Wednesday 30 August 2017

Summer 2017 Belgium/Texel

2017 post languishing in drafts...

Summer holidays in The Netherlands and Belgium and briefly Germany.


Lon and Greg went for a bike ride and cycled through the water. (Google: Fietsen door het water, Genk, if you want to know more)




 Via Germany to the highest point in The Netherlands, the place where three countries meet.


West Vleteren, the 12 has been voted the best beer in the world, I think I can agree.
The other two are also in the top ten if you ask me.


With the parents to Texel, the most western and biggest of the wadden islands, the isles in the north.
A tour in the Waddensea on a shrimping boat (very Forest Gump)


Famous Texel sheep

On the way back a stop in Alkmaar, no cheese market that day. 




Hazels father also came to visit and we went to Wijk bij Duurstede. One of the oldest cities (yes it is officially a city) in The Netherlands on the river Rijn.

Lon went for an organised bike tour (sportive) in the east of the country. Here a photo on the 'mountain' Posbank.

And of course the obligitory visit to Utrecht. Here the Nijntje (Miffy) trafic light. Unfortunately the artist from Utrecht, Dick Bruna (born on the same date as Lon), died 16 Feb.