Valkenburg Travel Blogs

Monuments Ever since the Roman occupation there have been marlstone quarries and have Valkenburg inhabitants built their castles, farms and houses from this soft yellow stone. The municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul has got nearly 200 officially listed monuments, remarkable buildings, some of w…

Valkenburg aan de Geul, the multifaceted marl town, is one of the most enchanting places of the Netherlands. It’s a charming, exuberant, extremely varieted and above all very cosy city. The river Geul flows right through the centre of Valkenburg, where it appears more like a mountain stream tha…

A weekend in Valkenburg. A little town in the south of the Netherlands, pronvince Limburg.

To make the day complete, we had a great lunch at Château St. Gerlach. This 12-century castle is situated in a baroque garden. This castle is owned by Camille Oostwegel. It is not my first visit to a castle from Camille Oostwegel. I have dined in another castle. Unfortunately it is not cheap, but …

This year I was very busy with all kinds of projects etc. so somethimes you need a quick break, to get some new and positive energy. My sort trip was to Valkenburg in the southen of Limburg in the Netherlands. We had a great and cozy hotel in the city centre of Valkenburg. And there …

I went everyday to Valkenburg, to train (I was a good cycle racer) I always trained in the mountains of Valkenburg, such as the Cauberg. So Valkenburg was my first and worst love, because the mountains are very heavy! Except for the training aspect I went a few times to Valkenburg to visit some fri…

The first time we had a daytrip to Valkenburg was somewhere Nov 2007.That day was a cold rainy day, the whole town looks dead, so quite and don't get to see so many people out in the street.Walking thru the city, I just fell in love with it, was kind of surprised to see the city in summer has such …

After a year's worth of unsuccessful attempts to make it to Valkenburg Castle before it closed for the day, I finally made it.  The ruins are nice, but I can only imagine what this castle must have looked like when it was still standing.  More impressive than the outer castle are the char…

This year I was very busy with all kinds of projects etc. so somethimes you need a quick break, to get some new and positive energy. My sort trip was to Valkenburg in the southen of Limburg in the Netherlands. We had a great and cozy hotel in the city centre of Valkenburg. And there …