One of the reasons we were back in Central Europe was our son, who was getting his master degree at the University of Utrecht. Together with Cordy’s parents, we travelled with our respective campers from Vienna to Utrecht to celebrate with him. On the way through Germany, we stopped at Würzburg to visit the castle […]
After crossing Belgium in 2 days, we stopped at the first Dutch town, which was Breda. We used an official camper area along a canal, from where we could easily walk into the centre. Coming to the Netherlands without a bike is a mistake of course, but as we were on the way to Africa,
We went to explore the tallest building of Utrecht, the Domtoren, which is also the tallest church tower of the whole Netherlands with 112.5 metres in height and the symbol of Utrecht. 465 steps also make it a good work out, luckily we stopped several times on the way up, to admire the interior and
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Utrecht is the fourth-largest city of the Netherlands in the very centre of the country, and home of the largest university of the Netherlands. As our son studies here, we already visited Utrecht a couple of times. Together we went to explore the centre at night. Utrecht Centraal is the busiest train station in the country and surrounded
Our last destination in the Netherlands before we will be back to Germany was Menkemaborg, a manor house in the North of Groningen which is presented as if the occupants of the 18th century just had left. Menkemaborg Menkemaborg is an originally 14th-century, brick-built house, which was dramatically altered around 1700 but has since been
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We had checked in at a very nice camping, where we could rent kayaks and explore the North of Groningen also per bike. Camping Marenland We were so happy about the good weather, although it was not very warm. At our camping we rented a kayak and did a tour around the channels of Winsum
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In Eenrum, in the province of Groningen, we found a tiny factory where mustard is produced in the traditional way. We were interested how mustard is made, so we went for a visit. Abrahams Mosterdmakerij also has a windmill 🙂 Historical shop still in use Mill to crush the mustard seeds We could watch a
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In 1774 a wool comber from Franeker in the Netherlands built a model of the solar system in his living room, which is still the oldest functional and the largest mechanical orrery worldwide. Something we had to see!! Orrery from 1774 automatically displays the correct date until today The little town of Franeker lies in
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Our friend Hubert took us to the Louwman Museum just outside of Den Haag, which was the best museum on the history of cars we had visited up to now. The collection is incredibly comprehensive and so well presented, it was amazing. The collection of over two hundred cars has been assembled since 1934 by
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In Den Haag we went to visit a good friend, but had some time for one of the many museums this city offers. We chose the fotomuseum where the work of 3 different photographers were shown at that time. Eddy Posthuma De Boer, born in 1931, is one of the most important post-war Dutch photographers.
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