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Einigen – Schwarzenburg

My pilgrim wife observing the local livestock © Ricky Yates After a night punctuated by further thunder, lightning and rain, we awoke to grey skies the next morning and heard the pitter-patter of rain...

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Schwarzenburg – Fribourg – Froidville bei Posieux

Signposting the Jakobsweg © Ricky Yates Once more there was thunder, lightning and rain as we stayed overnight in Schwarzenburg. And unfortunately, unlike the two previous nights, it didn’t stop as...

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Froidville bei Posieux – Curtilles

The French is slightly longer than the German ‘Wanderweg’ © Ricky Yates When we left the ‘House of Angels’ at Froidville bei Posieux on the morning of Wednesday 13th August, the sky was cloudy and...

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Curtilles – Lausanne – Ecublens

Moudon Church © Ricky Yates         After a splendid breakfast provided by Frau Luder at her home near Curtilles, we set out on a grey, but at that point dry, morning, to walk five kilometres along the...

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Ecublens – Gland

The tower of St-Sulpice Church with Lac Léman beyond © Ricky Yates       After a good night’s sleep and an excellent breakfast, we bid farewell to the Jordan family and walked the 1.5km back from...

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Gland – Geneva

Prangins Church © Ricky Yates     My final two days of walking through Switzerland, accompanying Sybille on her pilgrimage from Prague to Santiago de Compostela, took us through a series of towns and...

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‘Cleanliness is next to godliness’

My clean study bookshelves © Ricky Yates According to the ‘Oxford Dictionary of Quotations’, this proverb dates from the late eighteenth century. Apparently, an early example of its usage is found in...

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A tale of two Advents

The Advent Ring hanging from the ceiling of St. Clement’s Church © Ricky Yates Last Sunday, 30th November, was Advent Sunday which marks both the beginning of the Church Liturgical Year and of the...

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Walking Der Ökumenische Pilgerweg – Görlitz to Gröditz

Peregrinus Herberge, Görlitz © Ricky Yates       As explained in the opening two paragraphs of my previous post, back on Tuesday 18th August 2015, Sybille and I drove from Prague to Görlitz, in order...

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Walking Der Ökumenische Pilgerweg – Gröditz to Kamenz

On the morning of Friday 21st August 2015, Sybille and I set out from the Pilgerherberge at Gröditz, to walk 20km to the large town of Bautzen. As you can see from the photographs, we were blessed with...

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