Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, good lasagna and 2 big glasses rabarber schorle!)
Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 🤩 (4 out of 5 + 1 happy face for the amazing views!, the rest was a great forest trail)
Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ ( 3 out of 5, nice, grassy spot between the fields)
Name of followed trail: X Hundsrückverein
We sleep in a little after the long day yesterday. We take it slow today, since it’s again a very warm day. we start with a downhill track through the forest with some good views, and get to a surprise cafe that opens 15 minutes after our arrival. This means bonus refreshments!
After a good break we continue uphill along a trail with nice wooden bridges and some cool looking faces cut into the trees.
After that, we go downhill towards Stromberg where we have a good lunch, with lasagna! After the lunch we say goodbye to Marleen who decided to walk along for half days, since the weather and hills proved a bit too much… She takes the bus to Dalberg where we will meet again.
From Stromberg we hike uphill again along a cool looking mountain bike trail. After that we make a turn and the trail disappears. it takes us some bush whacking to find the trail again!
With this ‘struin’ (wander) through forest and broom, we almost feel like we’re at AOT (scouts hiking event we join every year). We miss you guys!
We find the trail again with some effort. Clearly not many people take this road to Istanbul!
We get to a great viewpoint and continue towards Dalberg through the fields in the hot afternoon sun. On the way we pass a farm shop stall where they sell ice cream ! What a great way to cool down a bit! From there we walk down into Dalberg.
Here we get water and meet up with Marleen again! We get up the hill to find a campsite. In a grassy field we find a good spot.
We have a good couscous meal before we go to bed.