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This post is about a 24km walk from Viehhausen to Taglaching. I walk through forests and alpine landscapes, and I have a pistachio croissant.

Everything was wet but my stuff wasn’t. The evening before I had asked at a random farm if I could pitch my tent on their property. “Sure”, they had said, and I had picked a spot somewhere under an overhanging roof.

A smart choice, as it turned out. Because of the rain.

mosquitoes

I packed up my things and walked a bit until I was in a forest. It was very quiet, except for the ever-buzzing sound of the mosquitoes. Bzzzz, they went as they were feasting on my blood, bzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz. For some reason I didn’t mind very much.

After the forest I reached Pfaffing, a town that had a supermarket. I was hungry, and I really wanted something cold to drink. So I went into a shopping frenzy.

going chaupin

Sometimes the sensible thing to do is to not take a shopping basket. That way, the amount of things that you can buy is automatically limited by your ability to carry.

I bought a bunch of bananas, an avocado, a bread roll, a can of bread spread, a pack of chocolate chip cookies, a cold bottle of coke, and a pistachio croissant. Then I gathered my treasures and walked out of town.

lunch

After a while I arrived at a tree that stood in the middle of some fields. It cast a big shadow. A few tractors were cutting down the harvest in the distance. They seemed to be pulling little plumes of dust behind them. Six or seven birds of prey were circling in the sky. Again I felt reminded of alpine landscapes.

This is the place, I thought to myself as I sat down and poured a cup of tea.

Lunch was glorious.

pictures

the walk from Viehhausen to Taglaching:

camp on a farm in Viehhausen

farm house near Wasserburg am Inn

alpine vista near Wasserburg am Inn

forest crossroads

Caboose on a forest road near Wasserburg am Inn

I sit next to golden marguerites

Jesus in a field

roofing tiles

The Longest Way on a forest road

country church in Bavaria

decorations for a kid

birds of prey

pistachio croissant

cloud cover over the road

the Caboose in a forest

farm houses with mountains behind them

rider and horse

alpine scenery near Taglaching

forest road without a bike lane

road to Taglaching

Toni’s farm in Taglaching

Toni’s garage

the vacant apartment