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Listening inwards

"You don't have to fight for unity, it's there." - Anja Strik, supervisor of the silent walk Anja Strik (Het Zesde Geluk) once registered as the 24th pilgrim and will guide a silent walk on Sunday 5 November in our series 'the Walk of Wisdom…

First Storytelling Afternoon Walk of Wisdom surprises and moves

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Wat een fijne, eerste Verhalenmiddag was het zaterdag 28 oktober in Huize Wylerberg in Beek-Ubbergen. Pelgrims van de Walk of Wisdom deelden tijdens een wandeling hun ervaringen in tweetallen. Er kwamen prachtige, ontroerende, humoristische…

New website ‘up and running’

He walked the route as the 338th pilgrim and decided to sponsor us with a new website: Ivan Beemster of the online marketing agency Lijndiensten.com. Designer Geertje Roling contributed to the design. The new website has been up and running…

“This form of rehabilitation encourages clients to get out of ‘survival mode'”

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Six clients with a visual impairment, three professionals and three buddies walked the Walk of Walk of Wisdom together.
Duivelsberg Walk of Wisdom

Help write ‘the story’ of the Walk of Wisdom

"One does not write to be published, one writes to breathe." The Irish writer Samuel Beckett once wrote these beautiful words. Have you written about your Walk of Wisdom? Would you like to write (more) about it and perhaps also send in a possible…

Pilgrimage in Nijmegen: looking with different eyes

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Our starting and ending point, the Stevenskerk, will be open again in the weekends in March (with the exception of 20/21 March) and from April also during the week. There is a good chance that you will meet volunteer Gijs Hoogenboom behind the…

A small piece of old leather in each starter pack

What do a leather jacket, two leather skirts and leather pants have to do with the Walk of Wisdom ? Each starter pack of the pilgrimage route contains a very small piece of it! The many hundreds of small pieces of the old clothes are used to…

Tribute to our start and end point

Since 2015, the Stevens Church in Nijmegen has been the start and end point of the Walk of Walk of Wisdom and we are very proud of that. The building dates back to the 13th century and is considered the most striking building in the city. The…

“My mate, my walking stick, stepped naked and expectantly with me into his new life” (Paul De Marez, pilgrim 1420)

Walk of Wisdom, from the perspective of a distant Fleming As a pilgrim 1420 I left the monumental Stevens Church in the middle of summer for my Walk of Wisdom. That Monday afternoon I had arrived in the oldest city in the Netherlands after a…