Crazy? Guy did the Nijmegen Marches at sea – on a treadmill!

A mentally not well Dane treadmill-walking on board the

pirate-hunter HDMS Esbern Snare.

So what to do if you are sure to miss your 14^th participation in the Four Day Marches in Nijmegen? Commander Thorbjørn Hein from Denmark was in this unfortunate situation. A naval staff officer, he is currently on board HDMS Esbern Snare in the Indian Ocean as part of NATO’s counter-piracy Operation Ocean Shield; he had to look at alternative ways to get his annual Nijmegen fix.

Read below to see what he did.

Nijmegen Treadmill 2014: Hein, der peger på OMI-mærket

Bum, så var det der, det seneste "Hein, der peger på OMI-mærket"-billede. Jeg sagde jo, jeg havde noget oppe i ærmet, John.

Tak for mærket, OMI, det kommer da rundt i verden!

Artiklen om selve marchen findes her (på engelsk).

Rosenborg Eksercerplads, 1920

Genforeningen med Sønderjylland i 1920 blev også markeret i København. Bl.a. ved to parader (for udenlandske kontingenter, som havde deltaget i genforeningen) på Rosenborg Eksercerplads.

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ONE WEEK till Vier Daagse, a.k.a. The Nijmegen Marches

Have a good one, all of you that going to the Netherlands. The march starts ONLY ONE WEEK from now. Your faithful blog editor says: lucky bastards.

/Thorbjørn