Mid February 2023 I went on an active group holiday to Tyrol in Austria. Most people joined the trip to do cross-country skiing (langlaufen) but hiking was also an option. We all stayed in the same hotel in Brandenberg (Tyrol) the entire week and the bus driver took us to different snow regions every day: …
15 days in Denmark and a bit of Germany. A nice mix of big cities, tiny villages, cycling and hiking in nature, islands and ferries, and open air museums.
In May / June 2022 I spent a week cycling (on my human-powered bike, not an e-bike ;-)) and seeing surprising sights in the former industrial area Ruhrgebiet in Germany. Most of the city centers are quite ugly but there are cool industrial sites all over the place. Many former mines and factories are now open for visits. The whole region is very green, has picturesque old villages with half-timbered houses and some excellent bike paths.
In September 2021 I finally went outside of the Netherlands for the first time in 18 months because of the pandemic. My own country is beautiful but I had missed real mountains. I was very lucky with dry sunny days for 3 weeks except a few foggy or rainy hours here and there. I hiked …
Monday 20 May - Saturday 25 May 2019 For a number of years now I had been curious about Munich: a big city but also close to the Alps. Various people warned me that it's not as cool and quirky as Berlin, in fact kind of posh and maybe even boring. However, online I found …
Friday 3 May - Tuesday 7 May 2019 Flew from Amsterdam to Split. My friend Mario arrived the next day and we shared pleasant 'apartment Toma'. There was a local festival going on. We explored the historical center which is packed into the old palace walls, and did a walk in Marjan park which is …
Tuesday 23 - Saturday 27 October 2018 A lovely autumn break to the Eifel region in Germany. Only about a 3 to 3.5 hour drive to be 'abroad' in every way. Did a 4.5 hour hike in autumn colors, explored Monschau and Stolberg, and visited a former 'Adolf-Hitler-Schule' school for nazis in the 1930's called …
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