Well if your Camino starts at your door any way that leads to Santiago would be considered a walk to St. James.
Any pilgrimage to a shrine is a serious endeavor.
So if I don’t see how it connects to Santiago in Spain it may be my lack of geography. To make it known to others it’s great.
What I...
Dörzbach with its castle and its church locked you see the local nobility was in Santiago and took the shells in their code of armor. So until today the city seal sports the shell.
This is it for me so far. I will have to rest up and work some until Spain awaits me.
I will post some more as I...
St. Wendelin im Stein
Another sanctuary built on top of an ancient worship place. They are caves sourinding it. You walk out of the village and up the hill halfway. Then you see the shell and a name sign.
You walk through a patch of Forrest full with Bärlauch. It tast a little bit like...
Mulfingen Hohebach Dörzbach
Spring is now in full blast. Can’t tell you how after all the winter weather walking my heart opens up. The trees have a light hue of glorious blooming to come.
If you look closely you see the vertical stone hills. In between they had planted wine and every...
If you want to do yourself a favor stay on this side of the river and follow the signes.
I caught a ride from Krautheim to Mulfingen and thinking according to google I could walk as well on the other side . Ok you can.
But then the river takes a turn towards some cliffs and no choice but up...
Heimhausen
Close to the bridge is a Biergarten and they provide with no cost a bathroom, but common courtesy would let you at least leave a tip plus this is the last refreshment stop for a while.
Now along the river towards Mulfingen.
The oldest still existing language traditions are place...
You walk now the Swabian Camino. Likewise no real bus connection from Rothenburg to Schorzberg and the train goes via Paris for hours. So double tracking or maybe you have a car Sherpa?
Schorzberg has nice pilgrim in front of the church, closed as so may that will come. You can visit a...
Rothenburg Sankt Jakobskirche
And yes it’s patron it’s there too and I greet him as an old friend. Over 40 years when I came with my grandma on an excursion to this place little did I know about
the Camino.
Now they closing the church for real and I go to find the bakery my Grandma had...
Rothenburg
A town that on the route from Prague to Speyer is an old merchant town which prospered , hence the fortifications that you still can see today. It reinvented itself in modern times to the romantic town and if you have seen the twelfth kingdom so might thing the original kissing...
Missed the bus going towards Häslabronn. I drive to Häslabronn and intending to walk back and forth to Colmberg. I park there at the little church and a largish happy black dog greats me. His mistress comes following him and upon hearing my question about maybe an other bus she asked her...
From Weihenzell to Lehrberg is no Bus connection. So I skip this part. Lucky me. Those black clouds don’t for-bode well. It’s starts raining horizontally.So I run into the castle remnant Kappl and have a far look to my next way. Lol there is a sun dial! So easy no sun no time no hurry...
Down the hill and along the valley. Through Forrest and field I saw then Weihenzell.
As so many church towers in the area it’s served as a refuge when plundering soldiers came close.
The have a pilgrim’s St. Jakob in the church and you can walk to the altar to stamp your pass. The church...
Grosshaslach
To leave Heilsbronn you do bit of back tracking but then towards Grosshaslach. You go up to the Church and in front is a little Romanesque building. Go inside one of the treasures of the Camino you can see here a thousand year old baptismal bowl.
Opposite to it there is a...
I saw many evangelic churches posting we are open and then April to October. Biergarten season would be as soon its warn enough to sit outside. I guess with the Eastern Holidays one week before Eastern that would be season start since many families take some vacation time then. Catholic Churches...
Looking forward to some more walks and then I will be on my Swabian Camino. If you life on it along the Jagst and have some insider tips what not to miss from Rothenburg to Speyer be it a sight a rest stop or maybe bus connections, since I only can do the walk in portions and have to return to...
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