By now you should be familiar with the green and yellow Eifelsteig trail marker, but beware that the trail meanders into Belgium for almost half the stretch, and you will be follwing a different trail marker in that country. Instead of the “bend in the trail” you see in Germany, the trail marker is a yellow and green square, yellow on top and green on the bottom half. See the picture to the right.
This isn’t a big deal, most of the time, as the trail is really easy to follow, but sometimes you might forget what it is you are looking for.
The second leg of the trail is wilder than the first. You’ll still be within earshot of roads and civilisation for most of the day, but you will also be walking on quieter gravel country roads and through some wonderful nature reserves. When I had reached the highest point of the day, entering Germany again from a long stretch in Belgium, I stopped for a lunch break. While sitting down and eating, a peregrine falcon flew slowly by, just a meter or two over my head!