I can definitely say with certainty that my time in the Ruhrgebiet has been a fun and enriching experience. To recap my mental state over the journey I’m making a list of 5 ‘Expected’s and the unexpected results in order to keep track of my thoughts going in and coming out of it. The Expecteds: […]

Because I’ve been staying in Essen and it would be too long of a post to run from the Rhine all the way to Unna, I’ve split up my pictures by what’s located west of Essen and what’s located east. So this post is basically between Gelsenkirchen and Unna, but the Metchtenberg landscape park runs […]

Duisburg Sud – Tiger & Turtle Duisburg is one of the largest cities in the Ruhr Region. Its industrial past is especially prominent due to its location along the Rhine River and the large industrial port is still used today. The Tiger & Turtle installation, located across from the Befesa Zinc Factory along the Rhine […]

  There’s a variety of bike trails throughout the Ruhr Region, from KulturKanals ‘Emscher Park’ which rides past the points on the Ruhr Route of Industrial Hertitage, to the Emschergenosenschaft’s ‘Emscher-Weg’ which rides close to the River Emscher beginning at Holzwickende to the mouth of the river at Dinslaken. New trails are developing all the […]

This blog post is brought to you by a rainy day in which I went out, got off the train, and started biking towards the place I wanted to go until I realized it was raining MUCH harder than I thought it would be. Then all of a sudden the chain of the bicycle I […]

I’ve since been exploring the west portion of the region near the Rhine River, but I’m backed up on blog posts. Shortly before landing I read an excerpt from JB Jackson’s ‘A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time’ about the American landscape and use of the phrase ‘a sense of place’. Despite a common […]