Slot Loevenstein aboutcycling

Where Hugo de Groot was imprisoned in 1619 and from which he escaped in a book chest. Hugo de Groot was an important Dutch lawyer and politician who lived around 1600. His books on law are still important today.

We were up before dawn and boarded the train in Schin op Geul just after half past six. In den Bosch we started with a long trip and we cycled a huge detour to just southeast of Utrecht. The weather was beautiful and it was quiet on the sometimes silly winding roads along rivers and ditches. Very nice. In the extra a mill. There will undoubtedly be many more mills to come.

We have the tent on the edge of an orchard with a view of a cornfield and Nieuwegein. I hear a motorway in the distance.