36 km Our destination today was Noordwjik. The weather was bad, grey sky and rain the whole day, so we headed to the Space Expo. The Campings along the coast were full, so we end up a little inland at the Camping Koningshof near Leiden. Vakantiepark Koningshof expensiv camping, very crowded in summer, with an …
Today we visited the impressive modern market hall building, where we had breakfast at a couple of different stalls – you can sample very delicious food here. market hall from the outside …and from the inside Just opposite are the Kubus buildings, where you can visit one of the houses in this crazy shape. …
94 km In the morning we took the bikes to visit the Oosterschelde storm surge barrier, which was only a short ride from the caravan park. We cycled along the barrier until we reached an interesting lock, before we turn around and cycled back home. Oosterschelde barrier We left the Kamperland caravan park and …
Veere from the ferry We took the bike again, to get to the ferry from Kamperland to Veere. Arriving there, we looked around this lovely town for a bit – little houses full of flowers, small shops, a pretty harbour with a drawbridge, city walls, town hall and restaurants. Veere We continued for 8 km …
189 km From Eindhoven, we drove north to Den Bosch, or ‘s-Hertogenbosch, where we parked at the P&R Transferium Willemspoort Vlijmenseweg. You could take the bus from there into the center, which comes regularly, but we chose the bikes, as it is that easy to cycle around in the Netherlands. We made a boat tour …
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164km On the 27th, we left Maastricht and took just one turn to be in Belgium. We visited friends there, before we drove back into the Netherlands to Eindhoven, where we stopped at the P&R Meerhoven for the night. Its only 3,- for the night at a big parking with a bus stop in front …
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After breakfast outside, we took the bikes again to go into town. Today the shops were open and the city was very busy. We walked around the center, looking at the old wall, a remaining city gate and different churches. We stopped at the bakery De Bisschopsmolen, where we had a look at the old …
321km The next day we drove on through Germany past Aachen and finally reached the Netherlands. There is no border control of course, but immediately the style of the houses changes and you see many more people use their bikes to go around. Our first stop was at the Dreilandenpunt near Vaals. …
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558 km We left from Austria the 24th of July where we had spent one week at the Yota Camp in Wagrain, organising with many others this event for 120 youngsters of 22 different countries. Have a look at http://www.ham-yota.com/austria/ to find out more. The day we left Wagrain, we stopped at the Liechtensteinklamm in St. …
Summer 2016 we visited the Netherlands for the first time, travelling with our new caravan. We had about 2 weeks to get to know the country, which we spent doing a circle in the south, visiting the following places: Maastricht Eindhoven Den Bosch Veere Middelburg Rotterdam Leiden Gouda Delft Utrecht Hoorn Enkhuizen Lemmer Giethoorn Enschede …
