Track 4: Zuidlaren to Rolde - 17.4 km / 24 Photos

20 June 2024
From the bus stop Brink in Zuidlaren I picked up track 4 of the trail.
At the end of today's track I found my way to bus stop Kerkbrink in Rolde from where I took a bus and a train back to my hotel in Groningen.
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This statue in Zuidlare remembers the 800th yearly Horse market in October 2000.
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Part of the Brink (village green) where the horse market takes place
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Old watering hole for cattle in the village green
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The river Aa near Schipborg
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The landscape around the river with swamps, farmland and bushes
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Another view of the river Aa and the landscape
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The spring this year brought lots of rain so the water level in the river is high and the banks are swampy
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After crossing the river a boardwalk allows to continue the track and protects the nature
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The varied landscape I am walking through
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Approching the heathland of Gasteren
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The hiking track through the dunes of Gasteren
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The remains of a 'Hunebed', a prehistorical burial monument
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Colorful flowers in the fields
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Enjoying a lunch with a glass of wine for my 70th birthday in Gasteren
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The village green of Gasteren
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Old country road with trees on the side and the swampy river bed on the left
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There are many Scottish highlanders grazing on the banks of the river
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To allow hiking away from a busy country road boardwals were build in the swampy area
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To allow hiking away from a busy country road boardwals were build in the swampy area
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.The track on the Balloër field, an nature area with heathland and grass fields
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One of the fens that can be found on the Balloër field
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The 'Galgenberg' is a burial mound along the Groningen - Coevorden trade route where a gallows pole has also been erected
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Pieterpad artwork of 50 stones in a circle about a central stone that indicates the distance from here to the start and the end of the trail.
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The bus stop Kerkbrink in Rolde where I took the bus to Assen and from there a train to Groningen.
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The route I followed today
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