Leg number 2 – another 23 kilometers (more or less) on a bright, sunny day. We started where we stopped last time: at the Drienerlo raiulway station, next to the FC Twente football stadium. The route has been diverted but signalling was poor – but keeping the same direction – towards the bridge crossing the Twentekanaal – we got back on track.
Passing old footpaths along meadows in the Twekkelo area – where people thrive to keep these old lanes open – to Boekelo. This village is where salt mining started in the 1920’s. You still see the little green barns everywhere, where steam in injected in the slat domes deep underground, and salt water is returned. The Boekelo Tourist Office houses in a black drikking tower.
From there we entered one of the largest estates in the area: Twickels. Every farm that belongs to the estate has black-and-white blinds aside the windows. The estate is famous for it’s nature reservation work. In the midst of the estate is the village of Beckum. From there, we followed one of the paths used by people to go to church – through low-lying woords – and in bad weather conditions, it must have been a hard walk of several kilometers – in muddy conditions.But the weather has been fair the previous week and today – so no mud-walk for us.
Again, the walk has been tracked (in Garmin, general and CSV formats) and a number of pictures have been taken