Category: On the trail

So this is it. This is finally the last day of us hiking the Alpe Adria Trail. It’s the first long distance hike we’ve done. We’ve been on hiking holidays very often but always with one fine hotel as “base camp” and then doing some daily hikes. I’ve never thought that we won’t make it, I just took one day at a time. And so, after 44 days we now were right before finishing our first thru-hike.  Continue reading “Day 45 – from Bagnoli della Rosandra to Muggia”

Since a very mean mosquito (it was obviously very hungry! 😬) shared our room sleep was rather fitful tonight although it was so very quiet here.  Continue reading “Day 44 – from Lipica to Bagnoli della Rosandra”

Tonight we woke to some enormous thunderstorms and heavy rain and I ran to close the window. The wind was blowing very strongly and it took some time to fall asleep again. Otherwise Luciano’s apartment would have been perfectly quiet. 😉  Continue reading “Day 43 – from Prosecco to Lipica”

The night in the Villa Rilke was way too hot and the air condition (or whatever they called air condition) wasn’t helping at all so we didn’t sleep well. Since breakfast was only at 8 a.m. and we woke much earlier due to the noise from the highway not very far away we had too much time to kill. 😒  Continue reading “Day 42 – from Duino to Prosecco”

Today we’d be having the longest of all stages on the AAT – this in the hottest day we’ve had so far in this altitude. It’s one thing when you hike at 1500m or higher with 35°C somewhere down below, but then it’s totally different when you’re at sea level in the South. So we had quite some respect of this day…  Continue reading “Day 41 – from Gradisca d’Isonzo to Duino”

Today it’s been now exactly 40 days since we’re on our trip. That’s more than a month. 😵 I can’t really believe that we’ve been hiking so long and not even for the split of a second I’ve missed home. Not when I couldn’t feel my feet anymore, not when I sweated so much that it trickled into my eyes or not even when we went a wrong way and had to deal with it. For every pain, every drop of sweat and every hardship we were rewarded a million times with awesome views, fresh air, unique experiences, great talks and nice people.  And good food of course. 😉  Continue reading “Day 40 – from Cormòns to Gradisca d’Isonzo”

Since breakfast was only at 8 a.m. we could have slept longer but the church bells woke us again nicely and loudly at 6 a.m. Honestly, you really seldom need an alarm clock on the trail. 😉  Continue reading “Day 39 – from Šmartno to Cormòns”

Since we fell asleep rather early it was no problem to get up at 6 a.m. And at this time you could even open the windows without mosquitos. 😉 Since Felix has fetched the breakfast the day before from the main house we could even eat in bed. 😉  Continue reading “Day 38 – from Breg to Šmartno”

After having made breakfast ourselves we packed our stuff to leave. Since today’s stage is very short we took our time but finally had to say goodbye to Cividale. Gonna miss the icecream. 😉 And Stefano’s gorgeous apartment!

Continue reading “Day 37 – from Cividale to Breg”

Today was our rest day and we decided to sleep in. I didn’t set an alarm, and the church bells also didn’t ring before 8 a.m. but nonetheless I woke even before 7 – not used to long sleep anymore. 😉  Continue reading “Day 36 – rest day in Cividale”