Stage 9: Rossatz via Bergern to Stift Göttweig

Another wonderful and peaceful night on the trail. Our room at Haus Steinmetz in Rossatz was great and so quiet, and breakfast was also nicely done with home-made jams and apricot cake.

The weather didn’t look too bad (yet) so we started off at around 9 a.m.

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Stage 8: Maria Langegg via Hofarnsdorf to Rossatz

Sleeping at the e2 Ferienzimmer (private house with 3 rooms to rent) was simply awesome. All 3 rooms are designed in 3 different kinds of woods and it feels and smells like standing in a forest. I love the whole house, actually, I’d want to move and live there forever! 💚 I usually don’t post pics of our accommodations but this time, I’ll make an exception…

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Stage 5: Maria Laach via Aggsbachmarkt to Emmersdorf

6 a.m. That’s when you’re being woken up in pilgrimage places because the church bells just love to announce that time of the day… 🙄 It also doesn’t help when your accommodation is right next to the church, mind you.

Breakfast at the Hotel Grüner Baum was nothing special but it was food so we stuffed ourselves and started today’s two stages of the trail…

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Stage 4: Mühldorf – Maria Laach

At night, the rain that was predicted the whole afternoon finally came. It was quite some downpour but no thunder. So much for precise weather forecast. 🤣

We didn’t rush to breakfast this morning because we had a short trip ahead today but since we went to bed rather early we were hungry and awoke before the alarm. And so we were the first ones at breakfast again… 😉

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Stage 3: Weißenkirchen – Spitz – Mühldorf

Today, thunder and rain was forecasted so we wanted to start a little earlier than the last two days. The owner of the Donauhof was so lovely and prepared breakfast for us already at 7.30 a.m., therefore, and it was great! Many regional products, great cakes and other sweet stuff, home-made apricot jam again, tea from Sonnentor, organic fruit juices, a great Liptauer spread…

So we started off filled and happy at 8.15…

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Stage 2: Dürnstein – Weißenkirchen

We slept very well in the B&B Gästehaus Rolea, not a sound outside, and even awoke before the alarm went off. Breakfast was awesome! Muesli, fresh fruits, fresh bakery stuff, home-made apricot jam from the owner’s own apricot garden, avocado, boiled eggs… If you ever get to stay at Dürnstein really consider this B&B – and it’s so much cheaper than all the hotels there! The owner even cut us two slices of the home-made apricot cake for the way as he saw that we wanted to head off before even trying it. 😉

Then off we went. First stop – Burgruine Dürnstein.

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Stage 1: Krems – Dürnstein

We arrived around 9.30 a.m. in Krems and dove straight into our first stage – after having had to walk 1,5km to the starting point at the Hoher Markt (because we never do it the easy way, of course 🤣).

Immediately the pattern of today’s tour began to emerge: up and down and up and down…

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