We are tired – really tired.
Most of this morning and early afternoon was spent negotiating our way through the urban landscape of Wuertzburg. Now, as urban landscapes go, Wuertzburg is pretty good, well beautiful actually, but when you want to get up a hill and all of the streets run across rather than up, then it can be a tad frustrating. So this morning was spent pounding pavements, with many wrong turns, mostly up hill. The early part of this afternoon was tracking dual carriageways, that even in Wuertzburg are not very pretty, to try to escape the city. Eventually we managed to hit greenery, weaving our way through hillside after hillside of vineyards.
Then, having started at 8:30 and achieved out target distance by 14:30 we had a difficult choice. The next village likely to have accommodation was nearly another 10 kilometres away - way beyond what we should be trying it achieve on our second day, in temperatures still around 30 degrees Celsius. After a long hard think, not fuelled by alcohol, we decided to press on.
Our target Gasthof turned out to have been closed for some time, so we sat down for half an hour, contemplated the options and pressed on for another 2 kilometres, limping into Uettingen at 18:45, from where I now write - 50% further than we ever intended to walk at this stage.
Did I mention that we are tired? Does it show?
Most of this morning and early afternoon was spent negotiating our way through the urban landscape of Wuertzburg. Now, as urban landscapes go, Wuertzburg is pretty good, well beautiful actually, but when you want to get up a hill and all of the streets run across rather than up, then it can be a tad frustrating. So this morning was spent pounding pavements, with many wrong turns, mostly up hill. The early part of this afternoon was tracking dual carriageways, that even in Wuertzburg are not very pretty, to try to escape the city. Eventually we managed to hit greenery, weaving our way through hillside after hillside of vineyards.
Then, having started at 8:30 and achieved out target distance by 14:30 we had a difficult choice. The next village likely to have accommodation was nearly another 10 kilometres away - way beyond what we should be trying it achieve on our second day, in temperatures still around 30 degrees Celsius. After a long hard think, not fuelled by alcohol, we decided to press on.
Our target Gasthof turned out to have been closed for some time, so we sat down for half an hour, contemplated the options and pressed on for another 2 kilometres, limping into Uettingen at 18:45, from where I now write - 50% further than we ever intended to walk at this stage.
Did I mention that we are tired? Does it show?
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