{"id":221279,"date":"2026-05-26T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/221279\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:54:08","slug":"barry-gepken-begonnen-aan-derde-pelgrimstocht-je-loopt-je-de-kop-leeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/221279\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Gepken begonnen aan derde pelgrimstocht: &#8216;Je loopt je de kop leeg&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Na pelgrimstochten naar Rome en Jeruzalem heeft Barry Gepken opnieuw de wandelschoenen aangetrokken. Afgelopen zondag, op Eerste Pinksterdag, vertrok de Ericaan richting de katholieke bedevaartsplaats F\u00e1tima in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Een tocht van 3.500 kilometer. &#8220;In goede gezondheid doe ik er zo&#8217;n viereneenhalve maand over&#8221;, zegt Gepken.<\/p>\n<p>Een beetje strunen is het niet. In de zomermaanden bepakt met een rugzak van 20 kilo kilometers wandelen. &#8220;En ik ga ook de Pyrynee\u00ebn over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waarom de 52-jarige Gepken zich weer zo&#8217;n pelgrimstocht op de hals haalt? &#8220;Het bleef toch kriebelen. Ik ben ondertussen weer alleen in m&#8217;n leven en wilde dit graag nog een keer alleen doen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tijdens de tochten naar Rome in 2018 en Jeruzalem in 2023 werd Gepken nog vergezeld door zijn toenmalige vriendin en hond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Na pelgrimstochten naar Rome en Jeruzalem heeft Barry Gepken opnieuw de wandelschoenen aangetrokken. Afgelopen zondag, op Eerste Pinksterdag,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[15],"tags":[41650,39,40,48,29685,41652,43,44,2341,34,35,41,42,5771,46,47,49,45,32,33,50,41651,2079,36,37,38,9432,67,64,65,66],"class_list":["post-221279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wereld","tag-barry-gepken","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dutch","tag-erica","tag-fatima","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-gemeente-emmen","tag-headlines","tag-hoofdpunten","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-leestip","tag-nederland","tag-nederlanden","tag-nederlands","tag-netherlands","tag-news","tag-nieuws","tag-nl","tag-pelgrimstocht","tag-portugal","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-voorpaginanieuws","tag-wandelen","tag-wereld","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@nl\/116643343027290323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}