Austria – Following your feet

Day 198: Rettenberg to Meilingen

The church bells rang all night. Once at quarter past, twice at half past, three times at quarter to and four times on the hour. On the hour the four chimes were followed by the time of day, twice – so at 5am the bell rang 14 times. But it got worse, at 6am, beyond…

Day 196: Bregenz to Oberstaufen

What a beautiful day. A beautiful stage through the green and rolling hills of the lower Alps. Beautiful weather, sunny with mostly blue skies, no wind and temperatures in the lower 20’s. The Bergenz JUFA offer a very nice and varied breakfast and I was down to enjoy it just after 7 o’clock. I would…

Day 195: Lustenau to Bregenz

Day 18 of this trip and my 195th walking day since leaving Sagres. Today I reached Bregenz which marks the end of the Via Francisca del Lucomagno for me. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the official route ends in Constance in Switzerland, elsewhere on the Lake Constance. Today is a two part walk.…

Day 194: Ruggel to Lustenau

The most noteworthy thing from today’s walk was that I visited three countries. I started in Liechtenstein, walked through Switzerland and ended up in Austria. A first for me. I have never walked in three countries in one day before. Otherwise it was a very uneventful day. I walked 24km and there was 100m of…