The SP11 Day Trip B hike started immediately near the station and we quickly walked over the city walls to the green countryside. We followed the Berkel river, which, once again (since 2014), meanders through the open meadows. We saw beautiful country houses and striking farms. In Almen, we took a break and enjoyed a delicious warm lunch in the hotel cafe restaurant “De Hoofdige Boer.” Poet Staring put the village of Almen on the map with his poem about a stubborn farmer, Stuggink, “De Hoofdige Boer,” who did not want to use a newly built bridge and continued to wade through the river in his boots to go to church.