As the bird flies, it is a little distance – and by train just 6 minutes from station to station, but all in all the walk is almost 30 kilometers – an S-shaped track, with the last 2.5 kilometers off route to get to the station in Goor
Starting in Delden at the railway station (opened , the residence of the Twickel estate, a large part of the route ran over paths on the estate, passing a restored mill, the base being laid out before 1350; at that point we crossed another long distance footpath we’ve done before (Marskramerpad, from Deventer to Oldenzaal (LAW3-1)), and we covered the same region, only several kilometers North of this path, until we reached the TwenteKanaal – where we kept following the canal, but the Marskeamerpad crossed the bridge.
We had our rest in the restaurant “De Markenrichter” – where the people in the area took care of their own business: making appointments, right would be spoken in case of failure – before Napolean rule closed the habit that had been there (and working well ) for ages….
In the area named “Kerspel Goor” we lost the signs – probably the route has been diverted because of works on removing asbest-polluted surface so the path was officially closed. But since the soil had been removed, we simply kept to our path according the booklet; the distance was just a two-hundred meters.It was only on the detour to Goor that we found the white-red signs again. What happened with the track, we don’t know.
Of course, the route has been tracked in Garmin, general and CSV formats – and because it’s such a nice environment, there are quite a few pictures.