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Nine in the morning,  start walking through town and down to the lesser river. It is foggy, people just appear out of the murk. Some are on bicycles and a few are running, but most are just walking.

There is a heron on the flood plain, but the stupid bird just flies away. It is probably a camera shy animal.

Try to take pictures in the fog, but it is not so easy. It is hard to tell exactly what the camera is recording, the light is so diffuse.

Smell the change in the air approaching the lake, and hear the sound of the birds. All the honking and the quacking.

The aim was to go down to Niederaichbach and cross the bridge there and return on the other side of the river

The fog clears just before the bridge, there is one of the last nuclear power plants in Germany. It has a colossal cooling tower. Circle the power plant and return to the river. Cross the bridge and walk upriver, circling the large reservoir.

The sun has set in Landshut now. 

It was a long day, a long walk.

A twenty mile walk. Or a thirty kilometre walk.

And it was tiring.