Stiphout

Today I cycled 118 km to the north of Weert to explore the area around Nuenen in North Brabant. Vincent van Gogh lived in Nuenen

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De Groote Peel

My 57 km cycle ride this morning was a return visit to De Groote Peel National Park near Miejel, Limburg. Belfort Vossenburg, which I first

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Maarheeze

I decided to have a short ride of just 42 km today and instead of planning my own route I copied one from the internet,

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Oirschot

I cycled 127 km today, by far the greatest one day distance ridden since I started cycling again last year. Essentially, today’s ride was a

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Heusden

Today I continued my mission to practice safe ‘social-separation’, whilst exercising outdoors, as prescribed by the Dutch authorities in light of the corona virus pandemic.

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Veluwepeel

75 years ago today, on the night of 7th February 1945, two RAF Halifax bombers were shot down near Veluwepeel, on the edge of De

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DAF Museum

I let the train take the strain today for the 20 minute journey into the centre of Eindhoven. I’ve used the Dutch railways quite a

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Vossenberg

Vantage points are rare in the flat Dutch countryside so I was very interested to learn that a new observation tower has recently been constructed

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America

Decided to cycle to America today. It’s quite a long way from home so I set off before 9am in the hope that I would

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Heythuysen

On this day, 17th November, 75 years ago, the Leudal area of Limburg was liberated from German occupation by Allied forces. To commemorate this historic

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