Exhausting

 Start the walk today as regularly as ever. Oh, take those two poached eggs for breakfast again. A simple delight, along with a cup of coffee.

The walk is normal up to the point of leaving the park. Passing the house of the camera collector go up to the small church with the round spires instead. Arrive there early for a funeral, and receive a strange look from one of the bereaved, perhaps because all the walking clothes are black. The warm jacket bought at C&A is black, they sold them in no other colour.

Leave the buildings of Landshut behind and go on down into the valley to Salzdorf, a tiny village with a restauraunt, a wine dealer, and a carpentry firm to its name. Highly industrialised, if you like to call it that. Climb up through the forest, there is another one of those metal crosses by the side of the path on the way. At the top of the hill there is a wide view over the country, it could be possible to see the Alps from here on a clear day. There is too much haze near the ground now for that. Go on through the forest, speculating as to what kind of wildlife had left the tracks in the frozen mud.

There is a building ahead, surrounded by a secure wire fence with barbed wire strands on the top. Going by the piles of manure-fouled straw and the general smell it is a farm keeping cows, maybe for dairy their dairy use. Skirt around the outside of the farm and carry on through the forest. There is a very much more impressive fence here now,  with several multi storey buildings behind a high wall. There are video cameras everywhere. This must be the prison, now the exact location is clear. Skirt around the prison walls and end up on an immaculately tarred road. It is so smooth that you could definitely roll an egg over it without breakage. This leads to a main road with heavy traffic.

Wait to cross, and on the other side, there is a small opencast mine where bentonite is being dug out of the ground. There is a notice saying that the whole area will be renatured after the mining operation has finished.

The view from up here is quite tremendous, it is considerably higher than any of the other vantage points reached on these walks to date.

After this take the usual walk on down  to the river, past the town of Schweinebach.

The walk today was fifteen kilometres, not as far as on other days, but at least as exhausting.