Tuesday 12 May 2015
| Distance (km) | 15 kms | |||
| Distance (time) | 4 hrs | |||
| Climb / Descent | 420m / 380m | |||
| Hard / Soft surface | 35% / 65% | |||
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Today no long distances by car. From the camping site in Thionville we walk to the railway station for the train to Bettembourg. In Bettembourg we take the train to Dudelange and so we're back at the train stop Dudelange-Burange in less than half an hour.
It's just a shorty piece to the main road crossing Dudelange and after crossing this road we rapidly leave Dudelange again. It's only a narrow little road but my goodness, what a traffic! It is one-way traffic fortunately, but every 10 seconds a car passes us. We're happy to arrive in Budersberg and double happy when we have a sidewalk again. Leaving this village we immediately have to climb and though the walking guide says that the GR5 doesn't go completely to the top of the hill it is only a few metres short of the summit. And then we descend again on the other side, so we could have gone around it, I'd say? We cross the crossing and again it goes up into the forest. To the right we can see the valley of Tetange. With a large loop we end up in the outermost tip of Tetange and looking at the houses here this is not the best part of the town, though the church doesn't look that bad. We have a short stop for a sip of drinks and some cookies and then we move on again: first steeply up over a tarmac road, then more gently over a gravel road going to a quarry. And then we can see: large dump trucks pass us, leaving us in a cloud of white dust. We enter the forest again until the point where the Southern trail turns right and we have to go straight ahead. At last we have good old red/white GR5 signs again! We're not at the border yet but it's good to see real GR signs instead of rectangles, circles and triangles in Luxembourg. We walk on a bit more and then we see the famous sign of the Club Vosgien welcoming hikers in France. Bye, bye Luxembourg. A beautiful little country but with too much tarmac to our taste... Hardly in France and we immediately have a detour. This is so cliche! But ok, it is nicely announced and signposted that the GR5 has changed so we cannot really complain about it. Compared to the old route we arrive at the D15 further to the east. We cross the D15 and here we have to go steeply down. Not a problem, in principle, but lumberjacks have completely destroyed the forest track and additionally left a mess of branches and trees. So it is more an obstacle track than a forest track. The lowest point is another gravel road that we have to follow a bit, gently climbign, until we get back to the old GR5 route. A little bit more forest track until we descend into Molvange over a gravel road. In Molvange we have to wait almost an hour for the bus to Thionville, but luckily there is a small bar next to the bust stop. We drink a panaché and talk with the elderly owner of the bar. Apparently it already exists 100 years! We talk about tourisme, economy, weather and employment. My flair for French gets seriously challenged but then it's time to catch the bus. A bus ride of almost 1 hour with a stop at almost every tree and we're back in Thionville... |
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