Pieterpad

A long north-south route in the east of the Netherlands, through a wide variety of landscapes from the flat and low and to gently rolling wood and pasture. One of the first long-distane walking routes in the Netherlands.

Walkopedia  friend Muntjewerf says:

"A 492 kilometers long route along the borders of the Netherlands and Germany. You see all kinds of landscapes pass, as you walk from Maastricht (Saint Pieter "mountain") to Pieterburen (at the Waddensea)or the other way around.

Information about this path is mainly available in the Dutch language (www.pieterpad.nl). But the path is very well marked with red-white markers. In Holland it's not allowed to stay camping freestyle in the woods. But we walked the whole route (and some parts twice)without problem. We camped out all the time (in the wintertime) and never ever anybody send us away or fined us. On the contrary,several times people offered us a free stay on their premises.

It's a different way of walking, as you walk true inhabited areas on a daily basis. Really in the middle of nowhere you'll only be on certain stretches of the route. But it's a fine way of getting to know the Dutch (and some German) countryside and the people that live there!"

Walkopedia says THANK YOU! Thanks you also to Marjin Bosma for the maps.

Any more thoughts, or pictures, out there, community?