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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to the members Gocamino listserv</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am Jan Brilleman, born may 1949 at Amsterdam, the
Netherlands.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In 1991 I got a book from my daughter about the
Pelgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>from that time I was interested, but had no
possibility to do it myselve.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In 1993 we, my wife Erna and I, started trekking
monthly, with our neighbours Heinz and Janneke,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>following one of the many foothpaths in Holland.
One of these foothpaths is called "Pelgrimspad",</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>foothpath for pilgrimes, and is associated with the
Pilgrimage to St. James from the Netherlands.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This path starts in Amsterdam and ends at the
border with Belgium in the south. In 1998 the four </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of us came there and then we decided to go to
Santiago de Compostela together.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I got permission of a sabbatical-time of four
months from my colleages in business. So, monday 22nd</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of march 1999, the birthday of Erna, we started to
walk at the border with Belgium and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>we walked through Belgium, France and the Camino in
Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Our arrival</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>was the 6th of july 1999.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I made a dairy of our journey, which was the time
of our lives, and after I bought a computer I wrote it out</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and my brother-in-law put it on the internet. If
you can read Dutch or if you want to see a part</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of our pictures, you can find it on:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.brilleman-2.myweb.nl">www.brilleman-2.myweb.nl</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The subject 'Pilgrimage to Santiago' is, more or
less, becoming rather popular in Holland: for the last</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>three months I got more than 4000 hits monthly to
my site and mails of people interested for our journey</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>with questions and compliments.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At the end of this january we, the four of us, are
in a program on Dutch television in an item about pilgrimage!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am interested in Gocamino Listserv because after
our Pilgrimage this journey has never been out</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of my mind, I collect everything about the subject,
I want to know everything about the subject, I want</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to help everyone who has plans to go to Santiago de
Compostela.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is very shortly the story of Erna and Jan
Brilleman and of course, Heinz and Janneke, our neighbours.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you have comments or questions send them to us,
we will answer as soon as possible.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jan Brilleman</FONT></DIV>
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