Well this is embarressing!
It wasn't the usual end to a day out walking in the country.
Last Thursday, journalist Riham Alkousaa was on a hiking holiday, walking with a group through the mountainous wooded region of Saxon Switzerland, in the eastern German state of Saxony.
But when she got back to her hostel, she found that police officers were waiting for them.
Someone had called the police, saying that "a group of foreigners" had been spotted.
The caller reported them as migrants who were supposedly trying to cross the border from nearby Czechia illegally.
But Ms Alkousaa was out walking with a registered German hiking club whose members are mostly Syrians living in Germany.
She is an award-winning journalist who works for Reuters. Originally from Syria, she is a German citizen, who graduated from Columbia University in New York. For the past 10 years she has worked for many German and American publications.
The Syrians she was hiking with all work or study in Germany legally.
Saxony police told the BBC that a German citizen contacted regional police on Germany's emergency number 110, having spotted the hiking group near the border, and suspecting that the group might be being smuggled across the border.
Regional police then passed on the information to the federal police force who sent officers to the region to patrol, where they found the hikers.
Having checked the hiking group's documents which proved the whole group was in Germany legally, police said they ended the operation. Read the full story here.