Video: How we experienced walking the Pieterpad in 29 days.
From April 4 to May 2, 2021 we, Sonja and Gert Jan walk the Pieterpad, traveling for a month without our Milady Landy, she is parked in Breda. The Pieterpad is the longest long-distance path in the Netherlands from the northern Pieterburen in Groningen to the southern Sint-Pietersberg in Maastricht, Limburg, about 500 km long. […]
Pieterpad day 29, ultimate stage 26: Valkenburg-Sint Pietersberg
From Pieterburen to the Sint Pietersberg in Maastricht in 26 stages. Beforehand we should not have thought about walking 500km. But we made it and it feels good!Today is a last day through the hilly landscape of South Limburg, from Valkenburg to Maastricht, a beautiful stage. And what a satisfaction to have climbed the Pietersberg […]
Pieterpad day 28, stage 25: Sittard-Valkenburg
In our penultimate stage we enter the Limburg hilly landscape, steep slopes up and down, which is quite an effort for our tired bodies. Fortunately the weather cooperates again, a strong sun in the morning and some coolness in the afternoon help us through the tough trip. We have pleasant conversations with “great-nephew” Bernard and […]
Pieterpad day 27, stage 24: Montfort-Sittard
We had a cold night in the hiker’s cabin in Montfort and when we leave it is still gray and bleak. Fortunately we walk a beautiful walk through South Limburg and a piece of Germany. At the end of our journey, when we get tired, the sun comes to help us. We even end on […]
Pieterpad day 26, stage 23: Swalmen-Montfort
The day starts in Swalmen with a pleasant sun, despite the weather forecast with rain. Today a bit more hills and small streams in the Meuse valley. Later in the afternoon the wind picks up and the sun disappears behind the clouds and when we arrive tired in Montfort it is downright cold. However, it […]
Pieterpad day 25, stage 22: Venlo-Swalmen
We leave this morning without a coat, at 9 o’clock it is already pleasant to walk. Outside Venlo we walk directly into the forest, along the border with Germany and only at Swalmen we walk out of the forest, 23km later. How good we are! Literally outside Venlo we walk into the forest. Today we […]
Pieterpad day 24, rest day: Venlo
Venlo welcomes us with a radiant sun on this King’s Day. We stay two nights in hotel Wilhelmina, a bit basic, but a good bed and a bathroom with bath. To relax from walking we take a nice izi.travel city walk. Looking for a city walk, we arrive at izi.travel where we find a city […]
Pieterpad day 23, stage 21: Swolgen-Venlo
On this sunny day we walk through beautiful North-Limburg from Swolgen to Venlo. The Schuitwater nature reserve surprises us with its spring colors and water features. Later we cross the Maas again with the ferry at Grubbenvorst and walk across the Maas bank to Venlo. Actually, we barely walk into Swolgen when we left our […]
Pieterpad day 22, stage 20: Groenigen-Swolgen
We walk through the Brabant and Limburg catchment areas and the floodplain of the Maas. The Vierlingsbeek is now called the Afleidingskanaal and further on it is called the Molenbeek. Later we walk along the Oostrumsche Beek, which sometimes flows quite turbulent. It’s great how these streams determine the landscape next to the heather and […]
Pieterpad day 21, stage 19: Gennep-Groenigen
It is now really spring in the Netherlands, we walk from Limburg to Brabant across the Gennepse heide and Maasduinen. Everything is fresh green, the birds sing the highest spring song and butterflies and other insects can already be seen. Like our previous Pieterpad days, the spring sun is doing its best again, wonderful. We […]