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Woke up to rain... again. Here's an investment tip: invest in Austrian hydropower. One thing that there is no shortage of here is water.
After an excellent breakfast we played a couple of games of Carcassonne in the hope that the rain might stop before we left. Only a short hike lay ahead -- about 4 hours (the Berggasthof Bad Rothenbrunnen is about 30 minutes from Buchboden) -- but even so as noon rolled around we felt we should get going. It was still raining.
As we strode out I remarked that I was starting to feel like a real hiker at last: wearing dirty clothes, boots and pack having become second nature, and marching blithely off into the rain.
As we walked along the Lutz River, Russell observed that he could imagine doing the rapids in an inner tube, and Sally added that he'd better be wearing a wetsuit unless it was summer. And then both said at the same time: wait, it is summer! Technically, I suppose, they were right, but it sure didn't feel like it.
But then, a little while later, we spotted a patch of blue sky! And then, I think I have this right (it has been so long), the sun came out. That's what the hot yellow light in the sky is called, right? Remarkably pleasant, hiking under such conditions: I think that I could get to like it ;-).
Other than that the hike was fairly uneventful and we arrived at Hotel Johannishof in St.-Gerold at around 16:15 (having taken 40m for lunch -- we are getting faster!). Tomorrow we hike to Feldkirch where we will award ourselves another rest-day. Probably it will be sunny :-).
