Pieter Path Part 10 – Hellendoorn to Holten . From Hellendoorn to Holten It was hard to get up out of the comfortable bed this morning! However, a delicious breakfast was waiting! We wanted to have an early start to avoid the rainy weather rolling in in the afternoon. The weather had changed overnight, and …
Pieter Path Part 9 – Ommen to Hellendoorn . From Ommen to Hellendoorn On this hot summer day, we walked from Ommen to Hellendoorn over the Dutch “mountains,” the Sallandse Heuvelrug. Glaciers pushed these hills up during the last ice age about 150,000 years ago. The moraine is about 14 km long and has different …
Pieter Path Part 8 – Gramsbergen to Ommen . From Gramsbergen to Ommen We stayed the night in the B&B Stadslodge de Meiboom in the center of Gramsbergen with an industrial-looking B&B in a former bakery. The friendly owner brought a wicker basket with breakfast to our room at half-past seven, precisely at the agreed …
Pieter Path Part 7 – From Holsloot to Gramsbergen . From Holsloot to Gramsbergen We walked from Holsloot via the oldest fortified city of Drenthe, Coevorden, to Gramsbergen, Overijssel! We saw a lot of artwork today! Driftplein, iron skeletons represent the buildings you can see in Drenthe: farms, vacations cottages, and industrial buildings. A colossal …
Pieter Path Part 6 – From Ellertshaar to Holsloot . From Ellertshaar to Holsloot And one week later, we continued our Pieterpad hike. We walked some “Flinten” roads. These streets are silent reminders of this area’s labor-intensive job creation projects a century ago. We are still in Drenthe, now known by us by its forests, …
