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Map of Jan's homeless tour

A) Dom Square  B) Post Office at Neude Square C) Monastery Garden "Mariaplaats"  

D) Shopping mall "Hoog Catherijne" E) The Junk Tunnel  F) Free drug use space "De Stek" G) Jaarbeursplein

Description of the tour

The tour with Jan always commenced in the centre of Utrecht at Dom square. Here we would meet and just talk while waiting for that days participants. Jan is a very friendly character and would usually have a random member of the public engaged in conversation.

To begin with Jan gives a short introduction about himself and the tour, explaining how and why he came to be homeless.

 

From here the tour moves North towards Neude and the old post office, the site where he first slept rough on the streets. Next we move west towards the Monastery gardens for another interlude. All the while Jan is open to conversation and is happy to talk about anything you might like to bring up.

 

The Hoog Catherijne is next on the agenda, we enter through a back entrance to the the "bedroom of the Hoog". Jan leads us through the old building and outside to the sub-terranean streets of the infamous "Junk Tunnel". 

 

Onwards again through a once very dangerous tunnel to finish on Jaarbeursplein, the site where Jan had his accident as a young man.

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