{"id":105255,"date":"2015-04-15T20:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ponyanddogtrip.com\/?p=105255"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:22:43","slug":"wednesday-april-15th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponyanddogtrip.nl\/en\/wednesday-april-15th-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday April 15th 2015. Schleswig. 31 km"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Schloss<\/p>\n

Schloss Insel Schleswig<\/p>\n

\"Wil<\/p>\n

Willst du mit mir wandern (do you want to walk with me?<\/p>\n

\"Tosca<\/p>\n

Tosca finds a thrown away bag with bread<\/p>\n

\"Landschapsimpressie\"<\/p>\n

Impression of the landscape<\/p>\n

\"Tosca<\/p>\n

Tosca finds another rotting roe deer. Don’t say that dog has a bad time.<\/p>\n

\"De<\/p>\n

The Ochsenweg, being used for centuries<\/p>\n

\"Uitleg<\/p>\n

explanations along the trail<\/p>\n

\"Voor<\/p>\n

for those who are interested<\/p>\n

\"Doet<\/p>\n

rest- or camping sites at the Ochsenweg. Reminds me of the old transhumance routes in Spain<\/p>\n

\"Mooie<\/p>\n

\"Babbeltje<\/p>\n

Chat with a Dane who told me about his Norway trips with his truck<\/p>\n

\"De<\/p>\n

While in Germany the trail is calle the Ochsenweg, in Denmark the trail is called the Heerweg and nowadays is used as the pilgrims\u00a0way to Santiago<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Uitleg<\/p>\n

Explanation about the old way of foresting<\/p>\n

\"In<\/p>\n

In Spain, France and in Germany I see much more use of solar energy than in the Nl<\/p>\n

\"warmte<\/p>\n

The heat of fermenting poop being used for energy. Why not in the Nl?<\/p>\n

\"Rhunetekens.<\/p>\n

Viking “Rhune”-writing on Skarthi-stone from the year 900<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Uitleg<\/p>\n

Explanation about Rhune writing<\/p>\n

\"Volgens<\/p>\n

\"Gratis<\/p>\n

Free coffee in gas stationAccording to collegue Marietje from German Wurst to Danish Knackebrot. And she is right again.<\/p>\n

Slept well. <\/span>Tosca next to me (on the floor) in the room.\u00a0When\u00a0I<\/span>\u00a0come back to the room after cleaning myself, the monster has taken my food\u00a0out of the backpack: cheese, sausage\u00a0swallowed half. <\/span>I could\u00a0still save the other half out of her mouth.\u00a0Probably the<\/span>\u00a0saveloy\u00a0now got a\u00a0roe deer flavor.\u00a0L<\/span>ast night\u00a0I told the landlady\u00a0here that\u00a0this morning\u00a0I would not\u00a0have breakfast. <\/span>On the scales during my trip\u00a0I weigh a couple of kilos less than at home, but\u00a0that can also be due to\u00a0the scale? <\/span>Well,\u00a0right now\u00a0I don’t have much left\u00a0to eat but some bread and a rest saveloy. <\/span>Maybe\u00a0this morning I can get\u00a0a breakfast or coffee in the city, or somewhere along the way. <\/span>So, now lets’s leave, 8.15.
\n<\/span>It is good walking weather: cloudy, but a pretty hard, chilly wind. For a long time <\/span>I walked along bike paths\u00a0next to\u00a0a busy road. <\/span>Not really great. <\/span>However, the second half of the 30 km. <\/span>I could release Tosca. <\/span>I\u00a0walked the Ochsenweg.\u00a0At<\/span> quite a few places were information boards about its history. <\/span>See pictures. <\/span>Hundreds of years there was a spring migration of up to 50,000 oxen of the current Denmark to German Hamburg. <\/span>The oxes were usually quite emaciated by the long journey. <\/span>The supervisors, usually 4 per 50-1000 oxen, often barefoot, walked along. <\/span>Where\u00a0slept those\u00a0people? <\/span>Where did they\u00a0leave the oxes\u00a0overnight? <\/span>Barbed wire\u00a0did not exist. Did <\/span>they keep taking turns watching? <\/span>How they kept the animals separated from other groups?\u00a0It’s not on the information boards.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>These types of questions\u00a0occur to me,\u00a0 though I mostly am concerned about walking, eating,\u00a0looking\u00a0after myself, horse and dog, protection against the\u00a0weather. Interest<\/span>ing.
\n<\/span>Along the way I bought chocolate as bread topping for the afternoon and I had a coffee. <\/span>The service station manager liked\u00a0my trip so much, that I got the\u00a0coffee for free. <\/span>Photo. <\/span>Along the route were lovely picnic huts, which could have been used, in good weather,\u00a0as a stopover service for the night. <\/span>Photo. At t<\/span>he Ochsenweg I passed a group of huskies that were harnessed to a cart.\u00a0I was aked to <\/span>\u00a0please\u00a0pass them with a\u00a0very wide berth\u00a0because of Tosca. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture. <\/span>A break next to an ox-like man, who told me a lot about his trips to Norway before his retirement. <\/span>Photo. <\/span>We passed a jet airport, possibly military. <\/span>Impressive, with jets going up and down, right over my head,\u00a0but with a deafening noise. <\/span>Already picture. <\/span>On the way we took a picture of a stone with rhune signs, according to the information board a rudimentary kind of writing, among others used by the Normans\/Vikings around the year 800. <\/span>I had never seen. <\/span>See picture.
\n<\/span>And now I just sit back in\u00a0a hostel\u00a0in Schleswich. <\/span>There\u00a0seems to be another Dutchman here, but I have not seen him yet. <\/span>No one else. <\/span>Because\u00a0of Tosca, I got a room in an outbuilding, because\u00a0in the inn sind keine Hunde gestattet (no dogs allowed). <\/span>It is already 7 pm. <\/span>I have to finish this blog quickly, because I\u00a0got only a few hours internet and only at the main hall, while the desk keeper\u00a0wants to\u00a0leave soon.\u00a0Though I can stay here working at my ipad <\/span>, I still have to walk to the center to find yammie yammie. <\/span>And Tosca still has to get food. <\/span>She’s in my room to recover from the long day. <\/span>Now\u00a0it’s almost my turn. <\/span>Tomorrow to Flensburg, Flensbed Hostel & Boarding house for backpackers in Bahnhofstr .: 32 km. <\/span>Tosca also welcome. <\/span>Tomorrow, Friday, I’m going to cross\u00a0the Danish border. <\/span>Hope that Danes speak some English.
\n<\/span>I owe you a little explanation about why I always make selfies. <\/span>Firstly, as an indication that I make the trip indeed myself. <\/span>One can get\u00a0photo’s anywhere and put those on the blog, but not me! <\/span>And a selfie is faster than\u00a0always posing\u00a0in front of\u00a0the self-timer. <\/span>However, I must always ensure that I\u00a0don’t have contra-light, so usually I look at the sun. <\/span>Therefore my slit eyes. Though my eyes, I believe,\u00a0are not\u00a0such big, round, bright blue phares anyway. <\/span>Who gives a damn.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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