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Around The Lake - Thursday July 1, 2010

Around The Lake - Thursday July 1, 2010


It looked like a perfect day today for the “Tour de Walchensee”. No Phyllis it was not another major sporting event. In fact it was just the opposite - very peaceful and quiet. The lake is located about 7 km north of us. We parked the Twingo, unloaded the bikes and headed in a clockwise direction from the village of Einsiedl. In places the path was paved and wound along the lake with benches to rest at many turns usually at a great vista point. Sometimes the path narrowed down to a 2 foot wide gravel path, sometimes through little willages and large. Many camera spots with the coral blue/green water and snow capped peaks in the background. At one point the path narrowed , became very rough and rocky but we peddled on, only to find from 3 ladies walking that we were on a walking only path. 'Twould be nice to be able to read more signs - so many and so different. Always though we were along the lakeshore within sight of the lake. At times we had to “look the other way” - lots of sunbathers and a few picnic-ers. By noon time there were getting to be many bikers, walkers and a few cars on the paths closer to the towns. At another spot the pavement became gravel and up ahead we noticed a swinging gate across the path. Had we not seen other bikers open the gate and continue after closing the gate behind them, we might have been tempted to turn around and go back. Just up ahead then we saw 2 cows - bells clanging, contented with the peaceful pastures - coarse we had to stop for a few photo-ops. Then a little further another fence and we were back on paved road again. So we saw it all - a very pleasant morning. We had taken our coffee mugs (full of coffee of coarse) in the mug racks we had purchased so we stopped at several shaded spots to take a break and take in the scenery. A family we met just before the cow scene, were from northern Germany on their vacation. They noticed our coffee mugs right away and that was the first comment as we met at a signpost to check on directions. Not much need for directions though since we simply followed the lake. It was 28 km around and we finished in about 4 hours with many stops along the way.