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Christian Zimmermann (52) from Flumenthal (SO) loves adventure and prefers to take it under his feet. His biggest risk so far: In 2019 he walked from Flumenthal SW to Moscow, alone with his shopping cart «Mrs. Molly – The Shopping Cart »by his side. In figures: 3,392 kilometers. In 111 days. Across four time zones. Around 30,000 meters of altitude.
He forged the maddening plan in 2018: walk to Moscow! Nothing new for Zimmermann: “This trip was already the second of its kind. The first took me to Australia on foot in 2016.”
“Traveling with my own muscular strength fascinates me”
Zimmermann already had his own shopping cart from Australia. “If you have to carry supplies and 100 liters of drinking water for about a week, a normal backpack is not enough,” he says. That is why the idea of the shopping cart came to him, he liked this absurd idea.
The shopping cart was named after him on the trip to Australia: “At the Australian Air School I met a teacher who invited me to class. Then the children chose a name for my shopping cart: Mrs. Molly, the shopping cart, what a beautiful rhyme. ”Mrs. Molly stayed true to him and also accompanied him to Russia.
“He thought I was starving.”
On May 5, 2019, the time had come: Zimmermann and Mrs Molly set out on foot east. In front of him: about 3,392 kilometers, through 8 countries.
What remains in the memory: the encounters and moments with the people, the warm hospitality of the people of the East. Der Solothurnner: “At first glance you probably thought I was homeless. But still, hardly a day went by without being given gifts or invited to dinner. “
“It seems you can legally walk on the highway in Russia.”
And because a shopping cart doesn’t have much to look for in traffic, drivers in Russia quickly become the biggest danger: “They have absolutely no regard for pedestrians.” To get to the city center, he had no choice but to take the highway as a pedestrian.
“When I was walking on a five-lane highway just before Moscow, police cars kept passing me. Not one of them made any move to control me or to pull me off the road. It seems that you can legally walk on the highway in Russia. “
After about 111 days, it finally arrives in Moscow. “Two people from the Swiss embassy warmly welcomed me with Swiss flags in the red square. After that, the first thing I did was eat a large meal. “
Christian Zimmermann describes his experiences in his new book “Wanderfieber”.
