trying to keep up with has been limping throughout the entire trip. If i recall correctly he has arthritis in his hips. Hes in his 60s (possibly older) and we have people from the ages 20-39 hurting every single day because we are trying to stay in pace with the professor. I can't imagine trying to follow him when he was younger. But we got to see the most beautiful places and do some of the most amazing things. And honestly i miss being able to easy walk across an entire city as well as keeping up with the professor. Now im just hoping I'll get to go again soon.
I'm so glad I get to walk in Vienna every day, we have the best public transport but I walk everywhere, there's so much to see, just all the unique art nouveau houses alone are so fun to look at.
Next time he has to say:
Langsam, wir sind doch nicht auf der Flucht!
my dad would always ask my mom "Wann müssen wir denn da sein?"
And she'll say "Die langsanste Gangart ist der Laufschritt!"
😂😂😂
@@caobita he would or he did?
We say: Habt ihr heute wieder Jagdwurst gegessen?!
I climbed Kilimanjaro a few years back - I was 30 and in reasonably good health, but it was still very exhausting. And walking along the same route were four German boys who always looked like they were just quickly going to the shop to pick up some milk or something - they were never tired. They were really nice and friendly of course. But I have to say on summit day, when I'd already been climbing for 9 hours, we passed them as they strolled past on their way down and one of them cheerfully wished us good luck and said we were nearly there, I was so ready to just push him off the mountain.
well it certainly is fortunate then that they walked faster than you that day 😆 totally friendly joking. Congrats on climbing Kilimanjaro! Cheers :)
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Here's a twist no one expected 😂😂😂
i once climbed a mountain in my hometown salzburg. Some guys went by down and told me I'm almost there: they were serious. It took me at least another 1,5 hours to get to the top
lol, lol reminds me of a time my German friend visited me in California and asked me to go "hike." At the time, I was mildly fit with regular gym visits, but that hike brought me to my knees. Him? He seemed to literally skip up the trail gracefully with ease like he was some Disney character. Me? I was breathing hard, feeling exhausted, my leg hurting, and massively sweating..salt water stinging my eyes(oh?! And? I wore perfume, so I had bugs chasing me). He just kept going.
I loved going on a volksmarch on the weekends when we lived in Schwaebisch Gmuend. ❤ The medals we collected are beautiful and bring back wonderful memories.
Famous last words "I dont mind" and "I trust you"
On vacation in August we had a German tour guide. It was a 5 hour city/museum tour. This woman didn’t stop the entire time, talked the entire time, did not drink one sip of anything the entire time, never used the bathroom once. I could not believe my eyes and began to seriously doubt my German background because I could never!!! 😂😂😂
Yes, this obsession that yanks have with constantly drinking is really bad. It totally goes against our evolution.
It's hilarious cause I've got German background and people used to say that I was like a camel and it matched that, now I guess I know why!
@@emminetyour not german, your american
HAH same!
@@manicmangomango8118 I never said that?
Me as a lil kid with my German mum. I ask when is it over, she's like soon. Keep walking see the sun set, wonder when I can watch TV again knowing it won't be today
These videos make me love Germans so much !
Your wife actually made it! A true german woman.
Always has been. Well, technically or something like that
@@k.r.99 But as far as he grew into germanhood she became more and more an original british girl.
@@k.r.99 Yes she was but she's still one! 😆
@@iloveanimeandmangano Liam just 999999999% better
@@Mareux06 LMAO 9999999999%
I'M ROLLING ON THE GROUND 😂
While living in Germany, I learned to ask (when my German neighbors assured me ‘it wasn’t very far’), ‘German close or American close?’ They always laughed and told me, ‘Ja, take the auto’. Lol. They were always right. Their ‘close’ is a 15-20 minute DRIVE! Side Note: never been in better shape than when I resided in Germany. Even right after a blizzard, everyone, no matter the age, gets out and walks!
Blizzard in Germany? Where did you live?
but a 20 minute drive isn't far to walk. just time consuming.
Wait till they find out what an Australian means by "up the road" 😝
I live in the middle of nowhere Midwest us.
My idea of close is like, less than an hour at 70mph. 😂
@@imnotliketheothernerds I had a collegue from Oregon working with me in the Netherlands. Its around a 2 hour drive from our sea border to the German border and according to him most people in Oregon would consider the whole country "beachfront property".
Meanehile Dutch people complain if they have to drive more than 15 minutes to get anywhere 😂
Same in Switzerland, yet at many times, the hike is at an incline.😅
On our trimm-dich-pfad, they had stations set up along the way, on one you'd do sit-ups on a reclining bench, with 3 different levels. On others you'd have to jump on stuff, and most often they would have a kneipbecken, which is a little pool filled with cold water coming from a natural spring.
When 20km is not enough but the mountain ends too soon ;-P
Walking through the woods is AMAZING. I want to go to Germany just for a friend to walk with me 😂
Come over, We'll walk with you. :)
I join ya too!
too bad germany has barelly any forests left
@@xKuukkelix I wouldn't call 30% of the total area of our country "barely any forests left", but yeah, it used to be more forest back in the past.
You don't have to go tp germany to walk through woods...
now its time to turn around and walk another 19km. lovely walk
NOP
@@alexandrupreda1994YUP. My girlfriend is German and on our first date we went on a nice 20km walk.
Walk back? It's only 19km, minimum 30km before walking back.
@@livedandletdie Exactly!
I love this. In the 90s I was in the Army stationed in Germany and being INF I thought I had the marching walking thing down.... then I had a German girlfriend whose family went wandering every sunday....
Não tenho a menor pretensão de morar na Alemanha, mas sou completamente encantada com seus vídeos, adoro seu canal. ❤
My aunt is German. She asked if I wanted to go for a walk. Oh boy, was I wrong. Totally brings back memories.
You are Muslim! Your aunt is not German! Germans are not people living in German Land
If a German woman offers you a ride in her car, or asks if you'd like to follow on a hike, try to politely decline.
Trust me on this one.
You are better off getting on board the first cart of a roller coaster than get into a car driven by a woman from Germany ;D
As a Finn who lived surrounded by nature it never fails to give a small chuckle for foreigners who come to Finland and they realise the distances between them and "the nearest small store 15 kilometres away on foot". 😂
15 km is rather close, isn't it :)
( I lived in the Finnish countryside and the nearest 'regular' hospital was 80 km away, after first biking 10 km to the nearest busstop.
Was 'sort of fun' when I had a colonoscopy waiting at the hospital, and had fasted on water for three days… ).
@@miskaknapek yeah its not as long distance as it is for example on the Northern Finland. There higher you go the longer the distances grow.
@@ShadzeriosFIN heh, yes, that's definitely the next level.
Some friends in Utsjoki once invited me over, saying, "hey, just fly to Rovaniemi, and we'll pick you up there." .
When my friend said there was a 5-7 hour car trip ahead… it took a few hours to sink in… :)
I bet life up there is much slower and more relaxed though - if only because you need to travel so much to do anything@@miskaknapek
@@Thomas-xd4cx excellent point. Probably quite some truth to it
the girl was the one who did the smirk this time 😂😂
This reminds me of “going on a walk “ with my German husband in South Tyrol. After a few hours I was in the clouds on a mountain top
As a German, i can confirm that we LOVE our walks
I do as well and while where I live is rural and lovely, the roads are narrow, windy, and lined with gross ditches. How do other people handle this?
@@rosendove what do you mean?
It’s not walk 😂 it’s hike
I'm Swiss but same here, it's really meditative (+ bonus points if you get rewarded with some nice sights around the country!)
And bad weather is no deterrent. I used to be the only one walking in terrible weather but in Germany I saw lots of Germans out in the snow, sleet and rain getting their fix of fresh air
My mom in a nutshell.. If she had some free time, she'd just pick a random mountain with nothing on it, and drag us up it..
Which country?
@@sonew9848 Czech republic.. The upside is that we don't have super big mountains...
Ok. Its fun then. You people are lucky still you go to mountains
That sounds awesome!
That's exactly how I grew up lol and now i do the same with my kids :D
This can also apply to American thru-Hikers, grew up near the Appalachian trail so I ran into quite a few, and they could do upwards for 20-25 miles a day, most I can get is 15 and I grew up there
I started to learning German because of your videos. Im just in my third week, but i'm loving. ❤
very unpleasant language, say it least
As a foreigner living in Germany this resonated with me on so many levels 😭😭😭
Yup, you end up back when sun sets and then you are told, you are going for swim with them or you after all need to “walk” to store for breakfast, or you did not saw this museum and they are open, is not that great? At 11 p.m., you question what wrongdoing you did in your past life to deserve this…while they contemplate to take you to some castle/garden like sightseeing at 5 a.m. due to “short” distance with train…..
But when you survive, they are one of your best memories for the rest of your life.
Viva la endorphins, adventures and active holidays with Germans. 🎉
It’s sounds more like what we call “hiking” in Canada - it can be an all day things. Walks are short.
How do you find buddies who are into walking in nature? I’d like to find other people or groups my age to hike with.
My first "walk" as a foreigner was organized by my teacher from a German course. I should have known something was up when, around the beginning, the only way to reach our first destination was by climbing 200 stairs. The "walk" lasted about 7 hours.
@@Cafeallday222I have learnt to adopt the term "hiking" (even though we generally use that more for mountain-climbing and morning-to-night hikes) when talking to international friends about my walks, because originally, everytime I whined about my family forcing me to go on a walk with them when I came to visit while wearing high heels, I was met with utter confusion why that's a problem. They did eventually understand when I explained that it's usually a 5+ hour thing uphill through the forest on unpaved paths, not "walk through the inner city park for 20 minutes" 😂
So relatable.
When I lived at my German friends’ home, they said they were going to fetch some breads for tomorrow’s breakfast, and asked if I wanted to join them.
I answered yes.
It took me 30 minutes plus to reach the bakery, and 40 minutes plus to return, passing through the woods by feet of course.
"We can walk to the Moscow and Stalingrad , trust me ! " Hitler
plus what? dont get that, english is not my first languague, why you just dont say the the number?
@@house30housePlus means he doesn't remember the exact time but it was a bit more than 30 or 40 minutes.
thx@@thechosenone1533
Wow, how lucky to have the bakery right around the corner!
As a Canadian I can confirm these two have walked more kilometres then the total distance it takes to circle Canada.
A german with his dog can conquer the world on foot ❤😂
So ein kleiner Spaziergang auf 'nem Sonntag ist schon was Feines.
Nichts ist damit vergleichbar
Da kann der Sonntagsschmaus auch langsam verdaut werden 😅
Grüße aus Belgien, aber 20 km ?? Ein kleiner Spaziergang? 😭
20 sind ja jetz nicht viel@@greyscalesx
@@greyscalesx Der große Spaziergang fängt bei 40 km an.
Breaking news: Brit had to be recovered by mountain rescue while german girlfriend refused help, walking home 30km and arriving before helicopter
I am not German but your videos encouraged me to Spazieren Gehen
The music was right on spot! I love how her smile at the end is just like his.
No wonder my dachshund wants me to walk him in the woods for 5 hrs straight
😂😂😂 alles für den Dackel
Legend said that their journey never ended. Love that smirk
That's the "Time to walk back" smirk xDD
Oh yes mine end soon then 😅
Every time I visit Europe I love walking all over the place, when I tried walking to the store back in the US, my neighbor thought my car broke down and offered to give me a ride XD.
My dad was stationed in Bitburg when I was 13 (mid 80’s). I still have medals from Volksmarches. We went sooo many times.
We always kept it light and only did the 10K, but the countryside was so beautiful.
This perfectly summarizes the plight of all non-outdoorsy people with romantic partners who like to *walk* 💀
I can confirm this is true. The amount of times I’ve felt smug about getting up somewhere high and then bumped into a German family…with young kids and an all terrain buggy!!
Ahahah this was my family. We'd go mountain climbing (not Mont Blanc level ofc but southern France) when I was 10, my little brother was 8 and my sister was 6. My dad would just carry us when we got tired but we MUST GET TO THE TOP. I remember those times fondly.
This is my family twice a month. We have an 18 month old and a 3 month old and expecting more to join!
@@Thomas-xd4cx haha! Sounds amazing :)
@@nopenahda8617 well done! I feel I’m doing well if I lure my offspring to the local cafe *sigh*
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For those of us who use miles....
That is just under 12 miles.
10,000 steps for me is just about two miles.
Way to go.
Inspirational.
I was told by my Aunt that we have German ancestry (really researching that) but it would probably explain my two habits this (walking wherever possible) and opening my windows in the dead of winter.
Relatives of mine are 80 and 84 years old and they walk at least 12km EVERY DAY. 365 days a year.
An older guy from my church in Germany walks 30,000 steps per day with his dog.
If you die, you might as well die healthy?
That`s why they are able to do it at their age and probably the next 10 years too.
There is a German saying "Wer rastet der rostet.". It vaguely translates to "´While you are resting you are rusting.".
Considering that I grew up in a German town where small children learnt to bicycle before running, I think I can be proud of my 3 km walk or run daily.
@@Chiungalla79 and it's true, you need to keep up. And even while sick, you can do light exercise like stretching, to keep your muscles from aching and getting sore.
As a french and a swiss, I can confirm we also love our walks! Walking several kilometers for "leisure" or pleasure during our free time (and not necessarily with a work out in mind most of the time) is a very normal and beloved activity.
Why though?
@@bluedragonfly8139you wouldn't question spending 3hours scrolling, would you? Being outside is awesome and more rewarding imo
@@bluedragonfly8139 such an american reply
@@bluedragonfly8139Start as a toddler. Walk and bike to kindergarten and school. No schoolbus. That’s easely 10km+ per day. In the US this is called high intensity exercise while in F, Ger and CH its normalcy.
This sounds so amazing, I'm jealous that you get the opportunity to do that regularly. Where I live it's not really safe or pleasant to walk around the neighborhood and you have to travel far to get nice walking trails. I would walk for ages every day if I could 😢
That was such a nice walk, I am jealous 😂
Russian grannies love to say that was their way to school.
кстати, да, всегда вспоминаю как бабушка мне рассказывала как они ходили в школу по 10 км туда и обратно! Дети! по 10 лет!
Extraordinary. Love your content man!! 😂😂
I grew up in Germany and when I moved to the US I missed my walks so much that I started walking for hours through suburbs to go shopping. Many times people would pull up to me in their cars with concerned looks on their faces and offer me rides.
I have a rule - I don’t accept offers for rides unless they also offer candy
Same happened to me, but after moving from Russia to Switzerland. Which was quite surprising. Same happened later in southeast Asia. People literally don't understand why some may take a long walk along the city enjoying that activity so much. Zurich area surprised me a lot as the infrastructure has been created for cars only, and zero for pedestrians. Sometimes it's even tricky how to get to the supermarket which stands just 10m ahead...same time in Asia pedestrian paths are all occupied by vendors and vehicles, what makes the city touring quite challenging and risky. Somebody can roll over right at the sidewalk.
@@Timesobserver_XeniaIt's the same in Belgium where I currently live. There are few sidewalks and people mainly use cars to get around. I was very shocked, because I am Polish, and in Poland, in every city and even in the villages there are sidewalks and a lot of people walk, just for "fun".
Yeah people here in the US don't understand the beauty of walking to do simple daily tasks. I love to walk if I can. I used to walk to do every task and people would always ask if I need a ride. I always said/say no. They assume you don't want to be walking lmao or that you don't own a car lmao 🤣 I just want to walk when I can!
@@Timesobserver_Xenia This subject has interested me more and more over the years. I really do hope that the movements to plan large parts of cities around pedestrian traffic gain more traction. I know other places in the world already do this, but I've been in the US most of my life. It's concrete/car hell here for the most part. The vehicles are getting larger and larger as well.
This reminds me of my German husband, from whom I had to learn that whenever he said it wasn't that far away, it was only a 10-minute walk away and therefore it was worth not taking the car.I then walked uphill for an hour and arrived totally sweaty and out of breath.
Since then I have known WHAT it means when a German talks about a 10-minute walk.
But the worst thing: our two daughters are now grown-up women and they are just like that
😂
Good for your daughters. They have far better chances to lead a good and healthy life than the average American. (I assume this comment comes from US. If not I still like to obnoxiously compare it to Americans :D)
@@florendilhobbit2099 Thank you for your kind and true answer, but I am originally from Persia.
But you're really right about it and I'm not really desperate about it, just about what Germans mean by a 10-minute walk if it is actually a 1 hour hike!😂
@@Pasinoe62 Oh when we say "10 minutes" you better pack food for at least two days. :D
Best of wishes and greetings to Persia then. :)
(Do you refer to Iran as Persia? Or is it some other place? Just for my personal understanding of the world :)
@@florendilhobbit2099 I come from the Sassanids, our religion is that of Zoroaster until the 7th century AD. the Arabs introduced Islam.
Iran is Islamic, but Persia was originally Zoroaster.
In 1934 Persia was renamed Iran
It is my small and insignificant rebellion against the Islamic revolution in Iran when I prefer to talk about Persia 🤭🤗
My dad was German, this is about right, lol 😂
As a German, this is the reason why I'm never leaving my apartment to not get pulled in
As a Canadian who grew up in the country side - 15 km from any type of “civilization” - I would walk the forests and trails. Distance never mattered. I now live in Germany and can outwalk my German friends. On a good day, it could be 20 to 25 km. Today, I’m aiming at a city tour of 15 km. I’m over 60 and healthy for my age. All I can say, is get walking. It’s just one step at a time!😎
I firmly believe that long distance walking is the key to health. You should take a look at Taiwanese people, a lot of the elderly people there hike for hours through the moutains even in the rain. I'm only in the mid 20's but these elderly people hike faster than me up moutains
I'm an American, I live close to mountains and would hike up and down mountains, day and night (I especially loved going stargazeing away from civilization) and can walk comfortably with my German freinds.
Ребятки, все фигня ребята)) от моей работы до ближайшей цивилизации 8-10 часов на вахтовке (пассажирский вездеход), а несчастные 15 километров это расстояние, которое я ежедневно прохожу чтобы прогулять своих собак (в городе)
Whoever you are, that is phenomenal! You are truly blessed!
I’m a 26 year old guy and I’ve been going for long walks since 15. Felt a little embarrassed to do it when I was younger cause I didn’t really play a cool sport or anything but it really is one thing that I do almost everyday that I could never give up for anything. Walking is just so awesome. Also my great great great great grandparents came over from Germany so who knows, maybe it’s genetic
as i german i can confirm that i just came back from a 20km morning walk
I don't understand how people do this. That takes around 3 hours, who has that kind of time?
I'd rather hit the gym or go for a 30m run :p
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One hour with the dog in the mornig, works well. 😏
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This must be why I get the sudden urge to walk. Didn’t know it was my German heritage trying to break through
In 1705, the 20-year old Bach walked from Arnstadt to Lübeck - some 250 miles - and stayed nearly three months to hear and meet with Buxtehude, “to comprehend one thing and another about his art”.
my grandmom: "let´s go on a little walk" me who already knows what´s gonna happen: "*packs a backpack with food and drinks*"
So true! I just moved to Germany and I'm hitting the mountain trails with a day pack and walking sticks while the German grandmother's are casually strolling. I even came across an elderly man with a walker going up the mountain.
My son recently spent 5 weeks in Germany. He and another student lived with a host family. The other student could not keep up with the 70 year old "host mother". My son showed me all the walking he did on his phone. His longest day was 24-1/2 km. He loved it there!
I'm German and my best friend who is 62 always walks to my house when he's visiting me... It's almost 40km from his house to mine 😂 (and I'm not kidding... He literally gets up at 5 so he can be at my home in the afternoon)
My grandfather is 84 and he still does his daily walk up 322 stairs and a really long walk up a mountain. This is not to mention the fact that he lives in a 3 story house.
Yes, he is German
"I Know a shortcut" - My grandad who turned a quick walk into something that lasted 14 hours totally got us lost and unsure how to get us back home.
Miss you Granda
Honestly, those are the best trips!
"i know a shortcut" is never a shortcut 😅
We must be related because I'm sure you're talking about my grandfather
Those shortcuts with our beloved ones are called "Memory Lane" ❤... Miss my dad who always knew the best shortcuts 😢❤
after learning that phrase, i knew everytime he brought it up again, i was like: "ok im doomed"
As a German this is the warm up before the actual walk. 😂
Honestly this seems lovely
Never the walk there that gets you.... its the walk back 😂
Perfect song for good ol' German Spaziergang ;-D
Yes, thanks for the Ohrwurm
Dude... Your female costume this time is so good; can't even tell if it's you!
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Many people don't know that, but we do this because in times of peace there's no other countries to march into. So we just randomly hike around our own country.
I never knew I was German. I thought I was just a New Yorker.