Weather:☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️
Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, lunch at a cafe in Wertheim)
Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪 (2 out of 5, somewhat overgrown trail through forest and Wertheim)
Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺⛺ (4 out of 5, flat, grassy spot with toilets, next to the hotel)
Name of followed trail: many different ones, mainly Marienweg and Main Donau weg.
Special mention: The Biergarten at Kloster Bronnbach was already closed, but made us delicious flammkuchen anyway. Thank you for your hospitality!
We wake up to the sound of the church bells. We pack our bags and fit the new bagpacks of Rein and Pepijn, to make the wearing more comfortable. After that we go up the hill to the castle ruins.
From there we follow a somewhat overgrown forest trail to Faulbach, and then back into the forest until Wertheim.
This trail definitely is not the most travelled, so our legs have to endure some wear and tear from nettles and blackberry bushes.
Wertheim is a very pretty medival town, where the Tauber flows into the Main. on the market square we find a café to have lunch.
From there the route follows a detour that goes straight up the hill to the castle, through the forest into the fields.
We find a memorial that tells us that Germany also has roads that were build as a way of emergency relief, like the famine roads in Ireland.
We’re now in an area with a lot of hiking trails. The amount of signs is incredible sometimes! We have a final break before we walk to the monastery of Bronnbach.
In Bronnbach we go into the shop and ask if we can camp here. They send us to the hotel across the road. Ofcourse it’s no problem, and we get send to a nice campsite behind the building. They tell us that the Biergarten is closed, but that we can ask if they want to make something for us. The people at the Biergarten are very kind and offer to make us flammkuchen. Amazing to get this kind of hospitality. People that work overtime to give us some food!
Whilst we are enjoying our food, a man comes over and asked if we’re pilgrims. Mirko (we now know) has walked the Camino and saw fellow hikers in us. We have a good chat, where he tells us that he hiked Assisi in circles in stead of hiking a trail in a straight line. This gives some food for thought to us about the complete mindfuck this would give us, to let go of our Istanbul goal! We enjoy our chat with Mirko and afterwards we go to our campsite. There we drink some schnapps and sit together, before we go to bed.
Grateful for the hospitality we received and the people we met today.