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Night of Gulpen: Anita's first walking tour
June 17 2007: Anita did it. During her first walking tour Night of Gulpen across the Limburgish hills she had to cope with many pains that already showed up during the first 25 km walking through the darkness at night time and solely relying on her willpower she reaches the finish together with Jos, whose eighth edition of the long distance walk Night of Gulpen it was already. Unfortunately at daytime there is not much time and interest for the walkers to enjoy the beautiful environment of the most Southern province of the Netherlands, walking across the hills and through the valleys of Limburg. Click this link for full report including many photos of the most beautiful walking tour of the Netherlands.
Of course the Gulperberg (Gulperberg hill) must be beaten first
The highly deserved walking diploma Night of Gulpen 2007
Impatiently waiting all the time for us to reach the finish the walking tour in Gulpen after 70 kilometres of walking: the webmaster's nieces Amber and Frederique
A highly deserved borreltje (this is a commonly used word in the Netherlands for ordering a Dutch gin in a small long glass) to make the last 2 kilometres a little more bearable and for the real heroes even less painful
Checkpoint where you receive a stamp during walking tour Night of Gulpen in Banholt, another village in the hills of the province of Limburg in Southern Netherlands.
The required state of mind during walking tour Night of Gulpen could not be better described as by the spectators and people of this village Banholt: mind to zero and walk! Just think of the holiday that we were going to have a month later in Turkey
Usually we are sitting on the side walk terrace of the pub down there below under the huge bridge in Moresnet, but now that the training tour of the Night of Gulpen has gotten out of hand we suddenly found ourselves train spotting on top it. Our camping site is only a few kilometres from here, so you can imagine how often we are hiking around here doing train spotting.
This train crossing the railway bridge in Moresnet will soon arrive at the railway station of the village Montzen, the village that this railway track owes its names to: the Montzenroute
It connects the port of Antwerp in Belgium and the Ruhr area in Germany (an area with a lot of steel industry and coal mining (in former days). The book that describes the history of this extraordinary railway track was found by the webmaster under the Christmas tree in 2006 :-)
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