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5 days ago
Today we're walking back to the historic center of Hoorn. I'm not one for city breaks, but I can highly recommend Hoorn. It's a truly beautiful city!
And we're also lucky with the weather. It stayed dry all day, and we even enjoyed coffee in the sunshine 🌞.
Tired but happy after this beautiful day, we're now putting our feet up.
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6 days ago
From Volendam, we drive on to Hoorn, where our B&B is for the next two nights.
We take a short walk there.
Hoorn has a beautiful historic center with many lovely facades.
The wind is making it quite cold, so we stop for a hot chocolate in the Grote Kerk (Great Church), which has been converted into a hotel
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6 days ago
We're spending the weekend in North Holland and are going to Volendam today. On the way there, we had constant rain, and when we arrived in Volendam, it was still drizzling. It was quite chilly, so we had a hot chocolate first. Meanwhile, it had dried up, and we stayed dry.
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January 31, 2026
Today I had another lovely walk with Corrie and Leo.
There's a lot of maintenance going on, so in some places it's muddy because of the tire tracks.
We even came across a hunting club. It was great to see those enthusiastic dogs.
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January 2, 2026
We seem like a bunch of amateurs. Apparently, if you haven't hiked for a while, you can't read routes anymore. Not us, anyway 🤦😂. The geocaching was a complete failure, so we kept going back and forth. Because of that, the build-up went a bit too fast for me, with almost double the distance compared
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December 28, 2025
Slowly building things up again 🙄.
Hopefully, 2026 will be a year without physical limitations and we can go on long weekly walks again.
Happy New Year to everyone, and all the best for 2026!
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October 19, 2025
We'll also briefly visit the Hermann's Monument.
The Hermann's Monument is a monument near Detmold, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was built between 1838 and 1875 based on a design by Ernst von Bandel and dedicated on August 16, 1875. This colossal statue (26.57 meters tall and 53.46
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October 18, 2025
What wonderful weather it is today! We're going to the Teutenburg Forest and visiting the Externsteine. Jeroen and Corrie climb the steps, and Leo and I admire the whole thing from below.
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4 days ago
Months ago, when I booked this weekend, I already had a foresight: that it would stay dry around Volendam, Hoorn, and Edam 😂.
On the way home, we took a walk through Edam. Also beautiful, but not particularly special after Hoorn. A better order would have been: Volendam, Edam, and then Hoorn. But we
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