Sunday, July 22: A little cooler to begin with and quite cloudy. A ray of sun during the day and a drop of rain, sunny and warm towards evening
Hiking: 31.9 km
René’s
I was up fairly early for a breakfast of a yoghurt and a cup and a half of the litre packet of iced coffee (and the fridge had certainly made it quite icy), and then to prepare two bread rolls with Saxon Leberkäse for lunch. I was ready to go at 8:45, got to the station quite quickly, bought a ticket, and got into the train for the first section, and after arriving in Köthen had to wait nearly an hour for the connecting train (can’t this be done better?) for the last three-minute trip. I had my ipod with me and so was able to listen to all of the rest of the podcasts, then the next train was there and it spat me out one station later.
I had the entire trip noted in great detail today, because there was no promise yet of the signs returning. Rival football fan clubs had postered every lamppost in Arensdorf with their stupid stickers, so there was no chance of anything official or otherwise surviving. Found the way particularly easily in Pfriemsdorf and beyond, then at the road construction site it took me a while to find a continuing path, and when I did it was correct because it soon led beside Zehmigkau and onto Quellendorf, where I stopped for lunch. Looking back at the GPS track this was a bit of a miracle because part of the path had been completely removed and replaced by a new path at the construction site, and it was only rough and ready orientation (under cloud) that led to any success. Read more…
