Dutch Mountain Trail
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Exploring the Dutch Mountain Trail: Bocholtz to Vaals
On our third and last day we decided to opt for a shorter section of 15k, starting in Bocholtz where we stopped the day before and walk to the drielandenpunt at Vaals, where The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany meet. After checking out of the hotel we drove to the drielandenpunt and parked our car. We…
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Exploring the Dutch Mountain Trail: Eygelshoven to Bocholtz
On our second on the Dutch Mountain Trail we decided to tackle the first section from Eygelshoven to Bocholtz. The end point was based on a convenient public transport connection back to Heerlen. We took the car from our hotel TerWorm at the outskirts of Heerlen to the station where we took a bus to…
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Exploring the Dutch Mountain Trail: Eijsden to Maastricht
Because we didn’t have enough to walk the whole Dutch Mountain Trail during our vacation, we decided to simply pick 3 sections that fitted our available time. On the first day, because we had to first travel from home by car to The Netherlands we picked the last 17,5k of the trail from Eijsden to…
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Dutch Mountain Trail Hike Preparations
As mentioned in another post we are planning to walk part of the Dutch Mountain Trail this year. So; not the complete 100km but a little over half of it during 3 days. And we will walk sections, returning to our hotel every day. Some of the preparation started with a hotel found in Heerlen…