Middelburg Travel Blogs

After 2 days of beach hiking and relaxing we wanted to do a longer bike tour so we've choosen the city of Middelburg which is the capital of Zeeland. It's an old city aswell. It has been built around 880. It has a long maritime history. For a long time it was after Amsterdam the most important trad…

Foundation   Tracing back the history of the Abbey it is possible to demonstrate from written documents, charters and cartularies, that the foundation of the Middelburg-Abbey took place about 1123. At first it was a daughter-institution of the Abbey of Vormezele, near Ieperen in Flanders, wh…

Vanmorgen werden we om een uur of acht wakker. Dat was lekker op tijd, want om 8.30 uur zou de ontbijtzaal open gaan. Gelukkig kwamen we er op tijd achter dat de klok een uur teruggezet had moeten worden de afgelopen nacht, anders hadden we toch mooi een uur te vroeg geweest. Eenmaal aan het ontbij…

My mini trip to the dutch seaside.

Mieke and I did a 9 day bike trip around the Netherlands, it was great, the weather was amazing, the sheep were friendly, the bikes behaved, we really had a great time, and it was a great way to see the country

Tomorrow at six a.m. it is finally going to happen: we're leaving for the airport to catch our plane to Indonesia! After almost six months of preparing, planning and training Niek, Hagar, Robbert and me are going te make a three week biking trip through Bali and Lombok. Since I've never been out of…

Photos taken along the way while geocaching.

all about me and my homecountry

Today is the day I’ve been looking forward too. Walking from the Netherlands to France. But today is also the day that I must work for a long time. It wasn't possible to take a day off, because the most of my colleges were on holiday (lucky them). Well the alarm clock start ringin…

At least once a month my wife and I do something fun to break with daily routine. Sometimes we go to a concert, a movie or an event nearby. But often we go on a trip to explore the rest of our tiny yet beautiful country. Here are the photos and, if I have enough time on my hands, the stories to go with them. :)

Poland, Berlin and Amsterdam, and lots more. Wales lost 1-0.

Kommt noch...

Lately I'm discovering my own country. The last 10 years or so I was always abroad. Various places and countries. Nowadays we decided to stay in Holland. Due o the fact that we have both new jobs. So with car, bike or hike we are checking out the area we live in and move further from there. Every …

We had 13 days to explore the northern parts of France, Belgium and The Netherlands. Off we set on the 10th June in trusty Bertie, our little VW Polo, our bikes and a tent.....little did we know how much it woud rain, and rain and rain..