Day 13 - Spiezmoos to Riggisberg 28 kilometers

Had breakfast with our host Annalise and her pit bull Tina. Yup, you read right. But the dog was more interested in Ed than Joan so that helped. We had a relatively early start hoping to beat the heat again. It's Sunday so we were unsure of what kind of provisions we would find. The trails were a mixed bag for a while. Different surfaces, up and down.  But then we hit a stretch of road walking that, mixed with the heat, sapped us pretty well. We came to a town called Wattenwil where there wasn't much going on with no open stores. But we did find Cafe 44 open where we had a good meal with dessert and espresso. They also operate a bakery so we also bought some things which, added to our stash of food, would be our evening meal as we were to be staying out in the country. We talked a little with the owner's daughter who had recently been in the U.S. on a type of study abroad. She also told us about her family walking the way years ago. We left there with not much further to go to our accommodations for the night but it was hot and we were going very steep uphill. We arrived but no one was home. The little house we were to sleep in was open and so we opened the door but didn't go in as there were cob webs blocking the way and the bed was messy with dirty sheets. We checked around and saw lots of dirty dishes in the kitchen sink and then continued on our way. We made a turn based on the signs and ended up off our designated route but in an hour or so we were in the next town. As we had spoken to Jacqueline at the bakery restaurant, she had said her father ran a place for pilgrims in Riggersberg. Upon entering the town there was a sign board with three places and we ended up at the bakers place.  It is very nice and we are tired and our feet ache but we have fewer kilometers to walk tomorrow.