Day 73 Pfeddesheim – Langwaden

Weather:☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, picnic in 2 stages. Stage 1: fruits next to the honesty store and stage 2: bread in the shade next to the trail)
Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (3 out of 5, nice trail through Worms, fields, forest and villages)
Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, nice flat spot in the forest)
Name of followed trail: Vier Länden weg, yellow square 🟨
Special mention: Jörg from Nibelungentee https://www.nibelungentee.de/ for his very friendly service!

We get up after a good night of sleep. After a shower we pack up and go to the bakery across the street for breakfast. The croissants were still warm, happy times!

We walk along the Pfrimm into Worms, the city of the medival Nibelungen Epos.

We’re not going into the city centre, but we are on an important side quest. We visit the Nibelungentee store to get a new tea egg, since I left the other one at the Hühnerhaus. We go into the shop and get a very friendly welcome by Jörg, the owner of the business. He’s surprised by the packs, but quickly understands the issue of a hiker without tea.

I get a tea egg, and off course I bring some tea too. They have a great selection here!

Fully equipped for a few weeks, we leave the store again. We walk through Worms and it’s city vineyards, along the banks of the Rhein. We get a drink in the shade there, before we cross the river.

Crossing rivers, motorways and walking through tunnels to get across something big in the landscape always feels a bit special. Like you are making progress by passing this landmark. We have quite a few of these today, the river being the most important.

We continue our walk through fields, where we sometimes need to time our walking with the sprinklers…

We get into a village where they have a honesty store. The whole grocery store is filled with products and you pay in an honesty box. The fact that these places exist raises my hope for humanity. We can make it work, together! We enjoy our fresh fruits and juice outside, while other customers go in. They come out with my wallet, that I left on the counter. Speaking of honesty..😅♥️ We have a chat with them. They are hikers too.

After this meeting we continue through the village and back into the fields until we skirt the rim of Bibliss, the next village. From there onwards through the fields towards the forest. With all these open spaces, we’re lucky that it’s a little cooler, with a little breeze. It’s quite doable. It does help that it’s flat today.

We see big towers with lors of wires standing near the forest. We fantasize about what on earth it can be, but in the end we think it’s a radio station.

We walk through the forest and get water at a horse stable. They tell us there’s a restaurant nearby. It’s almost on trail, so we make a small detour to have schnitzel I. stead of the couscous that Mark has been carrying for more than a week now… It starts to feel like the magical wraps we had for weeks in England and the Netherlands 😅.

After a great meal. we go back into the forest and look for a good campspot. On our way, we find a huge beetle on the road, a stag beetle! Cool animals, we’d never seen a live one before.

It takes a bit of time to find a good campspot, but we’re happy with the result.

Now we’re in our tent, looking up though the canopy, listening to the barking of the deer. Happy hikers!