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I did not do a pilgrimage in Spain yet (I started my ♿️ wheelchair pilgrimage in the netherlands 🇳🇱 and do every year a part of the route. "Now" I am in the south of France, Rocamadour) but in France I normally eat very simple food. Not just because i travel on a very low budget but also...
Since 2016 I do every tear a part of the camino by wheelchair. This year I was already packed but instead of 2 months (pilgrimage and travel time) camino in France from Rocamadour to the Spanish border I ended up for (back) surgery in hospital and had months of rehabilitation.
I look forward to...
I did it for a mix of reasons, just to be out of my daily life (as disabled single mother) and have some time for myself, but also time for prayer and reflection.
Also it was kind if a test about how much is possible to do for me as a wheelchair user. I started in the Neterlands in 2016 and...
Every year since 2016 I roll a part of the route from The Netherlands to Santiago by wheelchair.
2023 was the year for me that things went wrong... because my back hernia gave me a lot of trouble just a few days before I should leave for the stage from Rocamadour (where I finished in 2022) to...
My most special place for the night was the palace of the bishop in France.
How I ended up there is a too long story to write here, but I wrote a blog about it.
https://rolstoelpelgrim.nl/2020-vezelay-avallon-naar-taize/#pelgrim7
I love to roll (I "walk" by wheelchair) alone. My experience is that when I am on my own it is easier to have contact with local people and even find places to sleep at locals. That is what I love the most I think and then the next day I roll alone again through nature and enjoy the silence, my...
I work as volunteer in a medieval openairmuseum in the Netherlands (archeon) and I always try to get medieval pelgrim badges (replica's) from places I have been on pilgrimage. I prefer the religious ones and leave the naughty ones for others. It is still posible to get them, when you are...
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