sleeping rough

Backblipping my days at the vierdaagse in nijmegen

Pipp's blip that day greedy ducks and invincible fish

These were the sleeping arrangements. A bit rough especially considering the average age in the group (I felt young!) but so much closer to the start/finish than many alternatives - something I sure appreciated every day after the first one.

We are going to spend 5 nights in that room with late middle age to elderly danish hikers, many of whom snore. And we chose to be here :)

Monday is a day of preparation and waiting.

We wandered about, found a fruit merchant, a sroopwaffeln (sp?) merchant, tired sate, listened to lots of different bands (still with that "common" set of music that I mentioned yesterday, football songs, traditional songs - songs we would hear a lot on the march etc.)

I forgot to mention Sunday's "you have to be kidding" moment, where we passed a stage with a german band in a mix of folk and village people costumes singing the old heidi TV series tune. With the crowd singing along and going wild. Eerie, just eerie.

We tried to guess whether the people we saw were hikers or partyers...

Tomorrow we start just after 5, so bed early.

The snoring just didnt help :(

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Sunday 13 (travel) my blip - pippiline's blip

Monday 14 (waiting) my blip - pippiline's blip

Tuesday 15 (walking - the easy day) my blip - pippiline's blip

Wednesday 16 (walking - the tough day) my blip

Thursday 17 (walking - the better day) my blip - pippiline's blip

Friday 18 (walking - pain and determination) my blip - pippiline's blip