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From: Hugo Zweep <Zweep at bigpond.com>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2008.06.22 (03) [E]

Fred and Andrys as well as others might like to know that there is now an
official starting point for the Camino de Santiago in Groningen - apparently
recently opened (inaugurated) by Cardinal Simonis. You can see details of it
on www.jacobspad.nl,

I completed the Camino between St Jean de Pied de Port and Santiago at the
end of April and from there went to the Netherlands and walked for about 10
days following the Wad en Wierdenpad to Nieuwe Schans and then a further
80km or so of the Noaberspad along the German/Dutch border. The main
objective was to take a good long and slow look around where I grew up in
the 1940s but also to see whether there were still many Lowlands speakers
and whether I could be understood. That was a mildly surprising experience
and I'll try and write about it for the Travel section later this year.

In doing the Wierdenpad you coincide with the new Jacobspad for about 10km.
Not knowing about the existence of that extension at the time I wondered why
I was seeing the Camino markers familiar from Spain. Still, the official
path in the Netherlands isn't nearly as much fun as Andrys' version seems to
be. I recommend the Andrys pilgrimage to anyone who might be too seriousl
about the spiritual elevation of the official path.

Hugo Zweep

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