Jura Day 10

A decent breakfast, then we walked to the bus station (via the Coop to buy some water and dried fruit).  The bus took us to the outskirts, about 5km along a dead straight road, which we had decided would not be a very pleasant walk.  It was a short walk from the bus stop to the start of the trail, though there was a slight detour due to major bridge and road works.  We walked alongside the river on an almost flat path.  There were a couple of sections where the path stretched into the distance, dead straight for a couple of kilometres or more.  The fields on our right were mainly full of vegetables.  We finally climbed up a long set of steps to leave the river valley, walked alongside the railway on a narrow path, reached a huge industrial area and railway station, and then dropped down 200m to an old sawmill in a quiet hollow.  It was hard to believe that what we had walked through existed only a short distance away.  

We then had a long climb up through the forest, finally reaching the top and seeing Dielsdorf (the start of the Jura Crest walk) across the valley.  We dropped down to Bulach and followed a road through the centre of town.  We were soon back out in the country, in very flat land.  We were also on the landing path for Zurich airport, and had a plane going overhead every minute.  We finally crossed the plain, again with many long straight sections alongside ditches or streams, before finally climbing up to Dielsdorf.  As we entered the village, a stork was mobbing a red kite; it was a bit like a jumbo jet trying to take out a jet fighter, with the kite easily evading the stork.  A local builder had put up a pole in the village, as he remembered the storks from his childhood, and it seems to be successful as there was obviously a pair on the nest.  He has also put up twenty nesting poles in his building yard, some of which are successfully being used.

As we ate our evening meal the rain started and looks as if we will get wet over the next couple of days.