Weather:☁️⛅🌧️⛅⛅
Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, flammkuchen at a beautiful spot, in an unfriendly restaurant)
Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🥵 (4 out of 5 and 1 pfooh for some steep tracks)
Trail markings:❓❓❓❓(4 out of 5 question marks, because we’ve only seen a handful of markers that we’re supposed to guide us. So we mainly used the watch for navigation today)
Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ ( 3 out of 5, nice spot in the forest, a bit sloped though!)
Name of followed trail: X Hundsrückverein
After a good breakfast we leave our apartment and get back on trail. It takes a bit of searching to get out of Koblenz, because the new markers we follow just aren’t there. We first see them after our first steep climb into the forest around the city. Well se a few more today, but not nearly enough to mark our way. Hopefully this will get better tomorrow, because we’re following this trail for a few days.
Markers or no markers, the trail is really nice. We enjoy the steep track up and the views we get! After that we have some fields , before we get back into the Woods again.
After 14 km we get to a beautiful viewpoint at a (unfortunately closed) restaurant. A bit further down, on an equally pretty viewpoints, we find a restaurant that’s open. It’s not the best place, but the view is good and the food is ok. The waitress at some point has an argument with a customer over the salad he ‘stole’ from the salad bar… We’re happy that we’re not part of the discussion, but we leave as soon as our flammkuchen is finished.
From there we walk down a steep track under the chairlift. We have some brief conversations with the British teens that are in the chairlift.
The track gets us into Boppard, a pretty town along the Rhein.
We go for some coffee and look at the rain that falls when we’re inside the bakery. This is probably the last rain we’ll see in a while, because the next week the sun will come out, according to the weather forecast.
We walk through Boppard (birthplace of the inventor of the Wiener cafe chair) and climb steeply up the hill into the forest. After the climb, we go across fields to the outskirts of Boppard and get some water there. After that, we walk back into the woods and find ourselves a spot for the tent.