Pilgrim’s Happiness – by Francine Postma
My sixth day of hiking has started grey. There is a chilly wind and it is drizzling. In myRain suit, I walk, with rustling trouser legs, on muddy paths, through […]
Entries by Damiaan Messing
Visit of the route doctor
In Heumensoord, two poles of our symbol were shaky or decomposing. Our ‘route doctor’ and marker Wim Groos repaired them a while ago together with his wife Marianne. Thank you […]
Landscape contribution: pilgrim’s path de Waalgaard
Nice: we recently got our own ‘pilgrim path’. In Weurt, municipality of Beuningen, right on our route. There is the Waalgaard stop, just below the dike. This pick-your-own orchard wants […]
Foot bath in Ravenstein
For pilgrims who will soon be walking: one of our stops in Ravenstein is often closed during the day: the Keurvorst city inn. You can ‘score’ your bird ring in […]
World premiere Sat 3 Sep: a song to save the world
Troubadour and shaman Mark Schilders has written a song for us ‘to save the world’. He means it! The world premiere of this will be on Saturday 3 September, during […]
Meaning coach Maria Mazarakis in our new Book of Hours
After choosing inspiration as a theme for our new Book of Hours, we came into contact with Maria Mazarakis. Maria is a sociologist and meaning coach and has been organizing […]
Waal beaches clean again
Last Friday we cleaned the Waal beaches from the center of Nijmegen with a cheerful group of Walk of Wisdom volunteers. The beaches are located in a nature reserve almost […]
Earth angels and a (small) gesture to save the world – Marlieke Overmeer
Artist Marlieke Overmeer participates in our second pilgrim book of hours On the Way to Wisdom. She has painted a series of ‘Earth Angels’ especially for us. She also designed […]
TV report Huub and Adelheid Kortekaas
The designers of our symbol Pilgrim were in the spotlight in this fun TV report by RN7.
Thomas Hontelez: Walking as a natural state of being (interview)
“When I walk, and especially when I walk long distances, I can identify a bit with the primitive man who also wandered and walked for days, weeks, months.”