‘The enormous diversity of the journey stays with me’ (Marina Ceelen, pilgrim 244)

Pilgrim Marina Ceelen about her Walk of Wisdom This year I completed the Walk of Wisdom in seven stages, during the days 8 to 12 and 15 and 17 August. My number is 244, but I understood that the number of hikers is already over 800. A fun,…

Beautiful, warm bird sponsor run

It was a nice, warm sponsor run for the Bird Atlas on Saturday 10 September. Almost sixty people sponsored or participated in a bird species from the Bird Atlas: the most important instrument for monitoring bird populations in the Netherlands. Team…

Yvo and Toos

Pilgrims Toos (mother) and Yvo (son) before departure.

Peace Marathon Valkhof Chapel

At the opening of the Walk of Wisdom in 2015, we were given a miner's lamp as a gift with a flame that was lit with a living fire flown over from all continents: the world peace flame. In the Netherlands, the flame burns permanently in The…

The deeper meaning of nettles – Wilma Gravemaker (pilgrim 543)

The Walk of Wisdom Nature is beautiful Naturally beautiful, so beautiful I wouldn't have it any other way My experience in a nutshell The silence between forest, heath and dike Water that makes a rippling sound The little bit of wind that…

Two artists with ‘disabilities’ at the forefront of the Filosofenbug sponsor run

On 27 August, two artists with intellectual disabilities took the lead in our campaign for a new pedestrian bridge in the Filosofendal of the Duivelsberg. It was the third of the five sponsored runs that we organize for the landscape on our…