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Let me know if I can help.Avidly reading your reports, Bob. I'm aiming for a few days around the St Johan area end of this year...
Thanks as always, Margaret.Bob,
So glad that your week has been both a pleasue and a success! Your daily updates were as tantalizing as the photos. Looking forward to reading your further summary comments as you shift into tourist mode.
Carpe diem!
Margaret
I think the mountain near Salzburg is actually called Untersberg and it's emperor Karl, i.e. good old Charlemagne of Roncesvalles fame.King Karl is sleeping inside Untershorn Mountain near Salzburg. Every 100 years he wakes up and if there are no ravens circling the mountain he will become king again. That's the version I heard locally but if you Google you will find a different version.
Will you return to continue next year? So many paths, so little time!!!
...I felt exactly the same way as you did, BobM, as though I should be heading south not north when some time after leaving Jerusalem, just after crossing the border into Slovenia I came across a Jerusalem Way sign. For the next three days I had a powerful urge to turn around and walk straight back to the Holy Land. Eventually I stopped in the middle of know where to ponder these intuitions....do I, don't I, do I? ... but I didn't...Walking Jakobsweg it felt a little odd to be going backwards, as it were. I felt I should be walking towards Jerusalem, not away from it - especially when I came across a waymark showing the distance to Jerusalem, an impossibly vast number of kilometres....
...I felt exactly the same way as you did, BobM,.......... I had a powerful urge to turn around and walk straight back to the Holy Land. Eventually I stopped in the middle of know where to ponder these intuitions....do I, don't I, do I? ... but I didn't...
'Next year Jerusalem'...
Bob, I think you'll end up walking it or at least I wish you doNice to hear from you again, lovingkindness. You have always been a help to me on my walks.
I am a bit obsessed about walking into Jerusalem through the Damascus Gate, but I am finding this little walk unusually daunting to start - not because of security - but because of the seeming difficulty of finding convenient accommodation close to my route each day. Maybe I should just go, and figure it out on the hoof.
But to re-quote that famous saying, so full of meaning and hope to so many Jewish people, maybe it will be "Next year in Jerusalem" for me.
All the best for the Festive Season and for 2018.
Bob M
@domigee, your journey sounds interesting. Where did you set off from?
Hi Lovingkindness,...
Did you walk through Turkey and then on to Jerusalem? I have read lots of different accounts of similar trips but then I really am not adventurous as all these wonderful people!
Sorry it is such a long message but...it was a long walk!
Ditto...Sorry it is such a long message but...it was a long walk!
Thursday July 13 Salzburg to Bad Reichenhall 21+ km
My post and photos of this stage have vanished probably when the hotel WiFi misbehaved.
Here are a few pics again. Text on the day to follow.
Bob M
Thursday July 13 Salzburg to Bad Reichenhall 21+ km
My post and photos of this stage have vanished probably when the hotel WiFi misbehaved.
Here are a few pics again. Text on the day to follow.
Bob M
Thanks for this Bob.At least in Bavaria (just over the border to the north), yes pilgrims are recognized. There are generally not "pilgrim lodgings", but the innkeepers will look out for you, give some flexibility in scheduling, possibly give a reduced rate. There are nowhere near as many pilgrims as on the Camino Frances, so pilgrims (especially North Americans off the beaten tourist track) may be treated as an oddity. People try their best to be helpful.
Yes but ... in German-speaking areas the route tends to go from church to church, so it is likely to pass right in front of the cathedral. There is also a pilgrim association office near the cathedral, just off the main square. There are guidebooks, in German. The most popular is https://www.conrad-stein-verlag.de/buecher-shop/oesterreich-jakobsweg/Thanks for this Bob.
I am having a hard time finding the start point in Salzburg. Will the tourist office be able to assist?
Thanks for your help! Of course, it makes total sense! Look for the cathedrals and churches! Again, thanks!Yes but ... in German-speaking areas the route tends to go from church to church, so it is likely to pass right in front of the cathedral. There is also a pilgrim association office near the cathedral, just off the main square. There are guidebooks, in German. The most popular is https://www.conrad-stein-verlag.de/buecher-shop/oesterreich-jakobsweg/
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