Notes

De Meinweg is a dutch nature reserve, part of the european nature reserve Maas-Schwalm-Nette, which is named after it’s three most important rivers and spans right across the German-Dutch-border. It’s a beautiful landscape, and even though you don’t see it here, it was full of wanderers and families speaking both languages. Walking along here (on my way back to Dalheim) I realized that re-opening the Iron Rhine, which cuts right through here (to my left on this picture) wasn’t as clearly a good idea as I had thought, for this land would need good protection then.

Then I suddenly got stuck in the mud (which you can’t see here), and found that all diversion routes also were up to half a meter full of mud. In the end, I had to climb up halfway to the railway line again to remain more or less dry. At that point, my opinion changed oddly fast to “Let’s pour concrete over all this, the more the better”. I don’t think I’ll ever make it big at Greenpeace.