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(Three months on the road!)
Awake at 07:00, but I didn’t get up until 08:00. I showered and washed yesterday’s tee and jocks. I’d washed yesterday’s socks last night. I washed them with soap and hot water and I was shocked at the brown juice that came out of them.
Now I’m sitting having breakfast. I have to do quite a bit of running around today.
Consumables:
- soap
- toothpaste
- toothbrush
- shampoo
- deodorant
Camping gear:
- Find and buy a lightweight summer sleeping bag
- Pack and post the old one home
Navigation:
- Find and buy maps to get me to Salzburg
Rendezvous:
- Figure out where I’m likely to be by the beginning of next month for Aisling (3 July)
- Figure out where I’m likely to be by 21-22 July for David
Over the last three months, I’ve averaged 544 km/mo. That’s 18.15 km/day.
Aisling arrives in 18 days. I could cover 324 km in that time. I’ll be somewhere between Salzburg and Villach.
Crossing from Austria into Slovenia can be done over the Wurzen pass.
Radendorf to Kranjska Gora: “Low, easy uneventful”.
I want to cross the Alps on a hiking trail, though.
Augsburg to Salzburg: 207 km (by road)
Augsburg to Villach: 378 km (by road via Munich and Salzburg)
David arrives in 38 days. In that time I can cover 684 km.
I could be in Banja Luka (626 km as the crow flies). Likely I’ll be somewhere between Zagreb (478 km) and Banja Luka.
11:55:44
11:57:27
12:17: €70 for a new lightweight sleeping bag. Now on a mission to pack and post the old one home.
13:14:36
13:27: Sitting down to lunch in Augsburg Kebab und Pide Haus. Mixed salad and lentil soup.
13:51:01
14:37: I’m zapped. I was drifting off reading my book. I think I’ll get an early night tonight. I need to book in for another night so I get to see the tourist sights here and plan my journey onwards.
14:55: Back at the hostel. I’m going to snooze for an hour.
17:04: That was necessary! I slept for almost two hours. I’m going to pack the sleeping bag now. Aisling’s probably going to fly into Zagreb around the 16/17 July.
17:11:25: Three-season sleeping bag in the left, new summer sleeping bag on the right.
18:14:17
18:30: Back from town where I spent €20 on maps to get me to München, then back to the hostel and out for dinner with Shahbaz and a drink in the evening sun on the town square. We walked home at dusk.
