About Johan VN
Je eigen gedachtegang tijdens een korte of lange wandeltocht is soms wild, soms filosofisch … soms kom je tot inzichten die je ervoor niet had en andere keren ... heeft het gewoon enorm deugd gedaan 😄
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- Johan VNNovember 7, 2025
Animalinas Route 2025. Along this route, Rivierenland Nature Park mapped the animal species that live there, using murals by renowned graffiti artist Dzia. Teacher training students at Thomas More University College in Mechelen wrote short texts for the Animalinas artworks, which are narrated by well
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- Johan VNJune 17, 2025
Today a relatively short stage, with painful feet, as if they knew it would be over after this.
After a short walk we arrived at the Saint-Denis canal. Later this became the Saint-Martin canal. A very pleasant way to enter Paris this way.
There are a number of nice and beautiful places along the route
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- Johan VNJune 16, 2025
This morning we left our restaurant-hotel with a few guest rooms. Yesterday the restaurant was normally closed, but when we arrived there was a private party going on. Complete chaos actually, us with our sweaty outfit and backpack among chicly dressed people, some of whom were already quite drunk.
Probably
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- Johan VNJune 15, 2025
This morning we continued the early starts. It was pleasantly cool compared to previous days. A few steep climbs to get out of the village and crossing the same railway line three times to end up on a steep and long climb again. But the difference with previous days was that these were on an asphalt
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- Johan VNJune 14, 2025
Apparently there was another warm thunderstorm last night, more intense than the night before. I say apparently because I slept through it. But because of this the temperatures were very pleasant this morning.
After breakfast we started walking, out of the town of Senlis. After a good 2 km we turned
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- Johan VNJune 13, 2025
Last night we woke up because of a short but heavy thunderstorm in the area. We just managed to save our walking shoes, because they had been left outside.
As expected we left our sleeping place early (7:15), but we still had 1.5 km to go to the starting point with a tough and very long climb. So leaving
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- Johan VNJune 12, 2025
So yesterday we had a rest day and visited the magnificent castle of Pierrefonds. I added some photos to today's walk.
We left early this morning, or at least we tried to, because they said it was a fairly warm day.
We didn't really notice anything until the last 5 km. Simply because after the first kilometre
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- Johan VNJune 10, 2025
Today we set off early as planned, after the necessary warm-up of the muscles, for the longest hike with a full backpack.
Our host in Tartiers, an artist who makes ceramics, waved us goodbye from his bedroom attic window, and off we went.
Along the way a few steep climbs and again a beautiful varied landscape
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- Johan VNJune 9, 2025
Today the first of the last. The first stage of the last series of this GR12 Amsterdam-Paris. Up to the Notre-Dame in Paris. I feel that it will be an emotional end, not only because we will have made it, also because of that, but because I lost my father some time ago. He was a man of few words, he
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Today is day 2 on the Animalinas Route 2025.
We left before sunrise again to start hiking with the first light of the day.
The walk back was beautiful. I hadn't expected a relatively sunny day again. The weather gods waited until we were almost announced. Dzia's murals remain beautiful, especially those
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