Elevation: 465 m
Duration: 4:42 h
Weather: Sunny but a few high clouds, warm but not too hot, 8 - 28 C
Today I departed again on my general way back to the Netherlands. Still following the Danube upstream. I started in the busy city of Ulm where I stayed the last two nights in a hotel close to the station (but thanks to a strike of the conductors it was very quiet) and ended my day in a Cistercian monastery in the country side. A VERY relaxing place.
My room (top left) is in the old monastery one of the cells of the nuns. The room behind the opened door. They have simplified a bit the furnishing compared to how it looked like back in the days where here Cistercian nuns where living, but not much.
Even to get to the communal dinner I had to walk along the closer to get to the refectory:
An extremely relaxing place in the middle of some nice rolling landscape.
And it wasn’t the only abbey today. My extended lunch break was at Obermarchtal and its abbey:
I first had lunch in a restaurant right outside of the abbey, and then went for a visit. I even had the chance to hear a part of a guided tour that came through while I was visiting the church. It was a guided tour for religion teachers that were there to have some training.
Also the monastery where I am now is still very much used for religious purposes, although there are no more nuns. Now they hold seminars and they seem to be quite religious, judging from the conversations I overheard from some neighboring tables. But they also accept tourists (mainly cyclists and hikers).
During the day there were some other nice churches on the way as well:
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| As well as some reasonably nice villages… |
Again today I started quite early (shortly after 8:00) to enjoy the cold (and yes it is actually cold in the morning). This seems to be a tactic that works fine with this current heatwave.
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