Weather: 🌤️🌤️☀️🌤️🌤️+ 🥵
Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪 (5 out 5, unexpected lunch at the Landshutter haus )
Track: 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 (4 out of 5, nice mountain trail through forest and meadows with beautiful views)
Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌🛌 (4 out of 5, nice modern room with comfortable beds, great value for money!)
Name of followed trail: Main Donau weg
A false start today. We got up at 5.00 to beat the heat, but somehow we were still ‘late’, leaving us both a bit grumpy. That resulted in a quick walk up a demanding hill, to walk off the grumpy energy. That ironically made up some of the ‘lost’ time 😅.
It started with my backpack that tore apart at the frame when I picked it up to leave. Repairing worked out fine, but took time. Other things along the way took more time than expected too. We discussed it and hope to do better next time.
We did enjoy the pretty views at Regensberger stein, and the conversation with the enthusiastic lady that wanted to come along to Istanbul 😂.
In Gotteszell we did a resupply, before we need to go up the hill again. In our grumpy mood, this somehow goes very quickly…. When we’re up near the Landshutter Haus, the grumpyness is forgotten and we enjoy the views again.
The best sight is that of the open umbrella’s on the terrace of the Landshutter Haus! We had read that they were closed, so this is a really good surprise. The food is really good and the service is too, at the completely newly build mountain hut.
From there, the trail is relatively easy going, so we make good progress. We walk through the forest, into the fields and villages where time seems to have stood still.
We find ripe fruits in the trees for us to enjoy and even learn that cherries can be yellow…
Just before Lalling the road goes steep up, so the last kilometer is a sweaty one.
We first get a drink at Tante M, a convenience store with self check out. No personnel so 7 days a week opened. A novelty for Germany!
At our hotel we have a fine room with good beds. We first have a shower and wash our clothes, before we relax a bit and go for dinner. After a good meal, we go back to our room and go to sleep early after a challenging yet good day of hiking.