Bayern hike photo dump #9: Scheidegg to Lindau

This seems like a good time to mention how great the shower was in the hotel in Scheidegg where we spent the night. Stefan had suggested we stay in an impressively inexpensive AirBnb RV, with shower access inside the house it was parked next to, but I insisted that having a private shower would be worth the extra expense, and it was.

The last day of our Bayern hike was a 16-mile descent into Lindau. That's right: Mr. Broken Femur was now able to hike 16 miles in a single day.

We were warned of cats as we entered Ostkinberg:

Hi, Jakobsweg:

At one point, Austria was an easy one kilometer down the road--a ten-minute walk!--but we honored the terms of my Fiktionsbescheinigung...

...and admired Austria from the German side of the border. 

Across the road from Austria was a German church with cows:

We started seeing signs for Lindau ~9.2km from our destination:

Keeping Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Boeserscheidegg company was its sister city, Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Boesenreutin.

We've driven to Lindau multiple times on this freeway. This time, we walked.

Look--storks in the field below Oberhofer Halde, the ridge where we were about to see...

...unexpectedly expansive views of the Bodensee.

The view included a guide to the peaks in front of us...

...as well as a renovated chapel, originally built in 1870 by Prince Luitpold of Bavaria in memory of his wife, Augusta of Tuscany. Leave it to me to take a photo of the sign but not the chapel... 

We then began our descent from Weissenberg into Lindau...

Lindau's Altstadt is on a small island. We declared our destination reached when we walked across crossed the bridge to the Altstadt.

Proof of concept: It's possible to take a ferry from Lindau all the way to Ueberlingen. Doing so would connect my Steinebach-Lindau trek with my Freiburg-Ueberlingen trek, if I ever wanted to spend the time connecting them. 

We enjoyed Lindau's Altstadt in the company of a few thousand other tourists. 

This brewer's star frames either a stein or a pot of coffee for the morning after:

Kinetic art near the harbor:

The regional train back to Munich was standing-room only. We were lucky to have gotten seats.

Ta da! A 16-mile day.