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Day 51-57 of walking to Santiago de Compostela from the Netherlands. This was the week in which learned to let go of the pace I had set myself (at least a little) and do what felt right in the moment. Just because you know you can walk 30 kilometers, doesn't mean you have to. I had met a lovely group of people and after spending two days with them I had planned to continue on my own as they walked shorter distances. But I actually didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I had great conversation over dinner that evening with a pilgrim who travelled by bike, but at night I was stressing out about where to go the next day.

In the morning I set out not really knowing my plan for the day and the weather was much colder and rainier than I had anticipated, so I wasn't dressed appropriately. After a while I got incredibly cold but luckily I stumbled apon a road-side café which happened to be open. While I was warming up I decided that I would only walk a short distance that day, to the place the group from the previous days had said they were going to go.

Even though I had only spent a short time with them it was so nice to see the three other pilgrims again and I was surprised how easily I fitted in with the group. One of the others was French so he had a much easier time arranging accomodation and offered to book for me as well, and I decided their little group for the moment. After over fifty days being mostly by myself, it was really nice to have someone else do the decision-making for me and just focus on walking from A to B.

10 pictures. You can view the rest of my posts about my journey in this collection: https://pixelfed.social/c/786952650105245859

#Camino #CaminoDeSantiago #Hiking #Pilgrimage #France #Selfie #Pèlerinage #CheminDeCompostelle #CheminDeStJacques #Pelgrimstocht #Wandelen #Travel
A selfie of a white person wearing a pink cap and smiling. I am wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt and a large blue backpack. In the background is grass and further away a line of trees.
Red rosehips among leaves, some of which have started to turn yellow.
Over twenty cow standing side by side in a pasture. They are all turned towards the camera. The sky is bright blue.
A courtyard in front of a small castle, which is partly obscured by bushes to the right. The gate is closed.
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Day 44-50 of walking to Santiago de Compostela from the Netherlands. After walking together with two Flemish pilgrims for some days I had to say goodbye to them. It felt strange to continue on my own again; somehow on the road just one day spent with someone can feel like a week.

And eventhough I was already living day by day (quite unusual for me), I was challenged further with a rather sudden change to my plans. On a day where I had planned to walk 32 kilometers I fell and hurt my knee after only a couple of kilometers. I had to cancel my accomodation and ring up a closer hostel in French. I strongly dislike phonecalls in any language, but the added stress of having to speak a language that I'm not fluent in didn't help. Still, when I finally arrived at my new destination I felt incredibly calm. It feels good knowing that you can rely on yourself.

10 pictures. You can view the rest of my posts about my journey in this collection: https://pixelfed.social/c/786952650105245859

#Camino #CaminoDeSantiago #Hiking #Pilgrimage #France #Bourges #Pèlerinage #CheminDeCompostelle #CheminDeStJacques #Pelgrimstocht #Wandelen #Travel
Two pilgrim walking away from the camera on a road through the woods. They are carrying large backpacks. The left backpack has a scallop shell attached to it and a baguette is stickingout of the front pocket of the right backpack.
A scallop shell hanging on the trunk of a tree. Aboven it is a French sign that reads "when leaving for the way of Saint James I was looking for nothing and I found it"
A white hand holding up a small pear that I found
Stained glass windows in a dark church. The windows consist of three main panels, each showing a church building with beneath it a church figure nealing in front of a holy person.
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Day 36-42 of walking to Santiago de Compostela from the Netherlands. By now it was early September, and while it could still be pretty warm during the day, the mornings started to get chilly and there was more rain. For the first time in France, I met another Dutch pilgrim. We walked some parts of the trail together, but after a few days we parted ways as I walked longer distances. Not long after, I met two women from Belgium with whom I walked as well and had some great converstations.

It was nice to meet more people, and feel less alone. Especially when I heard the first gun shots and got a little scared for the actual start of the hunting season. It's much harder to be scared when you're walking with other people.

I also stayed with the nuns in Troyes, camped for the last time and after walking 943 kilometers I arrived in the famous town of Vézelay where I visited the Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine.

10 pictures. You can view the rest of my posts about my journey in this collection: https://pixelfed.social/c/786952650105245859

#Camino #CaminoDeSantiago #Hiking #Pilgrimage #France #Vézelay #Pèlerinage #CheminDeCompostelle #CheminDeStJacques #Pelgrimstocht #Wandelen #Travel
A field during a foggy morning. To the left is some grass with a few trees. To the right is a barren field with a barn barely visible in the distance because of the fog.
A sober, somewhat old-fashioned looking bedroom. A large, bright blue backpack is leaning against the bed. To the left is a colourful quilt on the wall and above the headboard of the bed a cross is hanging.
A sunny day with a bright blue sky. To the left is a French townhall with a bench in front of it and ahead, further in the distance, is a small church.
A country lane partly in the sun, partly covered in shade by the trees on the left. To the right are several large fields that are separeted by rows of trees and which have already been harvested.
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Day 29-35 of walking to Santiago de Compostela from the Netherlands. After exactly three weeks of walking, I arrived in Reims at the end of August. From some kilometers away I could already see the spires of the cathedral and for the first time I realised that I had already come quite far. Sure, I still had a long way to go to Santiago, but I had also already walked over 600 kilometers to a place that in itself is a worthy destination.

I decided to stay an extra night to have a little time to relax and walk around the city, but in truth I only found it stressful and couldn't wait to be out of the city again to continue walking. While before Reims I mostly encountered barren farm land, went I left the city I started to see more vineyards and I started to feel like I was really in France.

You can view the rest of my posts about my journey in this collection: https://pixelfed.social/c/786952650105245859

#Camino #CaminoDeSantiago #Hiking #Pilgrimage #France #Reims #Pèlerinage #CheminDeCompostelle #CheminDeStJacques #Pelgrimstocht #Wandelen #Travel
A view of the cathedral of Reims, looking up towards the spires from the side. On the top half of the cathedral is visible and in the bottom left part of a tree obscures part of the view.
The top of a house with two windows with their blinds closed. At the top of the widows some swallow nests are attached to the brick wall and a few swallows are flying around, mostly visible because of their shadows in the bright light.
A narrow street in the shadows, that is slowly sloping down. In the distance a car is parked to the left and further away fields are visible. In the front to the left a rose bush is growing against the house and the branches are framing the top of the picture. To the right is a building covered in ivy and a late-afternoon sun is shining on the mossy roof.
A grass trail leading down through a vineyard. The vineyard is large and extents downwards and to the right. In the distance is a village along a river, with fields and trees on the other side.
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Day 22-28 of walking to Santiago the Compostela from the Netherlands. During this week I entered France, where I would be walking for the next seven weeks. I slept in an accomodation for pilgrims for the first time and, although I was alone, I got to read about the pilgrims who had stopped by before me in the guest book. The last entry was from only three days ago and it was nice knowing there were other people not too far ahead.

I also had my first fall, which luckily only resulted in a few scratches, got to sleep in a community building in a village without any official accomodation, stayed with a lovely Dutch couple living in France, and saw the landscape around me change from forests and small farms to endless bare fields.

#Camino #CaminoDeSantiago #Hiking #Pilgrimage #France #Pèlerinage #CheminDeCompostelle #CheminDeStJacques #Pelgrimstocht #Wandelen #Travel
A large blue backpack lying on a bench in a park. A scallop shell is hanging from it by a thread and socks and underware are attached to the bag with clothes pegs.
A view of a river with, on the other side to the left a village in front of a hill. On top of the hill part of a fort is visible. To the right, on this side of the river, are grass and some bushes.
In the center a grass path leading away in the distance. To the left is a field of corn plants and to the right is a dry field with bales of hay. Further down the path is an electricity pole.
A picture taken while crossing a river, looking down. My feet and hiking poles are just visible and it is clear that the bridge is only wide enough for one person. There is no handrail. Below the ridge is a very shallow river with some rocks in it.
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Day 15-21 of walking to Santiago the Compostela from the Netherlands, during which I crossed most of Belgium . At this point I started to feel less like I was on a holiday and it started to feel more like a pilgrimage. Although I really wasn't that far from my home yet, walking everywhere really changes how you experience distances and I started to feel a bit lost. My first night in Belgium I stayed with parents of a friend of mine, but after that I really had no clear plan and had no idea when I would encounter any other pilgrims. As a result my mood wasn't the best, but I think it's one of those things you have to go through to know you'll be fine. And I was! Afterwards I definitely had a few moments where I struggled with certain things, but not quite like this week.

#Camino #CaminoDeSantiago #Hiking #Pilgrimage #Belgium #Liège #Pèlerinage #CheminDeCompostelle #CheminDeStJacques #Pelgrimstocht #Wandelen #Travel
A view of my seemingly bare legs when sitting on the ground. I'm wearing hiking shoes and bright green socks. My hand is holding a can of beans in tomato sauce with a spoon in it.
A deserted abbey in the forest. The windows are boarded up and the picture is quite dark.
A gloomy view of a river that runs through Liège. In the distance is a white bridge and along the river are buildings, some older and smaller and some grey high rise apartment buildings.
Part of a houseboat with some bushes in the front and trees behind it. On top of the boat are a few chairs and some plants.
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It's been exactly a week since I arrived home after 117 days of walking from my home in the East of the Netherlands to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain. Here a few pictures from the first week, which had me walking in Germany for a couple of days, after which I crossed the border back into the Netherlands. I was filled with excitement and wonder those first days, and despite some rain as well as some incredibly hot days I was enjoying every minute of it (minus that time I ran out of water- longest 3 kilometers of my life). #Camino #CaminoDeSantiago #Hiking #Germany #Jakobsweg #Pilgerweg #Pilgrimage #Kevelaer #Pelgrimstocht #Wandelen #Travel
A green brownish one-person tent in the sun. In front of it is a pair of hiking shoes and clothes are drying on the guy lines and on a line going from the tent to the bushes behind it.
A brick castle with a moat around it. The largest tower is surrounded by scaffolding.
A close-up of a trail marker on a tree trunk covered in moss. The marker is blue with a yellow symbol of a shell on it and reads "Pilgerweg".
A large bird is sitting on one of the few remaining branches of a dead tree on the opposite side of a river.
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Een late Pelgrim op de Melkweg.
Hans Annink.

Een retourtje Enschede – Santiago de Compostela 5000 km te voet.

#Pelgrimstocht SantiagodeCompostela #Camino

Het werd dus wandelen naar Santiago de Compostela en ….... terug. Een tocht die een jaar zou duren. Hij vertrok op 2 november 1977 vanuit Enschede.

Hans verbergt zijn emoties niet en vanaf de start van de tocht wordt je gegrepen door zijn belevenissen.

Voor mij was dit boek de aanleiding om jaren later zelf naar Santiago te fietsen.

Hans Annink Compostela Register
Compostela register Nederlands Genootschap van Sint Jacob Hans Annink
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Een late Pelgrim op de Melkweg.
Hans Annink.

Een retourtje Enschede – Santiago de Compostela 5000 km te voet.

#Pelgrimstocht #SantiagodeCompostela

Als we in Nederland praten over Camino de Santiago dan mag de naam Hans Annink niet ontbreken. Hans heeft zijn #camino gelopen in een tijd dat deze pelgrimstocht bijna was vergeten.

In 1976 kreeg Hans een zeer zwaar motorongeluk. Revalidatie duurde anderhalf jaar. Hans gebruikte deze tijd om helder te krijgen wat te doen met zijn leven.

Hans Annink Pelgrim Camino de Santiago
Een late pelgrim op de Melkweg Hans Annink
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