Stage 24: Barr - Chatenois

I test my hiking shoes again and it feels like my feet are getting along with them. I have bandaged the wounds well.

Early in the morning, Martine takes me by car to the starting point after breakfast, and so I am already in Andlau at 9 o'clock. There, in the abbey church, pilgrims line up in front of an opening with a bear to ask for healing from foot ailments. As it turns out, too early, the church is closed.

In the monastery Notre-Dame de Baumgarten, the Trappist nuns will accompany me in prayer. This James is special, who can find the mistake?

Since I have the whole day, I treat myself to many breaks, the thunderstorm has only been announced for the evening.

In the vineyards stands the chapel Saint Sebastian with an ossuary:

Ossuary

In Chatenois, I meet the first pilgrims and Achilles, an experienced French pilgrim, gives me his phone number for emergency assistance 😊

Ch

In the evening, a real thunderstorm with hailstones arrives, nature simply needs the rain.