Month: March 2022

Stelling van Amsterdam

This route covers the defensive cordon of dykes and fortifications around Amsterdam, as part of the “Waterlinie”: starting at Volendam on the border of the former Zuiderzee, Northeast of Amsterdam, it runs westward, bends South crossing the NortSea-canal that connects the Amsterdam harbour with the North Sea, and then curves to the east and North again, to the Zuiderzee – the land outside this area would be flooded in order to block enemy access to Amsterdam. There are seven stages, and we walked them in autumn and winter of 2014 and 2015.

The route has been tracked and images have been taken but I still have to process them, but if done, these will be available here.

Willibrordpad

This is a long distance footpath along Dutch Basilica: Catholic churches that have given special meaning because of their architecture, artwork, extraordinary services. The route covers the Catholic areas in part North of the Rhine; this part of the Netherlands is mainly protestant, Catholics are a minority in this part, except in two regions: Around Utrecht, and the the Twente region – the province Overijssel used to be an extension of the diocese of Utrecht.
The route is not signposted, we used the booklet and I downloaded the GPS tracks. We walked this route in 21 stages between September 2013 and March 2015, not in sequence but we did cover the whole route, depending of facility of return trip (by public transport or, in some occasions, by bike). Our dog at the time accompanied us on these walks. Images and tracks cab be found here