All the Way from Trier

[Jim Lorenz]

Hi Pilgrims,

I just happened to stumble across this site while looking for an explanation of how to pronounce „Ultreija“. It looked promising, so I decided to join the ranks.

There's really not much to tell yet. My wife and I live out in the boonies about 15 miles from Trier, Germany.
We started off a couple of months ago but haven't had much opportunity to get very far (=overworked). We hope to be at least crossing the border to France sometime soon. I figure 5 to 10 years should suffice for the entire route. Mainly, I hope to find time fairly soon to read your reports and such in order to develop a "feel" for the camino and learn how to pilgrimize.

One thing I've learned already is to wish you all "buen camino" and "e ultreija"

Jim

 

[brendan nolan]

Hi Jim,
Welcome to the Forum. I hope you find plenty here to assist you. Your pilgrimage will be long in time but that gives you lots of time for relection; there will be lots of memories and lots of opportunity to anticipate each stage.
Buen Camino,
Brendan

 

[Jim Lorenz]

Hi Brendan,

Thank you for your words of welcome. Please excuse me for taking a while to reply; I was still getting oriented. For example, I started this note once before a few minutes ago, and it suddenly just disappeared.

We're heading off on another leg this morning (Konz, Germany, to ... we'll see), i.e., we're still sort of practicing. Luckily, we live right on a German "Jakobusweg", so there are no wasted kilometers.

Happy trails and buen camino,

Jim

 

[Paulus]

Hi Jim,

Do you already know where you will cross the border with France?
Are you walking to Vezelay first or choosing for the route to Le Puy?

Greetings from Holland,

Paul (who almost has bought a "fermette" in France along the GR13)

 

[Jim Lorenz]

Hi Paul,

Well, the answer to your first question is easy:
Schengen (Lux.) / Perl (Germany) / Apach (France) is where we'll be crossing.

But your second querie is a LOT more difficult:
We can't make up our minds !

We've heard so much about both routes that we wouldn't want to miss, but you can't have it all, I guess. Have you walked either route?

That "fermette" brings up another topic: We'd also just love to, but – again – can't decide where or when. fermette? finca? something else?

What made you decide against buying it?

That's all for now. I've got to get to work. We did another étape yesterday instead of getting our work done. Now there's the devil to pay.

Have a nice Sunday,

Jim

 

[brendan nolan]

Hi Jim,
The route from Vezelay has been completely waymarked since 2005. One disadvantage is that it doesn't have the number and frequency of gites d'etapes as the Le Puy route.
Buen Camino.

 

[Jim Lorenz]

Good morning Brendan,

That's good to know.

Thanks and buen camino to you, too,

Jim