Despite sore feet, Merel enjoyed her first Four Days Marches: “This was really, really fun. Like one big party,” describes 11-year-old Merel Vreugdenhil from Hoogland about the Nijmegen Four Days Marches. An unforgettable experience. “It feels like carnival, but walking. It was so much fun.” Her feet did ‘hurt a little bit,’ but stopping for that? Merel, one of the youngest participants in the Nijmegen Four Days Marches, doesn’t do that. In fact, at the time of speaking, about 6 kilometers before the finish on the road called Via Gladiola, she had no time for it. There was simply too much to see, hear, and experience. “The first three days, I felt my feet at the end of the day. But the last day was really, really fun. People were everywhere along the route, and children had candies and cucumbers. It’s nothing like the evening four days. There’s so much music and joy,” she beams. “So much distraction – walking is going just fine.”
