Jura Day 02

We woke to a cloudy sky, but didn’t have any showers during the day.  This was another leisurely day as we got used to walking with backpacks again.  The trail followed a river upstream through beech forest on a good road.  We reached a sign banning cars and motorbikes, except with a permit, and stating that we should be in possession of ID papers.  We walked on, crossing from Germany into Austria without even a signpost to mark the border.  We left the narrow valley that we had been in, to walk between meadows.  We heard an occasional woodpecker and cuckoo, and spotted one raptor above us.  We turned off the road onto a narrow path and worked our way up to the grounds of a luxury hotel, sadly not open and therefore no chance of a cake.  We were now on a very good path and crossed the border from Austria back into Germany; again no sign, but the Austrian road was graded while the German side had a hard surface.  The route descended through meadows to our finish for the day in the village of Unterjoch.  Nothing in the village was open, but we got a drink at the hotel.  (The hotel said if we wanted lunch we would need to go to the Panorama hotel up the valley, 5mins by car, but over an hour’s walk for us).  We walked to the bakery when it opened at 2pm and bought a cake each.  Today was warm enough while walking, but decidedly chilly if you stopped in the shade.