How well you can orientate yourself as an adult also depends on the environment in which you grew up. Country children have a slight advantage – but only on one condition.
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Sebastian Herrmann
After the S-Bahn underpass, the expeditions turned left in the direction of Feld. The field was bordered by another railway line, on which tank trains only very rarely rolled, which disappeared into the forest, where there was a large, underground aviation fuel storage facility, which greatly fired the imagination of the roaming children from the nearby new housing estate. The tracks served as a kind of GPS made of steel, gravel and wooden planks, which helped pass the adventures in the forest. Anyone who got even slightly lost while building a camp, sneaking up to places of fear or looking for climbing trees only had to look for the railway line between the beeches, oaks and spruces and then walk back into the open terrain. The only downside was that the wooden planks of the route were treated with tar, which softened in the summer heat and made the soles of shoes stick together, much to the parents’ later displeasure.