I will write same comment in blue. :)

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On the next picture you cane see Petra how found her favorite Christmas three. :)





Here Markus writes in black andbegan at about 7:30 in the morning. We started off at Eugendorf and our goal was to reach St. Gilgen. In the beginning it seemed like a long way, but when we started walking, it was fun and quite an easy journey. The most part of our way was not over mountains but over fields and through little forests. It was quite easy to walk the Pilgrimage, even though I was just wearing normal sneakers. Although I would recommend to wear better walking shoes. ;)In the morning it was quite foggy, as you can see in the picture below.This was somewhere at the beginning, near of Eugendorf. It is hard to tell where, because you practically don`t see very much.But it was in Eugendorf, as you can see in the following picture.After a little while, the day started to get clearer, as the fog disappeared more and more. And at this point the first sunlight broke through.And our mood brighted up significantly, after especially for me, I felt a little bit tired in the beginning of our walk.At this time I took the following picture, which I like very much. How the sun breaks through the fog and paints a beautiful view onto the heaven.This looks a little bit, if the sky was painted. And something you don`t see every day. It was a very nice moment.Like everytime, if you are new on some journey, we had to search the right path and the Ruperti Pilgrimage did have some signs on the way, but sometimes we could only help ourselves with GPS.Mostly Robert was our pathfinder, he is experienced in guiding our way.And I have to say we reached St. Gilgen, without walking on to many adventerous or wrong ways ;)After I while of walking we took our first well-deserved break at this pretty little chapel.One neighbour of that chapel, was so friendly and offered to us, to drink our tea and water at his home. But we didn´t do that, because we wanted to get walking again and not to rest and realx to much, so we wouldn´t get lazy. At least thats what I thought.This was a fun invention somebody made. We were not a 100% clear how it worked.It seems to be a little waterwheel.There somebody did have a very creative spirit.It was still pretty cold, but the sun started to warm slowly and the frost on the grasses disappeared.And now we did have a really good and far view.From the distance we saw one single tree standing on a field and it looked a little bit lonely but also made strong impression on me. Thats where I took this picture. Robert tried to climb on the tree but this proofed to be a little bit to difficult. As I said, the tree is big.On our journey we also met all the differend kinds of animals like this friendly dog who came to us and we greeted each others.I don´t remember how the little village was called, where we found this, at least from the outside, small looking shop. But when we stepped inside, we saw, that it had quite a few rooms to offer and very many little and big pretty decorational things. And some were funny as well. It was definitley a good experience for the senses and I felt something like a christmas spirit in there.We also saw the following church.I was not in the church, when Petra was supposedly doing some training exercises on the floor ;) They told me afterwards, that one could lie down there and watch the stars on the ceiling. After our visit in the church, we had a little conversation about religion.The following is a different kind of marking the way. Unfortunatley we didn´t see the second shoe, because then I maybe would have had more comfortable walking shoes.Our path did also lead us into these dark woods, with its nice colors and we also found our way out of it again successfully.Here we are walking along the shores of the Fuschl sea. A beautiful sea also in the summer, when its possible to take a nice but rather cold bath in there.On the path between Fuschl and St. Gilgen, we met these little creepy dwarfs. They were hiding in the woods between the trees and there were pretty many of them, probably a whole clan.After a while of further walking we finally came into sight of our goal: St. Gilgen am Wolfgangsee. They cut away the trees standing in front of the sight and so we could take a neat look at the city and its environment. This is a view that pays off for the long walk.We also saw this green lantern in St. Gilgen.And when we finally arrived at the "Spar" of St. Gilgen, we asked passengers to take this photo of us. We reached our goal! And now it was time to chill and relax and eat a little. I felt the warmth streaming through my body now and was quite tired. But also excited and looking forward to the next journey.