Bruck to the Slovenian border

Graham is fairly getting on now, he is hoping to cross the border from Austria into Slovenia on Friday 28th.

So far communication has been pretty easy, he's phoned most days. Fingers crossed the mobile signal and solar charger combo will continue!!

The weather has remained hot, with Graham drinking 5L of water one day. Due to constraints with bivying he's been staying in huttes or B&B most nights, but is now thinking that he might have to start sleeping out, if for no other reason than to get an early start in the morning, have a long siesta at lunch time and walk into the cool of the evening.

He has come across quite a few snakes in the last few days, mainly adders. the 1st couple were dead but the last few days they've been alive - and happily hissing as they slither quickly away.

He has fairly been clocking up the miles now too, last Friday he walked 32 miles...... although 5 was trying and failing to find the hutte that he was hoping to sleep in that night. After that he had a well deserved rest day - but unfortunatly no internet was near at hand.

Today he did 9000ft of assent (more than 2 x Ben Nevis!!) He is pleased with his progress as he is now managing the miles and the assent which should keep him on track to complete the walk.

He is also quite pleased with how his German has come on - perfect timing to forget it all before needing in again in several months time when he heads into Switzerland.

Heading into Slovenia there could be some extra miles as the map is a larger scale than the ones he's been using in Austria.