my 2 cents: Marmot Hunting for beginners

Today I went down to the German Allgau - leaving home around 5:45am and arrived in "marmot country" around 8am

When I arrived near the city of Sonthofen the rain, which started something +50km earlier as a vey light drizzle, turned into some kind of cloudburst - with an outside temperature of only 13 degrees Celsius...

All those cows were standing in the rain... poor cows.

Marmot hunting in the mountains while it rains?!? NO GO...
Not only that none of the marmots will be get out of their burrows (as far as I know they can kill cows - but don't have umbrellas) but also the way to the marmots would be some kind of mud-wrestling.

After having a quite bad breakfast at some McDonald's (don't ask me why - but all the taverns and bakery's I crossed were closed...) while it still rained I decided to turn back home.

Around 11am I passed by near Rot an der Rot and noticed a "Watch This" sign at the autobahn saying that there's an abbey in Rot (the town developed out of Rot an der Rot Abbey).
Isn't it mean that in this area of southern Germany I had great sunshine, no rain and plus 20 degrees?!?

After having a real good lunch at the Gasthaus Linde only a few metres away from the abbey itself I continued my way back home with an other stop at the Laichinger Vertical Cave which is a so called "show cave".
Unfortunately I wasn't wearing the right clothes for this cave trip which goes down 55 mtr
But this cave is on the "see next time" list for sure!