In the previous (sub) Episode I left you around halfway my walk by Knittelfed's river.
Did you miss those shades of green?
Well, here's some more:
The path opens up a bit later to apply more diversity to the whole experience:
I want to make it to the other side of the river when I see this semi closed bridge with this warning sign:
It's all German to me so I take a look at the bridge to judge its condition:
It doesn't look like it can't handle the weight of a (far from chubby) guy like me and I assume that if it was that dangerous it would be closed for good but I try to seek for an alternative. Besides, you can't go wrong walking around a place like this:
No alternatives though so I cross the bridge looking down for any worn pieces of wood on its deck.
Now you Germans probably laugh but that's the other side:
What it reads? I have no idea. I could Google it but in a green heaven like this I have no time to spend on one of my most hated activities: typing on a phone.
I mean, look at what I can do instead:
I've reached the point where the river you saw in my previous images meets the larger one called Mur:
What you don't see in the pictures (blame me for being discreet) is a beautiful tall blond lady who nodded at me with a generous smile before sitting there at this "beach" with her dog to read a book. I thought "what a priceless gift is to have a chance like this at your reach and enjoy such a moment of serenity". Even at places where the landscape offers such chances it's not guaranteed that a woman can enjoy such a moment feeling relaxed and safe all alone with a total stranger. And no, the dog wouldn't be able to protect her. It's pocketable.
I follow this path which leads me away from both rivers and get's me closer to the core of the town:
I have to pass by this cow's heaven first:
And say goodbye to river Mur:
Smokey mountains and fields of green:
And such a lovely path to take on my way back to the town:
Did I mentioned "cow's heaven" or not enough yet?
Lovely as animals can be, don't forget that they also tend to tip the road they walk on:
When this happens under control they just fertilise the soil:
It's fun to watch how some of them look at me 🙂
The field is cowless on the opposite side:
The young dudes - look how the middle one looks at me🙂
My favourite hobby, looking at old buildings/ruins. Here's an old barn with stories to tell:
And my favourite animals: horses. This white beauty rushes to me from the first sight:
Look at this face!
How adorable!
My favourite hobby again - abandoned house this time:
Great house isn't it? And it looks pretty OK considering how neglected it is.
At the local horse club this member insists on exposing the sexiest side:
No matter how long I waited there was no chance to picture anything else than...that.
One more abandoned house:
I rushed to call it abandoned but its case might be more complicated. Some of its shutters look relatively new while others are just shut with concrete bricks. No signs of life. A renovation project that went bankrupted? I guess they built the openings cause it's relatively near the center and youngsters tended to enter, not always with the best of intentions.
The intentions of the guy who did this were good if nothing else though:
I mentioned earlier in my walk that the local urban planning feels like it had kids involved for a reason...
Speaking of kids, this one is far from unlucky living in this heaven:
See how the East end of the town looks like even under this miserable light:
There's not much light actually but there's plenty of sweet houses like these:
And their view is not too bad either:
If you have a kid in Knittelfeld then it will attend this elementary school:
Kinda imposing isn't it? Not many high buildings like this around here but the next one is probably the highest:
I said something about kids before...
Small details can make a huge difference in an attempt to avoid the feel of concrete jungle:
Ladies and Gents, we're downtown Knittelfeld:
I'm not gonna repeat myself about kids but...look:
What would be the center of the cities without the history and beauty of their old houses? The answer lies in the comparison between the lower and the upper part of those images:
These two though are the most exceptional ones here:
The right one is the local post office. I mean...really?
Isn't this wow? If I remember correctly it was bombed during WWII but nothing is here to remind us that since it looks superb.
The other impressive building on this spot is a Romanian Orthodox church:
I've never seen a church with such decoration in front of it:
This is (as far as I can tell) the local irrigation canal though I'm not sure it still acts as one today:
Graffiti attempts in this rather neat town:
I follow the canal with no regrets so far:
That brings me to the local dairy factory where I grab a chance to buy something for my hosts:
Pictures don't tell the truth but it rains enough to force me to walk with my raincoat fully buttoned up. Far from pleasant conditions but I still try to take some pictures as the beauty of this town is not over yet:
Cow business is no monkey business here but huge money business. Even kids at the local kindergarten know this:
This thing reads "K12" but I didn't manage to retrieve more info about it under rain neither anyone was around to ask:
Not sure this dog knows either:
Some oldies but goodies:
I have to try hard to remember a place I've been and I didn't accidentally find a Greek restaurant. Knittelfeld is no exception:
This is the Austrian approach on speed blocks:
I think the last image tells you how rainy it is and having walked all that stuff you saw in these two long sub Episodes it is time to walk back home.
While I dry myself you can watch a summary of clips in the following video,
and see you on the next one!
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