Unspectacular

Need a insider tip? Alright, but then for true connoisseurs. The kind of insider tip that really stays a secret. We're heading to Hönow.

Hönow? For outsiders, it's probably a small Bohemian village. That's actually not far off, it's a name of Slavic origin with the ending ...ow, like Rudow, Treptow, Karow. But even most locals may only have a vague idea: 'Hönow? Isn't that where the U5 goes?'

Until recently, the U5 was the only true East Berlin subway line running from Alexanderplatz to the northeastern corner of the capital. However, for future generations of tourists, it will be the ultimate subway line of the capital. When arriving at Hauptbahnhof, they will find a brand new connection that goes directly to Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag, Unter den Linden, and Museum Island. There, they will find the most beautiful subway station in the city with a deep blue starry sky.

But as long as it is not yet open, we will continue our trip, and on the way, we will pass the Tierpark. This is the counterpart to the Zoological Garden in the east, a real alternative, beautifully landscaped and very spacious. Here, there are no big pandas, the black-and-white kind, but rather small mostly brown pandas. And here, Herta, the no longer so small polar bear, and a beautiful rhino calf live.

Hönow is very unspectacular around the corner. The subway station is located in Berlin, the place is part of the municipality of Hoppegarten ('Where do they run?') in the Märkisch Oderland district (MOL) in Brandenburg. The 'Wuhle-Hönow-Weg', with a length of 3.9 kilometers, leads through the 'Hönower Weiherkette', which is characterized by the fact that the ponds largely manage without water. So, we actually have a chain of basins with an idyllic mixture of forests and meadows, birch trees here and blackberry bushes there. On the right, the main traffic road Landsberger Allee/Berliner Straße makes noise, on the left, there seems to be a lot of affordable housing in the form of panel buildings through the trees.

After almost four kilometers, we reach the Wuhle. Here, we could easily walk another 12 kilometers to Köpenick. It might even be much more beautiful than the distance we've walked so far. But that's a different story.