One final tip: A wonderful bike route runs some distance off the main road through Peiting, Rottenbuch, and Steingaden-a day trip I recommend to everyone. There is no better way to get to know the Priests’ Corner. On my trips by bicycle, car, and on foot, gathering material for this book, I discovered many other places that didn’t make it into this novel-crooked wayside crosses, chapel ruins, impenetrable forests, deep gorges, and magnificent churches, as well as cairns, crossings, and secluded ponds. Each place has its own story to tell.
And who knows, maybe they’ll appear in another novel.
Enjoy your reading and bon voyage!
– OLIVER PÖTZSCH
Oliver Pötzsch
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