Germany to Rome in 64 Days: Our Pilgrimage
Germany to Rome in 64 Days: Our Pilgrimage

Author: Mike Metras

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-12-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0557004772

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Germany to Rome in 64 Days: Our Pilgrimage is about our pilgrimage from Kisslegg, Germany to Rome. It's about how my wife, Petra, and I interacted with the people we met and the places wewalked through on this 64-day pilgrimage. It's also the story of our internal pilgrimagesthrough our souls, minds, hearts, and spirits as we walked that external paththrough Germany, Austria, and Italy toRome.To put it in a broader perspective, Germany to Rome in 64 Days: Our Pilgrimage is about how we celebrated thisten weeks of our lives and some of the things we want to take from it to enrich our ongoing pilgrimage of life.And as we tell our story we drop a few hints on how you might use someof what we learned as you walk your pilgrimage of life or when you choose to take a similar walking pilgrimage.Germany to Rome in 64 Days: Our Pilgrimage is also is available on lulu.com in a printed color version.

Do You Have a Match? Bocadillos, Poppies, and Pilgrims
Do You Have a Match? Bocadillos, Poppies, and Pilgrims

Author: Mike Metras

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1365011224

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Do you Have a Match? Bocadillos, Poppies, and Pilgrims is a personal account of my first walk across northern Spain on the 1200-year-old Camino de Santiago in 2003. I went there not knowing why. I was only following persistent chills and goose bumps that dogged me whenever I read anything about northern Spain and the Camino. I went because the Universe was pushing me a little more than gently in that direction. At the end of my third day walking, I met Petra who was to become my wife, my companion on my pilgrimage through life. The Universe had a reason to push me. It wanted me to meet Petra.

Encounters On the Road to Jerusalem
Encounters On the Road to Jerusalem

Author: Mike Metras

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1329328949

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This is the second edition of the story of our epic walk across America and Europe to Jerusalem. In January 2009, we began walking east from our home on the central California coast on my 66th birthday. On Christmas Day 2010, we walked past the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem. Our pilgrimage was over. This book tells the story of our encounters with people, places, animals, sun, wind, rain, snow, roads, and paths and their effects on our bodies, minds, and souls as we walked across North America and southern Europe. It also tells the story of our encounters with our own joys, doubts, fears, and ecstasies. It is the story of living 23 months on the road, of trusting the Universe to provide what we needed when we needed it.

National Monuments and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany
National Monuments and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany

Author: Hans A. Pohlsander

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9783039113521

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No century in modern European history has built monuments with more enthusiasm than the 19th. Of the hundreds of monuments erected, those which sprang from a nation-wide initiative and addressed themselves to a nation, rather than part of a nation, we may call national monuments. Nelson's Column in London or the Arc de Triomphe in Paris are obvious examples. In Germany the 19th century witnessed a veritable flood of monuments, many of which rank as national monuments. These reflected and contributed to a developing sense of national identity and the search for national unity; they also document an unsuccessful effort to create a «genuinely German» style. They constitute a historical record, quite apart from aesthetic appeal or ideological message. As this historical record is examined, German national monuments of the 19th century are described and interpreted against the background of the nationalism which gave birth to them.