Berchtesgaden Day 2.1

Today was an amazing day!! But long! We left the house around 10:30 this morning and didn’t get back till almost 6! We were out all day! And barely any breaks so I was impressed with how well my feet did. Normally without breaks my feet start hurting, but we haven’t been taking breaks like normal on this trip so I guess they are getting used to it!

We woke up to a bit of fresh snow on the ground and incredibly foggy! Worse than yesterday! But after the sun came up the fog started lifting a bit and you could start to see bits of the mountains. Last night when we were sitting here Raymond was like is this place we are staying expensive? Cause like if we wanted to come back and go hiking…and I laughed cause you can’t even see the mountains and he already is ready to come back! Though we have hiked a bit in the area - Königssee is like 4km from the place we are staying and a few years ago on our first campervan trip we stayed there for a few days and did lots of hiking (and it was gorgeous!!).

There was a pamphlet in our place about a historical walking tour that started and ended in Berchtesgaden downtown. It said it was 5km so we were like that would be perfect to do this morning! Yesterday we had seen a pathway up higher in the hills and I was like how do we get up there?? And well you follow this path (or one of the other ones in town)! We started off and spied in the cemetery with the oldest ever Berchtesgaden resident (Anton Adner who lived to 117), then on to the Franciscan church, then stared heading up in the hills. The clouds were starting to clear up a little bit which was nice (they kept clearing up and then coming back again all day). The one pathway that we met up with is the lantern trail with all these lanterns along the way which I enjoyed. The upper pathway was also along the salt brine pipeline path (over 200 years old and carries the salt brine to another town where it is further processed) and had some nice views over town. In the mountain photos the right most mountain (top is still covered in clouds) is where the Eagles Nest is (we hiked up the opposite side last time!)

We only got about halfway through our walking tour when it was getting late for lunch and I was trying to decide if we should continue on or take one of the shortcuts back to town and get some food…it was almost 1 and the rest would probably take an hour and we had to be back to town by 2:30…and 2 was probably going to be too late for me to eat so we decided to go into town and maybe come finish the trail later.

We got some vegan currywurst for lunch which was pretty good. It was right next to the tree topper stand and while waiting I went to spy…and my straw one was no longer there!! So sad for me. I was definitely going to get it as I loved it so much, but oh well. Maybe next time. I did take a photo of the ones they did have and some of the Krampusse are fun, but not as fun as the straw one!Читать далее