Weather:🌧️☁️☁️☁️🌧️
Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, nice bread from the bakery in Crailsheim, on a dry spot at a barn)
Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through fields and villages)
Milestone: 35 km today, my leg injury seems truly healed🙏
Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌🛌 (4 out of 5, spacious room with great bed and a good shower)
Name of followed trail: Jagst steig, E8
Special mention: Reins hiking pole will accompany us to Istanbul, so we now have a set of 4 different hiking poles again, each with their own story. Hopefully they’ll all make it to Istanbul!
We get up early to repack our bags. We were supposed to have our zeroday in Crailsheim, but since there wasn’t much to find here, we decided a few days ago that we would walk in until Dinkelsbühl. That’s a 35 km walk, so we’ll be pushing ourselves a bit again.
To motivate us, the road signs already have Turkey on the plates 😉😂.
After a decent breakfast, we say goodbye to Rein and Pepijn. From Rein we get one of his hiking poles, to replace my broken one. So now we have my 20 year old die-hard Black diamond hiking pole, Marks new Irish hiking pole, our gift from Adrigole and Reins hiking pole. A fair set of stories, in the form of 4 different hiking poles. I hope they will all last for at least 4900 km more….
We walk through Crailsheim and go up the hill behind the city. From there we have a walk through fields and villages with dark sky’s above our heads. Surprisingly it stays (Irish) dry the whole day, exept for the moment when we’re having lunch in Mistlau. Luckily there’s a barn across the road where we can finish our lunch sheltered from the rain. It’s dry
when our lunch is finished. I guess you could call that ‘being lucky with the weather’ … 😅😁
We walk another 10 km to Wildenstein, where we are even more in luck, this time with a milk tap. We get ourselves a cold glass of milk (this time without spilling half because we now know there is also a stop button..😅😂) and continue to the bakery in the village. Here we have a snack, so we can walk our final 11 km to Dinkelsbühl.
We walk past a church with a peculiar graveyard https://www.segringen-evangelisch.de/kirche-u-friedhof/
4 kilometers before Dinkelsbühl, the rain catches up with us. We’ve been blowing at the clouds, singing positive songs to them, but in the end the rain comes down. Luckily, we can still laugh about it, especially when we walk into Rain. So we we’re singing in (the) Rain 😂😂😂☔☔☔ Happy, crazy and wet we walk into Dinkelsbühl.
At the hotel, we find out that we got an upgrade in room. Lucky us! The room is great; lots of space, good bed and good shower.
We get clean and dry, unpack our bags into a full size gear explosion and go for a good, slightly luxurious meal at the Alten Deutsches Haus.
I’m loving the meal, but I have to skip dessert, because I almost fall asleep at the table.
Time for a zeroday!