Salut! We have reached the Franche-Comté and here do not add sali but salut. There will always be French. Here in Belfort's quite a hubbub, as the Tour de France today goes anywhere near over. Some of the FJT (which is the French youth hostel) went to the track and wanted to take us. Do I need but do not have to wait for hours in this Affenkaelte on the roadside for a few vollgedopte cyclists. Luisa also had no interest. She noticed the jerseys, you can tell what color the pills. dotted yellow, green or red. I do not know why anyone still interested for the trip. But here are all quite mad.
can one really when pilgrims take drugs? I have a circuit means for low blood pressure. Even so, a colorful little pick-me. But quite harmless. Gave me my doctor prescribed. After that I can not get a deed because Novadral on the list of pilgrims doping is * grin *. Or says the Lord, you know, the sky is not comin '. Hast doped with pilgrims. Well, that would be nice but this stupid in the moment.
We have brought in Belfort a day off tomorrow because Luisa goes from here back to Darmstadt. Your pilgrim days are unfortunately over. Next week she travels with her youth group to Denmark. Now we do a wash here, writing. Survey and street music day. After ten days it will go on pieces time again for that. For writing, we went to the Bibliothèque municipal. Here it is beautiful empty and quiet. Because they're all * of the tour grin *.
From Guebwiller took us three days to Belfort. The first day was nice weather, but then it rained for two days. Yesterday even continuously. We started very early and were soon on the beautiful lake of Thierbach. Finally a lake! And because we so happy in the water herumplanschten, came at a time Thomas and Mary from the church. Now they must think we are stupid total. Marie Thomas has immediately drawn further. Hihi. In the pilgrim hostel in Thann and the Benedictine nuns in Bellemagny we are quite gone out of their way. I think they read the blog. but nothing said.
Next to the lake is the Baroque church Notre-Dame, a Marian shrine. Two children are in our pond a Virgin Mary figure found. Then a church was built and the pilgrimage has begun. The church belonged to a Benedictine monastery by the way, has taken up the pilgrims. The Abbey Barn is a few years been transformed into a chic restaurant. Every night there is now a puppet show performed. It is about a pilgrim who comes to the monastery and asked for a soup. An awesome plot, said Luisa. Since we know but what you have on the frog king. The restaurant makes an expensive and very sophisticated look. You would have to try it, if you get a soup as a true pilgrim. Otherwise this is just a pseudo-pilgrimage-puppet to attract tourists. There is a hostel for pilgrims by the way it is no longer in Thierbach. So I find it bad if people do with the Camino such a business and do the same for the pilgrims so little.
From Thierbach the road takes us through the forest to Thann, where a large Gothic pilgrimage church. The Monsieur, who took care of the church told us that have gone in the Middle Ages from Germany as more pilgrims to Santiago to Thann Thann and that is the Santiago of Alsace. Here, namely the finger of St. Theobald is venerated. Wow, a whole finger. Luisa was again on the verge of one of her comments on . Make But I have nudged and "say it is not" hiss. Saint Theobald was bishop of Gubbio in Italy and took care of pilgrims to Rome. Therefore, he is a special saint for pilgrims. Like James. In the large door of the church you can see it with two pilgrims. You have to examine but accurate. The portal is in fact huge. 18 meters high and 8 meters wide, white my smart guide. And that's only the middle one. Right and left are also portals. 500 figures here will be visible. The cathedral of Strasbourg is not much more. And all because of a finger. Somehow faszienierend already, what beautiful things have been created earlier by the faith of the people.
The road from Belfort to Thann was again nice, but it also rained a lot. Yesterday even the whole day. Behind Bellemagny is a new landscape. The Franche-Comté is very different. No more vineyards, but many pastures and meadows, and occasionally a small forest. But we have not noticed much of it, but the rain moved into our heads and went on and on. Actually, we did not break. But there was nothing where we could sit down. Only after 15 kilometers at the Boulangerie by Denney we stopped and ate cake. We also got a coffee. And then back out into the rain for the last seven kilometers to Belfort. We arrived soaking wet on Pitsche-FJT. Much we have in the evening no longer made. We were really ready again.
We are going through today but Belfort. The city is not really so beautiful, but has a special meaning for the French. There are in fact an important fortress, three times by the Germans could not be conquered. Therefore, Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor who made a huge monument, a large Loewen, who has just woken up and straightens up menacingly. He roared terribly. This was intended as a threat against Germany because the Germans had captured shortly before the Alsace. Bartholdi was probably inclined to like big formats, as the Statue of Liberty in New York is by him. That I like but better than the patriotic roaring lions, although I have never seen in nature. But in Belfort, the Loewe's landmark. Since even the cathedral is not with, but which is not particularly nice. A rather large box from the red stone that is available here in the Vosges.
We will go straight to the evening Mass and then eat something before going home tomorrow Luisa.
Bisou
vôtre Julie
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