Walk in the strength that the Living One gives you,
Walk upright, walk awake, walk tenderly,
and look for the love of God.
God bless you.
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| Sigrid and Jeff. |
Then we were off. Through the narrow streets of Stade, through parkland, past communities and into the countryside, past farm houses and massive barns, and small settlements. Northern Germany is very flat, and there were many very long stretches at times.
For much of the time the Jakobsweg (the camino route to Santiago) shared the same path as us. We will crisscross with various Jakobsweg routes regularly .
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| Leaving Stade, the two variations of our markers showing the way. |
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| Our two Via Romea Germanica markers below the Jakobsweg ones. |
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| There were many trees in blossom - mostly apple or cherry. |
There were no services along the way but we had a stop at a golf course. Two men chatted with us, asked if we were English and when we said that we are New Zealanders one of them said, 'Oh god, you're Kiwis.' They said we could sit out on their deck to have a break and told us where the toilets were.
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| Our friends at the golf club. |
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| Asparagus harvesting, both green & white. |
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| The Evangelical Church |
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| St Micheal's Catholic Church - it was locked. |
Harsefeld has a population of c. 12,500 and belongs to the district of Stade, Lower Saxony.
Source: Wikipedia
