{"id":7842,"date":"2026-06-22T17:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:29:33","slug":"baad-statt-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2026\/06\/22\/baad-statt-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking, not swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summer heat has also arrived in Kleinwalsertal, albeit probably on a different level than in the big city. However, since I can certainly go swimming in Vienna, but mountains are rather scarce there, I decided not to visit any open-air swimming pool. Instead, I took the bus to Baad, the last village in <span  xml:lang=\"de\" lang=\"de\">Kleinwalsertal<\/span>, and explored different side valleys from there.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7842  gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"lightbox-link\" href='https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2026\/06\/22\/baad-statt-bad\/20260620_081931\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260620_081931-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"B\u00e4rgunttal valley\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"lightbox-link\" href='https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2026\/06\/22\/baad-statt-bad\/20260620_093523\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"clear\">\n  <div class=\"wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"img gps\" style=\"height:500px;\">\n  <div class=\"geomap\" id=\"map_baad2026\" style=\"width:100%; height:100%;\" >\n  <noscript>\n   <p class=\"noscript\">\n    For showing the map, JavaScript is needed. However, either this browser does not support JavaScript, or it has been disabled.\n   <\/p>\n  <\/noscript>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n My hikes from Baad: Widderstein circuit in blue, Derrak\u00f6pfle circuit in red, Gr\u00fcnhorn summit hike in green\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>  <div class=\"notice\">\nThis blog entry is an abridged version of the original entry in <a href=\"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\">German<\/a>.  <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"footnote-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p>\n<a name=\"footnt1\">(*)<\/a>&nbsp;Wenn die beiden nicht pl\u00f6tzlich mit einem Affenzahn \u00fcbers Ger\u00f6ll gejagt w\u00e4ren und dabei laut Steine in die Tiefe haben poltern lassen, w\u00e4ren mir die wohl nie aufgefallen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch. (*)&nbsp;Wenn die beiden nicht pl\u00f6tzlich mit einem Affenzahn \u00fcbers Ger\u00f6ll gejagt w\u00e4ren und dabei laut Steine in die Tiefe haben poltern lassen, w\u00e4ren mir die wohl nie aufgefallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,139,58,70],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diary","tag-alps","tag-europe","tag-hiking","tag-waterfalls","trips-austria2026","country-at"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}