{"id":5777,"date":"2014-06-26T00:21:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2014-06-26T00:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:22:39","slug":"the-dutch-pilgrims-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=5777","title":{"rendered":"The Dutch Pilgrims Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

In medieval times pilgrims from all over Europe walked to\u00a0the shrine of the apostle St. James the Great in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain. Nowadays there are still pilgrims, but also many people who like long-distance walking. My late friend Yian walked the Camino, as it is called, from the French border to Santiago, a couple of years ago and kept a fascinating diary<\/a>\u00a0of this pilgrimage. Four years ago my friend Paul and I walked a part of the Dutch Pilgrims Path, which starts in Amsterdam and connects near Maastricht to the Belgian Camino. You can\u00a0find a report here<\/a>. We walked from Weert to nearby Heerlen in four days. This time we wanted to continue our “pilgrimage”, so we took the train from Amsterdam to the small village of Nuth, where we had ended our walk four years ago. Walking in the southern part of the Netherlands is a pleasure, it is an undulating\u00a0landscape, mainly agricultural, with picturesque villages and castles. \"Pilgrims<\/a> Here is a collection of pictures showing the paths we have been walking. It is not always possible to avoid the tarmac, but most of the time\u00a0we walked on unpaved roads<\/p>\n\n\t\t