Wasserbillig to Trier reverse hike with shopping 🛍️ and food 🍗

With the Germany month is coming up we will do a discovery hike at the Oberbillig Grillhütte 🥓🥩🍗 to see if it's going to be suitable for our BBQ in August. The Dinant hike is sadly cancelled, Mullerthal D is done, the hiking schedule is quite full for next month so let's do this now.

This is a longer hike for those who are up for the challenge (we will do a shortened 15km version of this in August). There will be no actual BBQ this time but to compensate for that there will be delicious food and drinks when we hit Trier. I come up with this custom 28km trail with 🔺 969m 🔻 elevation.

It is not as difficult as it seems, the trail has 3 climbs, at the Mattheiser wood we reach the highest point which is only 390m, it's all downhill from there until Trier HBF.

https://www.alltrails.com/explore/map/konz-to-wasserbillig-9f396fe?u=m&sh=4kcjgp

The hike adjoins 4 nice different forest areas (Perfeist, Roscheid, Mattheiser Wald, Petrisberg) takes us through the hills with amazing scenery to the Moselle region. Upon arriving to Wasserbillig we will take the ferry to the other side, Oberbillig and climb the first hill to the Grillhutte.

After this we proceed towards Konz, those who had enough can exit here after about 10km and take the train back to Lux from the Kreuz-Konz station.

The ferry operates from 11:00 am on the weekend so we will adjust our start to that. No need to look for schedule, it literally comes and goes in every 15 minutes. Bring 1 EUR cash for the ferry, otherwise instead of Oberbillig the boatmen will take you to hell. 😈

Start time: 11:02 Wasserbillig, take the fast train RE5115 towards Trier HBF (leaving GC at 10:33) which gets to WB by this time. We take the ferry right away and get on with the hike. Those who come with car can easily find parking spots next to the station just make sure you get there before us as we are on the clock.

End time: around 16:45 Trier HBF, on this one we are expected to be moving a bit faster with about 5 km/h pace, as I like to say no need to run but we need to move, there is no lunch break planned, please eat before coming the food is at the end.

Most of the stores are open until 18:00 hence we should get there at least 1 hour before to be able to do some shopping, point of interests:

• Intersport Trier (open until 18:00)
• Jack Wolfskin Trier (open until 18:00)
• Tkmaxx Trier (open until 20:00)

If we are slacking we simply cut off the last 6km (instead of going into Mariahof we head straight into Trier through Heiligkreuz). The plan is upon arrival everybody can do the shopping in the city on their own for 1 hour (those who want to leave can do so already as we will end the hike close to the Trier HBF) then we meet up for dinner at the best restaurant in town: https://www.kistetrier.de/

After that we can head over the Irish pub, from there Trier HBF is about 15 minutes walk, there are trains until midnight.

The weather looks quite pleasant 24C max ⛅, cloudy for the day which is just ideal for a longer hike like this.

I expect low participation as we are in the middle of the summer holiday season, the hike will be kept regardless how many signs up.

Have a nice rest of the week and see you on Saturday. 🚶‍♀️🚶