Amsterdam to Zyfflich cycle route

start on the Dam or "Dam Square" (street view).

at the metro entrance (in the Nieuwe Hoogstraat section), turn right along St. Antoniesbree straat. Go on into Jodenbree straat.

after the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (art college), turn left into Uilenburger steeg, then on along Nieuwe Uilenburger straat. This artificial island of Uilenburg was first built for dockyards, and was for a long time a slum.

cross an iron lifting bridge, go on along Peper straat (street view). At the end, turn right along the main road, Prins Hendrik kade.

the road bends right: after the bend, at the traffic lights, turn right. Follow the cycle sign for Almere.

at the end of this road, turn right, and then left (follow cycle signs for Almere), past the windmill De Gooyer.

turn left at the traffic lights, onto Zeeburger dijk, again follow the cycle signs for Almere. Be careful turning left here!

go on along the long straight Zeeburger dijk. At the end, as it curves toward the traffic lights, turn left. Again follow the signs for Almere.

cycle past the wooden-fronted new housing, toward the arched bridge ahead, and turn right along the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal - again follow the sign for Almere.

continue along the cycle path parallel to the rail line, away from the bridge, don't turn back toward the canal.

1 km after the bridge, continue on this side of the rail line, follow the sign for Almere. (Don't turn under the rail line at the first underpass).

After the bend new housing is visible ahead: there are plans to fill this entire polder (Bloemendaler Polder) with housing, joining Weesp to Muiden. This issue is typical of the planning conflicts around all Dutch cities.

pass Weesp station. At the roundabout, turn right, through the underpass under the rail line.

150 m further, turn left along the waterside road, cycle sign for Centrum. This is the river Vecht, which once flowed into the sea at Muiden.

at the next corner, turn left across the lifting bridge, to continue along the river, along Hoog straat.

The riverside road from Weesp station, seen from Hoog straat. CC image by usrbin

turn second right into Slijk straat, at cafe 't Gat van Weesp. Then turn second left into Nieuwstraat. Food: shops.

pass the late-mediaeval church of Weesp, built 1462 (street view). At the old Town Hall (nr. 41, built 1776), turn right.

cross the bridge, and turn left along the canal (Nieuwstad).

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continue along Nieuwstad. After the last house, you can see two windmills on the left. Turn next left into Utrechtse weg, toward the windmills.

The water here, and the grassed mounds, are the moat and bastions of fortified Weesp. The town first belonged to the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht, but was later conquered by the Counts of Holland. They fortified it as a border town, at first a defence against Utrecht, and it retained a defensive function until the Second World War. It formed part of three successive defensive lines, the Holland Water Line in the 17th century, and the New Holland Water Line and the circular Stelling Van Amsterdam in the 19th century. The wooden houses at the beginning of the Utrechtse weg were built inside the military zone, on condition that they could be set on fire in wartime.

cross the lifting bridge over the Vecht, and then turn right, use the cycle path. Follow the sign for Nederhorst den Berg, and the number 40 in a circle.

The numbers in circles, on the low signs, are the nodes of a cycle route network - this one is for the Gooi region. The routes are not signposted by destination, but from node to node. At each node the simple signs indicate neighbouring nodes, and there is usually a map of the network. (In this case, on the corner).

after 1,6 km along the Vecht, turn off left onto Goog pad, follow the cycle sign for Hilversum (and node 39). After about 400 m, the cycle path follows the shore of a lake, Spiegelpolder plas

about 2 km on, the cycle path turns away from this lake, to another lake (Ankeveense plassen). The church spire of Ankeveen is visible ahead, across the other lake.

stop here, at the corner: 20 m to your left is a small wooden footbridge. Cross it, and go to the two benches with a view of the lake. This is a classic lake landscape of the western Netherlands.

The lakes were created by turf cutting from the late Middle Ages onwards. Around 800 AD, the landscape consisted of uninhabited peat bog, from the coastal dunes inland to the Gooi ridge. It was above sea level, with natural drainage. As the bog was reclaimed for farmland, the soil shrunk, making river dikes necessary. Then windmills were needed to drain rainwater into the rivers (which were now higher than the adjoining land). Turf cutting lowered the ground level even more, and the flooded turf cuttings became new lakes. Some were reclaimed again, from the 17th century onwards. Sources for settlement and landscape history of the region include Atlas Amsterdam (1999, C. Dijkstra, M. Reitsma, A Rommerts. Bussum: THOTH), and the provincial survey Monumenten Inventarisatie Project Noord-Holland published by the Provincie Noord-Holland.

go back from the benches, and continue along the cycle path, toward node 39. Pass a small brick building beside a weir: it is a pumping station.

just after the weir, at the signpost, turn left across the narrow footbridge: follow the sign for Hilversum (and node 38). Continue along a narrow footpath (Bergse pad).

at the end of the path you are on the village street of Ankeveen: turn right, toward Hilversum. Ankeveen is a linear settlement typical of the reclaimed peat bogs: the land was reclaimed in regular patterns.

500 m on, at the junction, go on toward toward Hilversum. Cycle on along this road for 2 km, to the village of 's-Graveland.

at the end, cross the bridge, and go straight on into the narrow road Ankeveense Pad, beside nr 40a.

Like Ankeveen, 's-Graveland is also a linear village, built along a canal. It was a favoured place to build country houses for the 17th-century elite of Amsterdam. The name means "the Count's land", the s-apostrophe is a relict genitive case, absent in modern Dutch.

at the end of Ankeveense Pad, turn right, at the sign for Hilversum (sign number 1678).

from Kerkbrink, turn left, between Meddens and De Slegte, into Kerkstraat. Follow the pedestrian sign for Station. Step off your bike in this shopping street. Approaching the C&A store, keep right - again follow the sign for Station.

at the end of Kerkstraat, cross Groest, straight on into Spoor straat, the old railway (spoorlijn) street.

Groest is a tree-lined former village high street. Hilversum was not a historical city, but a simple village, on the heaths of the Gooi ridge. It never received city rights, and for centuries sheep grazing and wool-working were the most important activities. Hilversum began to expand in the late 19th century, when the rail line from Amsterdam attracted wealthy commuters to the area. In the 1920's and 1930's, it became the centre of broadcasting in the Netherlands, and the economy is now dominated by the media and related sectors.

at the end of Spoor straat is the station area, under redevelopment. Turn right along the road here (Schapenkamp, no sign here), at the office building (nr 130).

at the traffic lights, turn left under the rail line, through the underpass (Beatrix tunnel).

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cycle on out of the wood, the return to grassland marks the edge of the forested Gooi ridge.

pass a tree nursery, and then turn right into Wildenburg laan, following the signs for Nieuwe Vuursche cycle route and Node 22.

continue straight on, to the grounds of Groeneveld Castle. Pass the small car park. At the sign 'Welkom in De Vuursche', turn left along the gravel cycle path. Follow the hexagonal sign for cycle route Heel de Heuvelrug Ronde 6.

follow the path on alongside the ornamental lake. At the end, turn right: you are at the front of the 'castle', in fact an 18th-century country house. It is now a national centre for nature and landscape, run by the Agriculture Ministry. (You can rest in the grounds, open to the public).

Kasteel Groeneveld, 1760. CC image by Onno B

cycle away from the front of the castle, along the tree-lined former avenue, past the Moestuin (herb garden). At the end of the castle grounds you can see the first houses of Baarn.

cross the main road, and turn right, the wrong way, along the cycle path. Go toward Restaurant Greenfields and the petrol station.

pass the petrol station forecourt, and immediately go through the gate in the fence, at the faded sign for Van Heemstra laan. The gate has a barrier to deter cyclists.

go straight on along this road through Baarn, along the van Heemstra laan, and then Eemnesser weg.

Baarn is built at the edge of the forested ridge. Since the coming of the railway, it has been an upper-income town, especially because of its association with the royal family. Soestdijk Palace is on the outskirts of Baarn, and Queen Beatrix went to school here.

at the roundabout in front of the police station, turn right, into Nieuw Baarn straat. At the shops, at Café De Karseboom, turn left into Laan straat (no sign here). This is the old village street of Baarn.

continue along the Laan straat, a shopping street: food.

at the end, at the square with the bandstand, go toward the HEMA store. In front of the HEMA, turn right along Brink, past Gall & Gall and Etos.

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from Brink continue along Bos straat. Go straight on, across Java laan, and on along Ooster straat - an old road out of Baarn.

about 1 km on along Ooster straat, the old houses stop. Pass 1960's flats: this is the low-income end of Baarn

after the last block, at the corner of Ooster straat and Dotterbloem laan, turn right onto the cycle path (beside the pond). At the end of the path, go straight on along Zuring laan.

at the end of this street, there is a cycle bridge on your left. Turn left, follow the sign for Amersfoort, across the small bridge, into open countryside.

The land is the flood plain of the Eem, and was regularly flooded in historic times, although the Eem is a short river. Between the high ground of the Gooi/Utrecht ridge, and the high ground of the Veluwe, is a low-lying area, the Gelderse Vallei. A channel of the Rhine once flowed through here, and if the Rhine dike west of Wageningen broke, then the Rhine would again flow into the Eem, causing widespread flooding. Even earlier, before the Saalian glaciation, the river Maas flowed through the valley: the ice sheet deflected its course. (After Amersfoort, this route goes through the Gelderse Vallei, along its main drainage canal).

pass Grote Melm, a cluster of historic farmhouses on the bank of the Eem.

continue along the road parallel to the rail line. To the right is the village of Soest, built on the edge of higher ground. Visible ahead is the spire of the old Amersfoort cathedral, the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Toren.

The apartment tower (on the left) is the northern point of Amersfoort, the city extends north-south, and you are looking at it 'from the side.' Because of its visibility, the Amersfoort spire was used as the centre point of the triangulation of the Netherlands. It is the true origin point of the national grid, located at 52° 09' 22.178 north, and 5° 23' 15.5 east.

further on, the road (now Hilhorst weg) turns away from the rail line, and then goes under a power line. At the end of this road, turn left into Amersfoort, through the industrial zone of Isselt.

go straight on to the traffic lights, and cross the main road (Amsterdamse weg), into the residential area of Soesterkwartier, into Plataan straat.

on Plataan straat, turn third left into Noorderwier weg. Further on, this is the main street through Soesterkwartier, a neighbourhood built on the 'other' side of the railway line.

after the shops, you pass an 11-storey pink/yellow block, Puntenburg. Here, go right, along Puntenburger laan.

continue to a cycle underpass under the rail line. The station/river zone here, a former industrial area, is being redeveloped.

go under the rail line, but don't cycle uphill out of the underpass. Instead, go up the steps on the right, immediately after passing under the rail line. At the top of the steps, facing the rail line, turn right. Use the cycle path, alongside the tracks.

pass the old station of Amersfoort ( Amersfoort NCS, the white building at nr 15). The station was relocated in 1904.

go on past the new office building, to the river. (This is the National Cultural Heritage Service, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, with Art Centre Kade on the ground floor).

cross the cycle bridge over the river Eem - alongside the rail bridge. On the right is the Koppelpoort - a preserved late-mediaeval city gate. Turn right, under the coat of arms, into the historic centre of Amersfoort.

Amersfoort grew up around a ford on the river Eem, formerly called the Amer. The Eem is formed by five streams draining the Gelderse Vallei, which meet here. The ford was just east of the higher ground of the Gooi ridge, on the easiest route across the low ground, to the high ground of the Veluwe. The flow of the Eem was later diverted around the city to avoid flooding, and the water now flows through a modern drainage canal fed by the Vallei kanaal, which this route later follows.

go along the canal, the old course of the Eem. This was the city's harbour.

at the end go left, then right, onto the short Nieuwe weg. At the end of Nieuwe weg, turn left along  Havik. Both sides of this canal are called Havik: you should be on the right bank - i.e. cycling past Havik 17 and 19.

go right from Havik into Lavendel straat. At the end of this street, you are at the main square, Hof.

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turn left, go past the church, into Zevenhuizen.

cross the Lange straat, the main street of Amersfoort, straight on into Nieuw straat.

at the end of Nieuw straat, turn left along Muurhuizen, the street is named for its wall houses built on the remains of a city wall.

The present version of the canal was built in the 1930's, but it was originally cut between 1473 en 1481, under David of Burgundy, son of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. He was Bishop of Utrecht from 1456 to 1496. The canal was earlier known as the Grift or Grebbe, the name 'Vallei Kanaal' is recent. The opposite bank of the canal appears to be higher, but in fact the ground level is the same on both sides. This section of canal was fortified in the 1930's, by building a raised bank with bunkers. That upgraded an older defensive line, the Grebbelinie, first built in the 18th century. It was an inundation defence line on the flank of the Utrecht ridge, flooding the land to the east of the Grift in wartime. (The land on your left, about 3 m above sea level). The Grebbelinie saw heavy fighting in 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands. Parts were briefly refortified by German forces in 1945, as Allied forces advanced from the east. The inundation zone was kept free of buildings, to provide a clear field of fire, and it is still relatively open landscape. The Gelderse Vallei is an area of intensive pig and poultry farming - and a stronghold of orthodox-Calvinist Protestantism.

6 km along the canal, at cycle sign 24229, pass a weir with fish ladder.

A lonely bunker on the defensive line. CC image by Mooste

cross the N224 main road, continue along the canalside path. About 9 km along the canal is cycle route node 81, at the crossing with Nieuw straat. Beside the stone cone is a grassed area with benches, a good place to stop and rest.

after cycle sign nr 24235, the asphalted canalside cycle path ends. Turn right over the bridge, follow node 22.

after 200 m turn left, along De Steeg, again follow node 22. This road runs parallel to the canal.

at the end of this road, you are at the rail line Utrecht - Arnhem, the main line to Germany (opened 1845). Turn left, cycle sign for Veenendaal.

cross the canal again, and go on 500 m to the level crossing at Heuvel steeg. Turn right across the rail line, then left along the parallel road - that is its name, Parallel weg.

Since the 1950's, Dutch schoolchildren have learnt about the dramatic events here on May 5th 1945: Generaloberst Blaskowitz surrenders the German forces in the Netherlands to the Canadian General Foulkes and to  Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Ending five years of German occupation, the surrender at Wageningen is remembered as effecting the liberation of the Netherlands. Every year there is a major commemorative ceremony here. The only problem is, that the surrender never happened - a fact which was known to historians, but only widely reported 50 years later. All German forces in the Netherlands and northwest Germany had already surrendered to Field Marshal Montgomery, on the previous day. Both Foulkes (who later became Chairman of the Canadian Chiefs of Staff ) and Prince Bernhard (who was originally German, and needed a patriotic image) later promoted the myth of the "surrender at Wageningen".

from the small square in front of Hotel de Wereld, turn right into Veer straat. (There is no street name sign, go right of the statue). Veer straat, 'ferry street', is the old road to the ferry over the Lower Rhine.

at nr 19 go left: this is still Veer straat.

at the end of Veer straat, continue along Veer weg, follow the sign (with the ferry icon) for Zetten.

Veer weg is the exact edge of the Veluwe ridge, where it meets the flood plain of the Lower Rhine. The road is about 12 m above sea level: in a major flood, the water will come up to the right-hand side of the road. The Nederrijn or Lower Rhine is one of the the two main channels of the Rhine, which splits as it enters the Netherlands. The other is the Waal - which this route crosses later at Nijmegen. Together with the Maas they form the main river barriers between the north and south of the Netherlands. There was no land route between north and south until 1868 (rail line from Utrecht to 's-Hertogenbosch).

about 200 m after the last houses, turn right along Veer dam to the Rhine ferry, Lexkesveer.

Through the Betuwe

cross the Nederrijn by the ferry: you are now in the Betuwe - the island flood plain between the two main Rhine channels. It takes its name from the tribe of the Batavians - the location and the tribe are mentioned in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico.

go on from the ferry, to the main river dike.

at the main dike, go straight on (road sign for Zetten). Go down from the dike. Turn right after 200 m, into Hemmense straat, follow node 53.

about 2,5 km further, pass a park on the left, with a small lake. There are benches in the park, a good place to stop and rest.

towards the end of the village, the road bends right. Just after the bend, turn next left along Zettense pad, the path to Zetten.

at the end of the path, go straight on past the primary school, and then turn right along the village street of Zetten. Food: baker, cafetaria and supermarket in the centre of the village, about 400 m further.

go straight on, on out of the village, along Stations straat. Continue along the cycle path (or the road) to the rail line, at the small station of Zetten-Andelst.

pass the old station building, and cross the rail line, at the level crossing.

This line, opened 1882, once carried international trains, but got left behind when traffic was concentrated on main lines between cities. It is  now known as the 'old Betuwe line', to distinguish it from the new one. It is not electrified, and has an hourly passenger service from Tiel to Arnhem.

cycle uphill to cross the new rail line, the Betuweroute

The new Betuwe line is a purpose-built rail freight line, starting in the Rotterdam port zone. It connects near Zevenaar to the main line to the Ruhr, but improvement of the connecting line in Germany itself has not yet started. The line massively overran its budget, leading to a parliamentary inquiry.

cross the A15 motorway: it runs (parallel to the Betuwe line) from Rotterdam to Germany. Go straight on, toward Andelst.

stay on this road, which by-passes Andelst, don't turn off into the village itself. About 1 km after the motorway, pass the town hall of Andelst, an ugly two-story office building with a spire.

300 m after the town hall (at nr. 178), turn right onto Waal straat, cycle sign for Nijmegen (don't turn into Rozen straat here). Cycle on out of the village, and on towards the motorway embankment, planted with trees.

at the end of Waal straat, 2 km on, you are on the dike of the river Waal, beside the motorway bridge (north-south A50 motorway).

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The dike was reconstructed after the 1995 flood, when it almost broke at Ochten (15 km downstream). The entire Betuwe population, about 250 000 people, was evacuated for a week.

2 km further on, pass a tree-lined lake in the floodplain (this is all under water during flood). Ahead, you can now see the Nijmegen power station.

4 km along the dike, pass the small white church of Slijk-Ewijk, with a bench (just below the dike) where you can stop to rest.

pass the suburbanised village of Oosterhout, on the opposite bank are the power station, a container dock, and the locks of the Maas-Waal canal.

9 km along the dike, after the power lines, pass a war memorial

The monument commemorates the United States 82nd Airborne Division, and other Allied forces, who crossed the Waal here during the Battle of Arnhem on 20 September 1944. It lists the US soldiers who died during the operation: remember it when you get to Zyfflich.

continue and go under the rail bridge: a new cycle bridge has been built alongside it, on the eastern side. On the opposite bank is the old waterfront of Nijmegen (map).

Nijmegen waterfront from the cycle bridge, CC image by Max o

Through Nijmegen

go down the escalator, go on 20 m, and then turn right toward the city centre. Go straight on into the Lange Hezel straat, passing the Kronenburger Park (once part of the city defences).

go uphill along the Lange Hezel straat and the Stikke Hezel straat, into the centre. Food: some restaurants here, and at the corner of Hessenberg traditional patat in paper. Opposite it is a small supermarket, and the HEMA store at Grote Markt has a food section. (After Nijmegen you pass no more shops).

pass through the Grote Markt, the historic central square of Nijmegen. Behind it is the 13th-century St Steven's Church.

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go on along the Burcht straat, now the main shopping street, passing at nr. 20 the restored Stadhuis (city hall, 1555).

go straight on, past the open space at Kelfkensbos, past the blue facade of the city's Valkhof Museum.

100 m after the museum building, turn left into the park behind it, at the snackbar/kiosk Hunnerpark (follow a pedestrian sign for Hunnerpark/Belvedere).

go on along the footpath with the four statues, in front of the city wall - this is the only intact section. Nijmegen was heavily fortified for most of its history, and the city walls were maintained until the late 19th century. In this small park, Hunnerpark, you can stop to rest.

after the statues, go left through the gap in the city wall, under the small arched bridge. Then turn right along the footpath, to the Belvedere tower - now a restaurant. From the platform, there is an excellent view of the Rhine flood plain.

This was once a defensive tower, at the point where the plateau slopes down to the river. Across the flood plain you can see Arnhem - the two green buildings are at Arnhem station. Arnhem is built, like Nijmegen, at the edge of the glacial ridge. It was all formed as one ridge, and the Rhine originally ran north from the Rhine Gorge, and did not even flow here. Diverted by the ice in the last Ice Age, the river flew east, and it cut through the older glacial ridge. Until the Middle Ages, the Rhine flood plain was occupied by meandering channels over its entire width, here about 15 km. When the rivers were enclosed by dikes, the present double channel was fixed. Below the tower is the 1936 Waal road bridge.

to leave Nijmegen, you first go under the Waal bridge. From the Belvedere go along the footpath, follow the sign for Centrum, and go past the Museum entrance. Go along the right-hand edge of the square (with the wooden benches), to the blue sculpture.

at the sculpture, make a U-turn right, downhill, follow the sign for Waal kade. Go on under the Waal bridge viaduct: the road then turns to the right.

300 m after the bridge, turn left onto the Ooyse dijk, follow the cycle sign for the LF3b Maas route, and node 48. Pass the 1933 German-Dutch pumping station. You are now back on the river dike, which re-starts at the edge of the Nijmegen plateau.

cycle on through the Ooij polder, the name for the Netherlands section of the flood plain.

The Persingense straat is being resurfaced (late summer 2009). Almost certainly, you can simply walk past the roadworks.

The river dikes never protected the area entirely, and it was often flooded when dikes broke. In the 1990's, plans were made to use the entire area as a flood retention basin, sacrificing it to save more populated areas downstream. See the map at hoogwaterplatform.nl, the website of the plan's opponents. Since the Netherlands can only use its own territory in this way, a large new dike would be built along the border. Earlier, in the 1950's, the Ooij polder was planned for defensive inundation, in case of a Soviet invasion (see De Ooijpolder: een tragisch paradijs).

3 km on along the road, pass through Persingen, the 'smallest village in the Netherlands'. It is built on higher ground, a donk - former river dunes formed during the last ice age, the Weichsel glaciation. On the right at the church, there is a picnic bench where you can stop to rest.

700 m after Persingen, at the St. Hubertus weg, turn right, sign for Beek.

after 600 m turn left, into the Alde Wetering weg, follow the sign for 'Wylerbergmeer'.

at the corner of the sports fields, at node 64, turn left. The sports fields should be on your right as you pass them!

at the end of the sports fields pass the main entrance to the recreational park Wylerbergmeer: go straight on along the cycle path, follow node 66.

look out for the turnstile gate - the rear entrance to the recreational park.

immediate after this turnstile gate, cross two short bridges - one wooden, the second concrete. Just after the concrete bridge, turn right, along an unsurfaced track, between the small canal and the field. There are no signs here.

after 500 m, you reach a grassed dike, about 2 m high, at right angles to the track. The dike segments the flood plain, but it is evidently no longer in use, since there is a gap in the dike. It is called the Querdamm, transverse dike. The name is in German because this is the border with Germany. There is a border marker: 641A.

The border with Germany is open, under the Schengen Agreement, and permanent border controls have disappeared, except for freight traffic. There are random checks by police near border crossings, and occasionally at the border itself.

go through the gap in the dike, and straight on: the road is called Zum Querdamm. The houses along this road form the village of Zyfflich. Like Persingen, it is built on an east-west ridge in the flood plain, about 5 m higher than the land on either side.

at the fork with the cross, keep left, along Zum Querdamm.

after 2 km, you enter the 'centre' of Zyfflich, at the bar (Gaststätte Polm), the church, the village hall, and some benches with a map of cycle routes, on the grassed space in front of it.

All shops and services are in Kranenburg, a small historic town on the Nijmegen-Kleve road (about 7 km from Zyfflich), or in Kleve itself. Zyfflich may have been settled in Roman times. The village is part of the Gemeinde Kranenburg. It is known locally for the storks, which have nested here for most of the last 15 years. The stork was once common along this part of the Rhine, but disappeared during the first half of the 20th century. (To see the storks, go into the Leuther strasse, from the corner with the benches. The nest is 100 m further, on the right. They lost all their chicks in 2008, but returned with three chicks in 2009).

go to the church to see the war memorial with the names of the local dead.

You are in another country, with a different history: these are the people killed by the 82nd Airborne, and other allied troops. They were 'the enemy' for the Dutch and their American allies, but many have Dutch names, and would have had relatives across the border. Like so many borders in Europe, it divided an older regional cultural unity.

you are 129 km from the Dam in Amsterdam - from here you turn back to Nijmegen.

Back to Nijmegen

to return, go back back along Zum Querdamm, starting beside the benches.

go back through the gap in the dike, onto the unsurfaced road. Turn left when you reach the asphalted cycle path. Go over the bridge, and on along the cycle path.

go on past the sport fields, and then turn right, follow cycle route LF3a.

at the end of Alde Wetering weg, turn left toward the traffic lights.

cross at the traffic lights, and then turn right, on the cycle path alongside the main road to Nijmegen.

continue along the cycle path, and then the parallel roads, beside the main road. Even when you are almost in central Nijmegen, there are few buildings. The road is at the foot of the ridge, with the flood plain on the right-hand side.

at the end of the parallel road, follow the cycle path. Cross the main road, then continue uphill, along the main road, using a cycle lane.

at the top of the hill, you are back at the city centre, opposite Hunnerpark. Follow the cycle signs for Venlo, onto the inner ring road, the St. Canisius singel / Oranje singel.

go straight on along this road, to a very large roundabout (Keizer Karel plein). Go straight on here, past the corner with the VVV tourist office, onto the Van Schaek Mathon singel. (No name sign at the corner, follow node 18).

at the end of this street, 10 km from Zyfflich, is Nijmegen station, the end point of this route.