Maxi and Daniel have found a recipe against the boredom in everyday Corona: ice swimming.
The two youngsters bathe in the Poinger Bergfeldsee every day.
Poing - walkers stop and look at the lake in disbelief.
Wednesday at a quarter past five in the afternoon.
Are two young people really walking barefoot through the snow and to the water in shorts and with towels over their shoulders?
“You don't go swimming now, do you?
So, you've got eggs! ”A man calls out to them.
The two youngsters smile.
The two students from Poing actually do it: Maxi (15 years) and Daniel (13) have been going to the Poinger Bergfeldsee every day for a week.
Just because.
"Maxi once stood in front of the door and asked me if I would go with you," says Daniel.
He wanted.
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A tree serves as a clothes rack.
© Armin Rösl
In times like these, when there is not much going on and not possible in addition to home office and homeschooling, you can think about what could help against boredom.
Maxi says that at one point he came to swim in the Poinger Bergfeldsee.
“It's almost as cold in winter as it is in summer,” he says with a smile.
Because it is a groundwater lake in which there is always a current, the water is quite cold even in the hottest summer.
"Now it feels warm because the air outside is much colder," says Maxi.
Poing: water temperature almost like in summer
He and his spouse take off their jackets and throw them together with the towels on the branches of a tree on the bank.
“This way things stay dry and don't lie in the snow,” explain the two ice swimmers from Poingen.
The last few meters, to warm up or freshen up, go barefoot through the snow, then slowly and without interruption straight into the water.
There is a rustling noise, the strollers watch in amazement as Maxi and Daniel swim breasts to the middle of the lake and back again.
Get out of the water, dry off, put on your shoes and jackets, go home.
There's hot tea there.
“It's a nice feeling,” say the two of them after getting out of the water.
And: “Right now the body is incredibly warm.” Outside temperature: minus four degrees.
Water temperature: an estimated twelve degrees.
In summer the lake is around 17 degrees.