What you see here is not an error or a picture that has not loaded properly - it is the view we had from our hotel room on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 28:
A little later, it looked like this:
It was our last full day here in Oberjoch. We decided to walk to the Kanzel (chancel), a viewing point at the rim of the valley where Oberjoch is located, looking out across the wider, lower valley with Bad Hindelang in the middle.
The road leading from the top to the bottom (or vice versa, of course) is one of the curviest roads I have ever seen, with very sharp bends. We'd been riding on the bus back to Oberjoch a few days before, and it truly is a challenge for buses, lorries and so on to navigate the bends and curves.
It claims to have more than a 100 curves, and you can see a good picture of it here.
We stayed there for a while, drinking in the views, before walking back on a different path, approaching Oberjoch from the top so that we arrived at our hotel without going through the village again and having to walk up the slope. It was time for coffee and cake, and afterwards, we rested for a while.
Later, we walked back down to the village to buy our souvenirs - cheese etc. at a farm shop. We also had a look at one or two other shops in the village but did not find anything we wanted (or needed) to take home.
The next morning, we took the last pictures from our hotel room before having breakfast, packing our things and checking out.
Driving home to Ludwigsburg took us about 2 1/2 hours, but the roads were very busy and the drive was rather tiring. Our holiday in the mountains was over, but we still were off work for the rest of the week, and of course I will tell you about the remainder of our holiday, too.
Good job your last day in Oberjoch cleared up after the thick morning mist. You certainly picked a lovely area to holiday in. I just looked at a map and saw how very close it is to Austria.
ReplyDeleteYep; as I said in one or two previous posts, we were just up the road and round the bend (or across the mountain) from Austria, and walked on Austrian ground several times on our hikes.
DeleteIt was good that you allowed yourself some time off before returning to work! Gave you time to rest up and recover from your busy, lovely holiday!
ReplyDeleteWe usually make sure to have one or two quiet days at home before work starts again; I would not want to return late on a Sunday night and race to the office on Monday morning.
DeleteA drive home in a fog like that wouldn't have been enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteTrue! Good job that it cleared up in time.
DeleteIt looks like you woke up in a cloud! I'm happy for you both that you had such a nice holiday. It is very smart to allow more time off when you return home too!
ReplyDeleteYes, the cloud was on our side of the valley that morning!
DeleteThank you, Bonnie; it did us both good, and we would never want to return late on a Sunday night and then have to be up early for work the next morning.
Waking up to a cloud as Bonnie remarked, and driving home in mist as Graham said.
ReplyDeleteAlarming, but a day to look back on.
And you are close to Austria as our map reader Neil noticed.
The changing skies over the valley are dramatic enough for any Gothic romance, and I like looking at the great rock face. I am with Henry Moore when it comes to landscape.
I like how you always come back to coffee and cake or a stein of beer if the day's hot.
I remember the picture of the fox from an earlier post; it makes me think of the fox I see near where I live in Glasgow.
They named a restaurant after him - The Hyndland Fox.
Jack H.
So many paths cross the border to Austria there (and we went back and forth several times) and you don‘t know it unless you are ona proper road where a sign will tell you.
DeleteWhenever a part of a hike feels particularly strenuous, thinking of the refreshing shandy or the nice hot coffee and cake I will have spurs me on.
You probably remember that Neil painted that fox after a fox that frequently came visiting his garden. I am happy that the picture has found its way to me. Fred lives on!