From the end of May to the beginning of September 2022 we have been at home in the Netherlands and Belgium for more than 3 months. Maintenance was the keyword. Maintenance of our personal contacts, family and friends and maintenance of Milady Landy to prepare her for our great adventure, our journey around the world. Family and friends May and … Read more
Last Tuesday, June 21, 2022, we shared our travel story about about 8 months of traveling through a wintery Northern Europe. About 100 people in the room have breathlessly and attentively experienced our presentation and a little bit of our journey. Unfortunately, the video registration is not good enough for publication. BUT, during the Overlanders.be … Read more
We are en route to Scandinavia. After visiting friends and acquaintances in Friesland, we arrived in Denmark through Groningen and northern Germany. Denmark already really feels like Scandinavia and officially it is. Friesland (and Groningen) We first travel to Friesland because we were invited by Marieke and Leo to share Land Rover and travel experiences. … Read more
After our eventful trip in Morocco in 2020, we have been staying in the Netherlands for 10 months now.A look back. Looking back on an eventful time Last August we arrived in the Netherlands again after our start of the world trip to Morocco. From October 1, 2019 we were on our way to Morocco … Read more
From April 4 to May 2, 2021 we, Sonja and Gert Jan walk the Pieterpad, traveling for a month without our Milady Landy, she is parked in Breda. The Pieterpad is the longest long-distance path in the Netherlands from the northern Pieterburen in Groningen to the southern Sint-Pietersberg in Maastricht, Limburg, about 500 km long. … Read more
From Pieterburen to the Sint Pietersberg in Maastricht in 26 stages. Beforehand we should not have thought about walking 500km. But we made it and it feels good!Today is a last day through the hilly landscape of South Limburg, from Valkenburg to Maastricht, a beautiful stage. And what a satisfaction to have climbed the Pietersberg … Read more
In our penultimate stage we enter the Limburg hilly landscape, steep slopes up and down, which is quite an effort for our tired bodies. Fortunately the weather cooperates again, a strong sun in the morning and some coolness in the afternoon help us through the tough trip. We have pleasant conversations with “great-nephew” Bernard and … Read more
We had a cold night in the hiker’s cabin in Montfort and when we leave it is still gray and bleak. Fortunately we walk a beautiful walk through South Limburg and a piece of Germany. At the end of our journey, when we get tired, the sun comes to help us. We even end on … Read more
The day starts in Swalmen with a pleasant sun, despite the weather forecast with rain. Today a bit more hills and small streams in the Meuse valley. Later in the afternoon the wind picks up and the sun disappears behind the clouds and when we arrive tired in Montfort it is downright cold. However, it … Read more
We leave this morning without a coat, at 9 o’clock it is already pleasant to walk. Outside Venlo we walk directly into the forest, along the border with Germany and only at Swalmen we walk out of the forest, 23km later. How good we are! Literally outside Venlo we walk into the forest. Today we … Read more
