We were invited to spend a wonderful autumn Saturday at a colleague’s place a couple of weeks ago. The agenda of the day was to hike a small part of the Palatinate forest located in the southwestern of Germany. In order to reach this place, we had to snake through some tunnels and drove along highways which crisscrossed right through the scenic forest. I hadn’t been to this part of Germany before and I think I’d found my calming retreat from the everyday life. Tall looming pine trees greeted us along the way and the excited chatters of my colleagues’ kids were occasionally punctuated by the distant pecking of woodpeckers.Everywhere around us was all wood, greens and soft, damp earth. Very tranquil, very peaceful. We met some fellow hikers along the way and apparently a hiking marathon was going on during that day and from what I gathered the hiking marathon trail was 40km long! Our trail was rather modest compared to the marathon and our aim was to reach this sunken cave, formed by massive boulders and rocks. The view from inside the cave was wonderful. My highlight of the day was when these super cute kids of my colleagues’ saying Spaghetti! in unison for the camera. That’s German version of saying ‘Cheese’ when posing I guess .