Arrondissement de Sarreguemines

Day 34:
Distance: 34.52 km (1,140.52 km)
Steps: 49,165 (1,628,815)
Move time: 7h48 (259h38)
Spend: £7.79 (£493.53)

🇫🇷 Bettviller to Dambach. 🇫🇷

After the glories of having to sleep on another bench, this time in the lit square of Bettviller, I got my stiff limbs moving again for the day as soon as possible, with just a hint of dawn on the horizon. An early morning shuffle through the hills of the Regional Nature Park of the North Vosges then brought me to Bitche, home to an impressive 13th century citadel and, more importantly, a 21st century McDonalds. After extensive unwinds at both, I eventually said goodbye to the bitches, and made a nerve-wracking straddle through the nearby French military encampment. The woods which followed were eerily still, almost unsettlingly so, with the only noise being the occasional crescendo of machine gun fire echoing between the trees. It made it easy to imagine the scenes that might've unfolded here should Germany have ever invaded the French Maginot line, for which there are literally hundreds of abandoned bunkers littering the region.Les mer