Finally, a bit of an update!

Hey there! I guess I'll just start this ultralong update. It's starting to feel like a job ;).

Day 35
After breakfast I set out again through Dreieichenhain (where they had a nice old wall) to Egelsbach. There I asked two people who where sitting/chilling in their garden if I could sleep in their garden and was allowed to sleep in the beautifull tipi. They left to their house after talking for a while and I was left alone, to make me a nice fire (which burned all night long and made my clothes smell of smoke) but it was nice.

Day 36
Waking up in a tipi was a nice experience (enen though I had been awake several times during the night when the fire suddenly started burning again).
The road was pretty boring the first part, but my mind kept me busy as usual. I bumped into a really well-equiped walker who had GPS and stuff like that several times, and also met a nice Mexican dude who was working as an oper (taking care of german kids) in the neighbourhood. Then I arrived in Oberramstadt on schedual, and asked around to wind up in the "Naturfreunde Haus". It was ok, but at night I had a beer with only 2,10€ in cash, thinking that would suffice. Apparently the beer cost 3,- euros and the woman was not very nice about it. "You can't just expect to not pay for your stuff!!!" so they made me walk back and forth to the town to get the remaining 0,90... that was not very nice.

Day 37
Breakfast included my cucumber and some sandwitches with cheese. (the restaurant was closed today, so no breakfast). The weather was rather ideal, not too warm not too cold. While on the road suddenly a car stopped and the man asked me where I was going while taking something out of the back of the car. He gave me 3 easter eggs and whished me a nice trip. Fun! Then after drinking an orange juice in a restaurant I climbed down the "Felsenmeer" (close to Reichenbach) which was great fun. Actual climbing/jumping and all of that with my backpack right between a gigantic group of little kids with parents and teachers who where climbing around there as well. Upon arrival all the way down, there was a man sitting on a giant tree trunk sculpting it into a giant. He explained that it was about a myth of two giants having an argument and throwing rocks at each other, but being too weak to reach the other giant causing all the rocks to be where they are today. Then I walked to Oberhambach where I found a really nice family with a great bed. I played lego basketball with the youngest son and talked interesting talk with the rest. Today kind of felt like a new start, with new motivation and a little bit of playfullness.
-I hope not every day report will turn out that long, otherwise I'll still be here in a month :O-

Day 38
After a nice breakfast with the family, and a rematch of lego-basketball (I'm sorry I beat you so bad haha :)) I left again. Nice weather, nice short conversations along the way and pretty good progress. In Birkenau I talked to a guy (because I was looking for a toilet) and he advised me to go to Buchklingen to a restaurant, because they where supernice people and he used to get free meals there as a mountainbiker kid. So I followed his advice and indeed, I met very kind people who offered me a room. As payment/to not feel too asocial I helped in the kitchen for about an hour and a half, preparing eggs and garluck. I got a nice dinner and then took a bath for half an hour :). These people look like hard-working but happy.

I'd really like to have this stuff finished, but It's pretty late already and I don't feel like working on this all night. I'll probably try to update the rest tomorrow.
And pictures will take a little longer, I'm thinking about using Flickr because then you can look at it all with cooliris and don't have to click>scroll etc. to get the idea.
Ok so see you later then!

EDIT: e-freak/protestant priest in Rossdorf: I'm sorry I didn't catch your message earlier :(. I saw it when I was already in Heidelberg so that's a shame. Thank you very much for the invite though!
I'm currently in Switzerland with a friendly openminded monk, and I am uploading all of my pictures to Flickr so that you can watch it as a gallery/with cooliris But apparently Flickr only shows the latest 200 pictures, so I`d have to buy an account to show them all at once. More stories etc. will have to be written later. Thanks for reading!
Flickr Picture gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/japhir/

Day 39
After eating a good breakfast and thanking the people I set out again, this time not to follow the walking route (Europäischer Fernwanderweg E1) but I was headed towards Heidelberg. Everyone said Heidelberg was worth seeing so I listened to them, and set out. After walking the etappe and meeting some people on the way I walked down to Heidelberg from the Silberberg (lots of tourists and great sight). I walked through the Old-town without paying a lot of attention because it was already 5 o'clock and I had to find a place to stay. Then I asked two students if they knew if Heidelberg had any Youth Hostels or anything similar. Apparently the hostel was in their direction, so I walked with them to the nice park along the Neggar. And then somehow I spent the rest of the evening with them, sitting/chilling along the river, then later playing soccer with some Italian guys and it was great to be able to have fun with people my age again :). Tristan and Michael then walked to Tristans home, and I walked along because the hostel was in that direction aswell. We said goodbye and I walked in the directions that where given to me. After a couple of minutes they came running after me, telling me I could also sleep at Tristan's if I wanted to. So we walked back, chilled a bit in his room watching youtube videos and such.

Day 40
After sleeping until pretty late, and eating a bit of breakfast we set out together (Tristan was going to visit a friend of his). We walked to some supermarket and then to the main trainstation where our ways parted, and I was alone again. (Which sounds really dramatic and lonely, but is nothing of the sorts, more like a fact that you establish.)
The first part of the road I mainly navigated with my compass (and by now also the sun), hoping to find my way back to the walking road, and obviously that went pretty well. Then after walking all day, I asked a mountainbiker (Christian) if he knew where to go, and if he knew any place to stay. He told me that in Nussloch there was an Easter evening with a group of youthly people coming together and staying up all night (and sleeping a bit). So after thinking about weather or not to go to such a Christian fest, or just to find someone and knock on the door I decided that it would probably be interesting to experience a real Easter fest, and that it would probably be fun too. And I was right! I first knocked on the Pfarrers/Priests door and asked if it was possible. He brought me to the house where I met the woman in charge of the youthly things, and wrote in my journal. Then one by one the other people came in, and it was great fun. We had some short prayer things and watched a film about a couple of monks on pilgrimmage to Italy and then played some games. Eventually I still caught 2,5 hours of sleep.

Day 41
The next morning I was awoken around 5 o'clock to go to the easter service. It was pretty nice with candles and an interesting atmosphere, but I didn't really like the parts of the bible that where chosen... They where the parts about God creating the world, then destroying it again (Noa) and saying (in his mercy!!) that he'd give us another chance if we'd worship him and so on. The endless whining about humans bing sinners doesn't really appeal to me personally. I prefer the parts of the bible where the love message is more important, and where we are encouraged to live life to the fullest as a way of honoring the creator. Singing was fun though :P.
After that most of the youngsters left, and I had breakfast with a huge group of people with the little group that was still around. Then it the time came that I'd have to go again. It was an interesting experience to get to know a group of people so fast, and then in a couple of hours be all by myself on the road again. But as said before, it's not a bad experience.
Walking went pretty well, but in every little break I took I felt like sinking into the earth for sleep, but I kept on going and then arrived in Neuenbürg, where I asked a woman who was walking her dog if she knew anything. She invited me in, and it was perfect! A nice family, 2 sons (of which the eldest had girlfriend obligations and had to go ;)) a hard working father, and a caring mother. I was able to wash my clothes (I really smelled bad) and played X-box, table football and watched a movie.

Day 42
After a good night's sleep the dad knocked on my door to wake me up. We had a nice breakfast and then I prepared to leave again. I walked through beautifull -finally green and blossoming- forests to Bretten. Then I asked a 60-year-old man if he knew any place to stay. He didn't really know anything, but on the street we engaged his neighbours and he called them over. The two guys of around 28 or so first called around a bit, and I was then invited to one of their houses. They where pretty junky-like, but it was interesting to see what kind of world they lived in. We then ate (vegetarian) Döner and watched a movie on tv. Later another turkish guy came over we talked about all sorts of stuff. (while enduring the smoke haha). It was cool to see that the guy where I stayed really loved his job. He's a slater, and told me he loved working outside, with the little children pointing up, telling their parents "there's a man on the roof!". Cool!