Category: E11 (Long-distance hiking path)

E11: Zappendorf – Gutenberg

Saturday, March 31: Drizzle to begin with and lasting until about midday, cloudy thereafter & quite cold

Hiking: 32.8 km

Nico’s

There was a bit more time this morning as more trams ran on a Saturday and I knew my way around the main station by now. A tram directly from the square seemed to want another couple of minutes so I wandered down to Franckeplatz and there had a few minutes to wait as well. Distances between stops seem to be very short here.

A variation on trams arriving at the station was with the line I took this morning – it went up the hill and stopped between the entrance to platform 1 and the bus station. This entailed a little detour to get my bread rolls but it was done in good time. Read more…

E11: Eisleben – Zappendorf

Friday, March 30: Sunny but very cold to begin with; becoming somewhat warmer during the day

Hiking: 24.6 km

Nico’s

As breakfast was not on the menu here I decided to be up just before 8:00 to see if I could make sense of the trams to get to the station, buy some breakfast and a ticket & leave on the 8:57 to Eisleben.

Almost immediately there was a tram waiting which I took. First stop on board was the ticket machine which coughed up a reasonably priced ticket. Then to make sense of the maze of lines and work out where to change for the station. There was a relatively good guiding system (complete map with diodes lit in various colors to highlight the route) and conclude I would have to change after two stops at Franckeplatz. There was a longer wait there (practically a Sunday) or the last three stops to the station. A tram to the station pulled up eventually and just before getting on I checked the ticket & realised it still had to be validated! Did do immediately but it might look strange to an inspector. Fortunately there were none. Read more…

E11: Wippra – Eisleben

Wednesday, March 28, 2018: Cloudy in the morning, turning to rain in the late afternoon and evening

Rüssel Pub, Wilhelm-Koenen-Str. 57A, 06526 Sangerhausen, spacious, modern single room with breakfast, amenities down the hall (share with only one other room), €29.8

I had everything together, including the jacket, headwear and gloves in case things should become any colder and was a bus too early to the station. The train was forecast late one minute by the time I had gotten down to the platform, but that would be survivable if it wasn’t DB. As it was, the delay was two minutes in the end and I could get my connections, which were quite numerous today. ICE to Göttingen where I ran across Richard on his way out; local trains for changing in Eichenberg, Leinefelde, and finally in Sangerhausen a bit of a bus tour with two lines needed to get me to the southwest of town where this place is. Went past a supermarket which I later visited. Read more…

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