Spier and the Camino effect

Minkey · Dec 14, 2007

So I went to visit someone I met on the Camino a few weeks ago and we visited the small town of Spier in SW Germany. Nice town... and there was a statue of a pilgrim! Made me want to do it again... Or at least a part of it. I swore blind that I wouldn't do it next year, but....... :roll:

Peter Robins · Dec 14, 2007

assuming you mean Speyer (or Spires as it used to be called in English), I assume the pilgrim you saw was this one
http://www.jakobsweg-pfalz.de/
He wasn't there the last time I visited, tho that was many moons ago.

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