All roads lead to Rome: Day06: Ettal

I made friends with the monks and they even wanted me to stay for another day, but the road was calling me so loud, that I even had to skip breakfast.

As I went south, I painfully realized, that it's now getting more and more important to consider the slope while choosing the route. So I climbed a hill on a steep path, but half way down again I was rewarded with a breathtaking view onto Farchau, Burgrain and Garmisch-Patenkirchen and all the mountains behind them, including Germany highest: Zugspitze.

In Garmisch I stopped for lunch, then climbed up to Wamberg (1304 m), just to realize, that I would rather prefer the hard cyclist road in the vally than hiking more hills.

Down there to my joy I found the marks of the route Via Romea again. There the outher layer of one of my shoe soles was about to fall apart, but I didn't have time to fix it, because rainclouds were moving faster. It was kind of boring and exhausting on that road, until I met some funny young men in strange blue trikots with hand-pulled wagons. When I asked them, what they were doing, they shared their food with me and explained that they are on their "Tour de Bier". I wasn't wondering too much about that. Welcome to Bavaria! So I finally got rid of the weight on my back by putting everything onto the wagon and then helped them pulling: win-win-situation. We had a good time walking through the weak rain. When we said Goodbye, they even insisted on supporting me with money for food.

I had another two hours of walking in the rain until Mittenwald. Parts of the way let along the ancient Roman street, still impressivly visible by traces of many wheels in the rocks. I reached the supermarked in time to get suplies for tomorrow, when all shops are closed. Then found a protruding roof outside a church, where I can sleep.