Kiefernsee

This morning’s 33 km cycle ride was a nice loop through forests and moorland to the north of Heerlen. I had barely started the ride

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Imstenraderbos

Today’s exercise consisted of a very cold 10km walk through local woodlands. It was barely zero degrees when I set off to find a posted

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Cranenweyer

August has been a fairly intensive cycling month so far. I have already completed ten rides totalling 522 kilometres. Therefore today was designated a ‘rest

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Schiffelerveld

Today’s outdoor exercise took the form of a 4.4 km walk through woodlands in the Schiffelerveld area to the east of Heerlen centre. The midday

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Minus Nine

The Netherlands is in the grip of an extreme cold spell resulting from Storm Darcy which has swept across much of Europe this week. There

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Local Walk

Cycling in sub-zero temperatures is not much fun. Factor in the wind chill at my normal riding speeds of around 25-30 km/h and the whole

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Valkenburg

We’ve just returned from a two day break in the lovely town of Valkenburg in south Limburg. With all the various travel restrictions in different

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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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Farewell 2019

It’s been an interesting year for me here in the Netherlands. At the end of April I acquired a second-hand bicycle as I needed some

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Colours

Autumn has been with us for just over a week and the change in the colours surrounding us has been very quick. High winds are

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