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Exploring the Benelux Countries

Walking and Eating our way through Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

Boots and Bowtie in the Coronavirus Age

After years of neglecting the site due to our busy schedules, we suddenly found ourselves with very little work but with loads of time to walk. Since we were urged not to take public transit, we decided to explore around where we live. We’ve found some lovely spots we had no idea existed. And we’re happy to share them with you – see under “Walks”.

Lyon and the Morvan

June 18, 2025

Mrs Boots took a couple of tumbles last month. Don’t worry – she’s fine. The wagon she fell from was her habitual vegetarianism; the temptation of guinea fowl and France was simply too much for her. To be fair, we were in one of the world’s most tempting culinary regions: Lyon and the Morvan in

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Our ups and downs with South Limburg

October 29, 2024

(not a rant, more a musing) In the largely rural south of the Dutch province of Limburg near Maastricht, centuries-old half-timbered buildings, former watermills, castles, and massive stone farmhouses nestle among the rolling hills. Charming “hollow ways” – roads that began in Roman times as cart tracks and have sunk over time, sometimes by a

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N70, where have you been all my life?

July 9, 2023

The N70: It turns out that they’ve been hiding the hills from us. When the Council of Europe declared the year 1970 as a year for nature conservation, the city of Nijmegen took this idea and ran with it. They devised a walking path that would get people, even people less familiar with nature, to

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B&B Manifesto

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