Trailhead Heidschnuckenweg (HSW)

First thing in the morning, trying to find a toilet. In the end the hotel I aimed for was closed but at least there were portable toilets. I started listening to the Finanzfluss podcast while walking through endless fields and forest. Once in a while I crossed a road or walked through small villages. In a town I had a long break for stretching, eating and relaxing. Another two hours later I arrived in a small village with a nice hotel I would have loved to stay in, but except for high prices I still wanted to continue to the next town. The hotel had beautiful paintings of beaches, waves and light towers...only a few weeks and I can enjoy it live. I kept walking until the last sunlight and decided to sleep on a pile of tree stems. My spot wasn't bad but my quilt got more and more wet.

In the morning I finished packing my stuff when a woman with two dogs passed by, the dogs being startled by me standing on the tree stems. After 2 hours of forest walk I got to Celle, the trailhead of the HSW with the finish line in Hamburg. After breakfast I continued into the historic part of the town to walk out the same way again and start the HSW with a total length of 222 km.
In the next village I stopped for lunch break and my virtual job interview. Too late I realised I missed a junction and walked in the wrong direction, so I ended up sitting in front of a random house somewhere in the village trying to join the meeting. Of course I had to download an extra App and lost the email with the link somehow. I talked with the human resource manager and the front office assistant and had a good feeling during this time. Right after the meeting a mini bus stopped beside me and two police officers came out revealing a robbery happened a short while ago. After they checked my passport, they wished me good luck on my journey and continued the search. I stretch out my lunch break to process the interview and the encounter with the police.
The next few hours I followed long straight forest roads and paths and listened to the podcast again. A km before my sleeping place there was a farm where I was able to refill my bottle. On the last few hundred meters I also found a portable toilet with toilet paper. I finally arrived at the pavilion with a dark blue sky and the full moon just above the tree tips.もっと詳しく