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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Day 10
DAY TEN NEUVY-SAINT–SÉPULCHRE – CLUIS Along the Via Lemovicensis, there are many Romanesque churches. I love the simplicity of the architecture, the massive thickness of the stonewalls, the spacious feeling inside and expressive figurative reliefs on the capitals. Whenever a church like that was open, I visited it. When I entered the church Collégiale Saint Jacques, I was blown away by its beauty, simplicity and graciousness. This church – a replica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – is dedicated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. 11th century church St. Jacques … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Day 9
DAY NINE CHÂTEAUMEILLANT – NEUVY-SAINT SÉPULCHRE Today, I had to walk 24 miles so I got up early. My alarm clock was not necessary – at 5:30, the alarm in the house went off. The noise was loud and shrill. What happened? A fire? Or did somebody try to break in? After a while, the fire department came and turned it off. There was only the other pilgrim Michelle and myself in the house. It was strange. After a short breakfast in the kitchen of the municipal house, I left at 6 am. It was great to feel the cool breeze of the morning air, smell the tangy scent of the walnut trees lining the path and watch the curious cows peaking over the fence – a fence made by blackberry shrubs. … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Day 8
DAY EIGHT LA FOLIE – CHÂTEAUMEILLANT Like some of us, he looks very important this snail Issa “Just walk the first street left and then 3 times right,” said Md. Jacquet at the breakfast table at La Folie. It is easy to connect with the Way to Santiago. I left earlier than Daniel and Chantelle, the French couple who also stayed at the bed and breakfast place. After 10 minutes, I was already lost. The country road was leading to a dead end. Luckily, I met Daniel and Chantelle again and walked with them. They had a map. We needed two hours to come back to the marked way with many crossroads in between. Daniel and Chantelle showing the way Hundreds of geese on a geese farm. Long before, the smell was announcing them. … Continue reading
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Total eclipse of Blood Moon tonight
TONIGHT FOROCTOBER 7, 2014 Tonight – the night of October 7-8, 2014 – there is a total eclipse of the full moon. This is the Northern Hemisphere’s Hunter’s Moon – the full moon after the Harvest Moon. It’s also a Blood … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Day 7
DAY SEVEN CHARENTON DU CHER – LOYE-SUR ARNON Md. Malivon’s chateau was close to the canal. She showed me a shortcut through her park and I walked through dense bushes, over a wall and a ditch back to my way. It was not easy with my backpack. When I reached the canal, the joy of walking immediately captivated me again. Little dew drops on the grass looked like pearls in the morning sun and the flowers along the canal were glowing in brilliant colors. It was not long after I started my walk that I found the most beautiful feather. I loved it so much that I made many photos with the feather in it. After four hours of walking, I reached the town Saint-Amand-Montrond. Here, I bought a guidebook of the “Grande Randonnée,” a hiking route that was pretty much the same as the Via Lemovicensis. The description was much better than in the two books I had taken with me. In this town, I had to leave the canal. … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Day 6
DAY SIX CHATEAU GROSSOUVRE – CHARENTON DU CHER When I left Grossouvre in the morning, I had to walk for one hour on a busy country road. The following poem came into my mind: Between seven and eight o’clock On a country road Cars are coming and going I feel like a frog Squished flat. After this nerve wrecking walk, I reached the Canal de Berry, a now unused canal built in the beginning of the 19th century by Spanish prisoners of war. For two days, I was walking along the shore of the canal, often lined by high trees and a dense wall of shrubs. Jumps of the frogs leaping into the water when I passed by, uncountable butterflies rising up the grass by each step, storks flying over the tree tops and the ever changing reflections on the water made it a walk through paradise. … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Day 5
DAY FIVE NEVERS – GROSSOUVRE A world of dew and within every dewdrop a world of struggle Issa After crossing the Ponte de Loire in Nevers, I did not follow the traditional route but took the route a pilgrim suggested in Le Chemin. By doing that, I had no book to rely on and no map to verify the way. However, most of the time it was an easy path – I just followed the Loire downstream, which connected to a canal and the canal connected with the river l’Allier. Canal between Loire and L’Allier … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Day 3 & 4
DAY THREE AND FOUR ST. RÉVÉRIEN – NEVERS Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope…….. T.S. Eliot When I woke up in the morning, I knew that I was in trouble. My two big toenails were injured and my feet full of blisters. But I did not want to stay and rest in this sad town. After I left in early morning and walked only for several minutes, a Dutch woman invited me for coffee at her home. Her name was Wibecke. After coffee, she invited me to take part in a Happy Happy Dance movie shooting done by the few villagers still living in Angles. A hundred years ago, it was a village of 300 people. It was an attempt to bring life and happiness back to the now semi-abandoned place. Wibecke making a photo of the participants of theHappy, Happy Dance in Angles Wibecke invited me to stay in her house and bring me to Nevers the next day, a town 30 miles to the west. The whole day, I helped her to bring order in her chaotic house. She was in the process of moving from one part into another. My feet could rest for two days. I was so thankful for that. Wibecke in front of her house. It consists of several tiny houses, where in each house once a family of woodcutters lived. The wood was used for building houses in Paris. When I was in Nevers, the first things I did were buy new trekking shoes and send my old ones back to Austria. I stayed overnight in the monastery Maison Saint– … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Day 2
DAY TWO LE CHEMIN – SAINT RÉVÉRIEN Although I planned to take as little as possible with me in my backpack and was well prepared, I was not prepared for the heat. The villages I passed often seemed abandoned with no grocery store to buy water. Sometimes, I rang the bell in a private house to ask to fill my water bottle. Medieval stone cross signifying the crossing of two roads – the ancient Roman road and the road to Santiago de Compostela Mercilessly, the sun burned down on the asphalt road. Every old oak tree giving shade was a relief from the heat. I had taken the wrong shoes with me – heavy hiking shoes where my feet could not expand. My feet were burning. However, despite my problems, the walk was pure joy. White cattle were grazing on the meadows, palaces where greeting from the distance and huge fields of soya and wheat were stretching to the horizon. In the often-abandoned looking villages with deteriorating stone houses, swallows were flying in and out of their nests and up in the sky. Former public washing place which I found in nearly every village … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
Voie de Vezelay A pilgrimage through France This summer, I went on a six week pilgrimage through France, one of the three major French pilgrimage ways to Santiago de Compostela. I started in Vézelay and went to Saint-Jean–Pied-de-Port, the popular starting point of the Camino Frances in Spain. The whole distance was about 560 miles. The walk is also known under the name Via Lemovicensis. I walked alone. As part of the pilgrimage, I did a one weeklong creative writing workshop with Natalie Goldberg. The workshop was located near La Souterraine, a town on the Voie de Vézelay. “Closing the Gap” was the theme of the workshop. This was also the intention of my walk – to live in the present moment, closing the gap between body and mind. With this walk, I also closed the gap between the Camino Frances I did with my daughter four years ago and the Via Lemovicensis, the walk from Vézelay to St. Jean–Pied-de-Port. Like always, I took poems, haiku’s and Dharma sayings with me. Often, I pulled one of the sayings for the day. I will include these in my report. The routes to Santiago de Compostela … Continue reading