Category: Hiking

  • How a simple bench can provide a great view.

    Singapore is known for solid and formidable benches. There might be a bit of a concern about the locations and number of benches in certain places, but you can trust me there are a lot of nice benches around the island. Some of those great benches are placed, I hope not consciously, right in the…

  • Hartmut’s Bench

    On 30th December 2016 I went for a hike to Tegernsee. The weather was beautiful, I planed to go for one of the favorite short tracks, have a walk of about 1 hour and enjoy a Weißbeer on the Neureuth Terrace. When I arrived there, it was crowded like hell, so I decided to walk…

  • The Queen of the Djungle

    The Queen of the Djungle

    Despite living so close to the Kentridge Park, we haven’t made a walk in it for quite some time. Somehow over Christmas  the whole family was ready to revive our past time activity. Kentridge Park has one of the most spectacular tree top boardwalks in Singapore. One can have a really nice view across the…

  • The benches of Doi Mon Cham

    The benches of Doi Mon Cham

    Doi means “hill” in the Thailanguage.  Mon Cham is a rather famous hill in the region of Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. There are many reasons why Doi Mon Cham is so famous.  It is cool up there, those who suffered under the heat of Chiang Mai, can imagine, what that means for the people…

  • Kramerplateau Addition

    I went again to the Kramerplateau trail and realized that we missed the one or the other bench in the last post. First of all, there was a new bench build. A dedication to Erika with some wisdom of Winnie the Pooh.   Then I also realized that there were a couple of bird houses which were…

  • Somewhere in The “Allgäuer” Alps.

    The “Allgäu” is one of the most beautiful areas in Germany. The Allgäu Alps (German: Allgäuer Alpen) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, located in Bavaria in Germany and Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The range lies directly east of Lake Constance. Some Germans can afford to own a little summer residence…

  • World Heritage Hallstatt

    Hallstatt is world-famous … since the bronze age, when our ancestors found super-sized caves and salt in the mountains around the Hallstatt Lake. Also today you can enjoy the view of the gorgeous area, sitting in the small niche shown above. I recommend a visit 🙂

  • Breckenridge dedications

    As hoped and expected Annette provided two other benches from Colorado 😉 The first one is from Breckenridge, which is an old gold mining city within the ski arena of  Vail. I guess todays gold is the snow. The bench is dedicated to Michael Thomas Davidson. The second bench is also a dedication bench, dedicated to Ben Clark. A quite…

  • Kramerplateau Weg Benches

    What a wonderful leisure walk Kramerplateauweg is an easy walk of about one and a half hours along the upper close edges of Garmisch. For those who don’t know, Garmisch was once the host of the Winter Olympic Games. Once in a while one can look down the sloops on majestic Garmisch. An unknown number…

  • Colorado, Vail – Korst Family

    We crossed the Atlantic. Seems my talk in the office about benches was fruitful. Annette, one of my colleagues is currently in Colorado, Vail on vacation. And she donated a dedication bench to this blog.  I am still curious about the view from that bench. I could not yet find anything about the Korst Family…

  • Benches behind bushes and in the woods

    Finally we got the story around the beautiful benches, which I posted some time ago. An american lady, Wilhelmina Busch born in 1887, widowed three men in her live. Two Germans and one American ( Mr. Woods).  This lady, living her adult live in Germany was crazy about the idea of owning a castle. She…

  • Jas Hill in Otterfing

    When visiting our good friend Jutta in Holzkirchen (south of Munich) we went for a short walk around the Jags Hill (she insisted on only 30 min 😉 ) we passed by this bench. A very nice scenery with the little church in the back, the meadow with yellow flowers and the blooming cherry trees.…

  • Dukes fish farm benches

    There is another great place in the Bavarian Alps which is called Wildbad Kreuth. As the name indicates it was originally a Spa. Pretty famous in its best times. Build by Maximilian I. King of Bavaria, visited by Emperors and Russian Tsars, today owned by the Dukes of Bavaria. Close to this place there is the Dukes…

  • A view on Lake Spitzing 

    How can you deeply enjoy a view at nature, if there is no bench around, to rest and look and watch without being disturbed by the discomfort of standing along the shore. As you may have assumed, this is a very traditional bench, which  allows us to sit and rest and look over the shores…

  • Just Beauty

    Just Beauty

    Sorry this time I have nothing to say about the benches featured in this post. Those benches are just beautiful. A friend has sent the pictures to me. I do not even know, where those benches are living their life.

  • Huts’n benches

    Huts’n benches

    “Seven Huts” hut – “Siebenhütten” Hütte Google Map: Siebenhütten Tavern, Near Kreuth Did you ever had this feeling, when you needed a place to let your soul slowing down and get pampered by simply sitting at a place, which seem to be made by someone who knows what humans need to feel great with themselves?…

  • Badbank

    Another great contribution from Kille. I guess we need to sort this bench under the exception benches since the definition does not work for the first criteria, “comfortable seating”. Nevertheless, the bench has more than deserved to show up here. For sure the first criteria has applied in the past and the view has some mystery.…

  • Laubbank at 51.999522 / 9.252539

    Another extraordinary contribution from a new bencher. When telling my good old friend Kille (Friedrich-Wilhelm Reineke in real life) from the bench blog, the enthusiasm was nordic-exited. This was back when the Alp de Siusi bench-series was born. Not much reaction since then. However, the topic came up again when he visited Munich in March…

  • Chaiselongue am Alatsee

    It seems that it became too dangerous for our bench-war-correspondent to continue the investigation on the unknown bench builder(s) along the S6 in Munich. So Karoline took a break to relax from the dangerous and exhaustive detective work and she found a bench which truly invites for a relaxing break – the one and only…

  • Opposite Alpe di Siusi – Latzfoner Cross

    Here is a contribution from my colleague Karoline. Obviously she is a fan of South Tirol. And specifically of the Plattkofel. She even went to the other side of the Alpe di Siusi to have a better view onto the Plattkofel. And indeed the view is just great.