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04-Oct-2008 * The track of this walk. Start and Finish in Austerlitz, on the Dorpsplein (actaully, Het Treftpunt on the Northern end of this square). We parked nearby.Our rest was at De Piramide; another place to start. * 1289 x 615 * (550KB)
Google * The walk projected on GoogleEarth. Not so may pictures this time... * 1315 x 616 * (278KB)
01-WetPath * On entering the woods, the track was wet - the trenches created by heavy machinery used in works in the woods. The stems lay futher on aside the path * 1488 x 1984 * (559KB)
02-NewNature * This area has been cleared from trees some time ago - it should form heather lands or a place where the wind can form sand dunes. * 5411 x 1435 * (1.2MB)
03-Wallenberg * The location of the former house named Wallenberg. The only remains is the well in front, and a hedge where the house used to be. The fundaments are likely below this. * 1984 x 1488 * (616KB)
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04-Tussocks * Where trees have been cut, the grass forms tussocks - sign of a somewaht wet area. * 1984 x 1488 * (550KB)
05-Sodded * An area that is sodded - the top layer removed, in order to have heahter re-appear (heather seed can sprout after many, many years) * 1984 x 1488 * (674KB)
06-Star * A todstool in the form of a star. Not too common... * 1984 x 1488 * (367KB)
07-SmallerStars * but here, a small bunch pops out of old beech leaves * 1984 x 1488 * (488KB)
08-Pyramid * Napolean troops that were encamped near Austerlitz needed something to do - and they built a piramid; The tower on top is an addition of much later days. The pyramid has been restored only a few years ago, but even today it's not entirely certain how the French soldiers were able to keep the slopes together. * 1984 x 1488 * (295KB)
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09-Stub * A trunk covered with todstools. * 1658 x 1110 * (573KB)
10-Valley * The landscape North of Woudenberg - the flat lands of the Geldersche Vallei * 3732 x 1088 * (354KB)
11-Berghuis * Just a 2 kilometres from Autserlitz, the Utrechtse Heuvelrug raises - the white house (named Berghuis lies on the summit of a road tht climbs steadily - about 15 meters in a few hundred meters * 1791 x 987 * (238KB)
12-StoopsCopula * A small buil;ding named Stoops Copula on top of it's own hill. We were to pass it on the right. * 1984 x 1488 * (669KB)
13-ChildrensCorso * Arriving in Austerlitz, a Childrren's Corso was due to set off. One of the carrages - themed Jungle - had a cage on it with these little tigers. * 1488 x 1984 * (632KB)
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