thirteen kilometres

 A walk over the Moniberg, past the old house on the top of the hill. This is a small farmers house, quite ruinous after all these years. The rent was cheap, this was all right.

This was a snap decision, just to make the walk longer, so as not to spend so much time hanging around the house in the town, This needs to be tidied, but it is so much work alone. The feeling is that it is alone, anyhow. Perhaps there is such a thing as loneliness in company.

The small track leads on after the children's campsite, the trees with the frozen fruit rotten on their branches. Keep up a steady pace, there is a certain amount of pain in the legs, especially after the two steep climbs in the first part of the walk. Pause to take a picture of an empty field and the horizon, the horizon with bare trees and a church. The field has already been smoothed after ploughing, it is waiting for crops for next year.

Mountain bikers have destroyed the paths with their knobbly tyres. They have kneaded the soft ground into a brown pulp, most unpleasant to walk over. After crossing the Schweinebach, climb up again towards the nature reserve. Why that streham is called the "Pig's stream" is quite unclear. The beech and maple trees in the woods are all bare, the ground is golden brown with their leaves. Keep to the principal path today, there is really no wish to go exploring.

Eventually, the path leads downward again, and comes out at the university of Landshut.

Take the path to the river, the one behind the Landshut heating plant, and walk up the river to the café. These are the last four kilometres, and though it is late, there is still a cup of coffee available from the friendly waitress.