Going for a walk with a German 🇩🇪🚶🏼‍♂️

[katherinemcintosh]

😂 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.😃❤️

[henkharlekin]

As a german I can confirm that 19 km are the warm-up.

[thefucrew]

I did that with a German girl that I liked.
She tried to leave me behind, but I had completed plenty of long road marches during my military career at that time, so I ended up sticking with her.
She was impressed when we finished and I was still with her.
She was also in the military, German military.
It was a very "interesting" deployment for me.
Have never forgotten her.
She passed away in a car accident in '96.
May she Rest In Peace. 😪

[AltIng]

The trick is: Don't stop. 😊 If you come into a kind of trance you can walk ... its meditation.

[thegravellesstraveled]

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 🤣

[sarar]

My favorite thing about enjoyable videos like this is in the comments, reading the stories people relate to this and what memory this brings up for them.

[GoldenSuperKamichu]

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.

[goferboy]

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

[hellmalm]

As a Scandinavian I feel you Germans, walking is so relaxing and refreshing.

[Blxz]

Was doing a 1400km hike in southern Japan that took weeks of planning to organise and just ran into some random german boy scouts doing the same trail for a bit of fun in their off time.

[ezenwish]

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!😅

[graysnake]

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

[abqannie]

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.

[Galaxy_Spinner]

My grandparents were German, and they would do this to us even in their 70s! You brought back happy memories. Thank you! ❤

[Mello-]

This is the perfect song for this video

[simonecrisci]

As an italian, i can walk 5 minutes to take a coffe

[pascalf]

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

[kimers]

This song makes me cry every time I listen to it. 😢
I miss my Man who would come running to sing me this song every time it came on, he’s in heaven now.

[ThatOneCanadian-xguk]

As a French, I can confirm that they walk over to us

[ardianhesa]

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