Podcast Episodes

Landsberg

Our arrival in Landsberg is met with four enormous steps over which the Lech flows, so loud and powerful my microphone could not handle it. I decide…

4 weeks ago

Epfach

 | We stopped in Epfach for lunch, and visited one of the many fish passages built around dams. It's noon, and the nearby church chimes to perfectly…

4 weeks ago

Litzauer Schleife

After driving along a dirt road marked by a "verboten" sign - thanks Google Maps! - we reach the last true natural part of the river Lech, before it…

4 weeks ago

Mandichosee

Reservoirs are artificial: they only exist because there's a dam to control the flow of the river. But most of them turn out to be hosting pristine …

4 weeks ago

Rain on the river Lech

The river runs its last few kilometres, going through a stretch of forest and one more dam. This sound is the river Lech's quiet goodbye.

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4 weeks ago

The river Lech in Augsburg

The city of Augsburg is crossed by 29 canals, which contributed to its textile industry in the 19th century. Now its lively city centre combines stu…

4 weeks ago

Naturpark Tiroler Lech

 | As we move down the Lech valley, the river grows, collecting water from the streams it finds along its way. Under this specific bridge the water …

4 weeks ago

Dumau

Without any tourists in sight, water and birds are all you can hear in the valley where the Lech gradually grows from a mountain stream to a large r…

4 weeks ago

Wasserkraftwerk Hoefen

As the mountains start to give way to the plains, the human impact gets more visible. The river goes through several Wasserkraftwerk - hydropower st…

4 weeks ago

Ulrichsbruecke

 | Looking for Ulrichsbrücke we got lost and ended up in an enormous, sci-fi looking gravel factory. This is where the gravel dug up from the river …

4 weeks ago