08:22: Washed and dressed (in slightly damp socks) and sitting eating breakfast of little Lidl bread rolls with ham and cheese. It’s another beautiful sunny day.
09:20: Packed and ready to go, except for one last biological function.
09:40:30
09:40:55
10:01: A short hike up a hill to Ising.
10:15: Out of Ising and past a golf course into the forest and shade.
10:32:00
10:33:59
10:46: The meadows on either side of the path are sizzling with grasshoppers.
10:46: Hart.
10:49:12
10:49:43
11:08:32
11:13: Leaving Hart.
11:15:03
11:21:23
12:05: Matzing. Switched maps. There may be a supermarket here where I can buy lunch and dispose of dead batts.
12:08: No, there isn’t.
12:11: Leaving Matzing.
12:16: Traunwalchen.
12:27:17
12:58: I found a little supermarket and now I’m having a picnic of bread rolls, butter, tzaziki, tomatoes, cheese, apple, butter and chocolate biscuits.
13:34: Moving again.
13:48: Niedling.
14:20:43
14:21: Into a forest, after a baking stretch through fields.
14:23:41
14:23:49
14:59:47
15:02:24
15:05: Hofbauer. Stopping for a drink — the first since lunch.
15:13:49
15:16: Tettleham. Stunning views of the mountains and village church spires as I walk directly towards the mountains for the first time. They’re getting nearer.
15:16:11
15:21:05
15:21:50
15:50: Sprinzenberg.
15:50:30
16:12:26
16:12:34
16:22: Entering Waging.
17:05:17
17:54: Musbach campsite 150m.
18:05: About to get registered.
18:11: €10.00. Setting up. Plenty of mosquitoes.
20:38:15
20:39:02
21:36: I’m about to get into the bag. I had a lovely hour or two sitting by the lake as the sun went down. The proprietor offered me a beer when he heard I was walking to Istanbul, but I declined. He was disappointed — it was a local brew. Instead, his wife gave me a one litre bottle of apple juice that I’m turning into schorle.