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Final Post Marney and Bob in Europe, 2022   an Index by phases  I  Utrecht, Netherlands https://marneybob22.blogspot.com/2022/03/utrechtnetherlands-march-18-march-22.html  ..................   II  Into Spain with Kristin and Benny From Anderlecht Belgium through France https://marneybob22.blogspot.com/2022/03/anderlecht-belgium-and-onward-to.html https://marneybob22.blogspot.com/2022/04/cataluna-spain-dali-museum-in-figueres.html https://marneybob22.blogspot.com/2022/04/to-besalu-and-vic-march-30-march-31.html  ..................   III  Aragon and  Catalonia Joined by Sinta and Korcho https://marneybob22.blogspot.com/2022/04/in-ainsa-now-we-are-five-march-31-april.html https://marneybob22.blogspot.com/2022/04/topoblet-visited-monastery-with-lay.html https://marneybob22.blogspot.com/2022/04/to-tarragona-april-2-4-on-mediterranean.html https://marneybob22.blogspot.com/2022/04/in-barcelona-now-we-are-six-april-4-6.html https://mar...
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  Limburg Node-to-Node Day One :: Thursday, May 19 :: Opglabeek to Berg aan de Maas about 39 kilometers ========== ========== We have begun an eight day bicycle tour that will be unlike any we have done before. We will go from place to place most days, but our goal will never be to get there. On Day One, for instance we started from the e-bike2rent bicycle shop in Opglabeek, Belgiums at  about 2:30 in the afternoon and wound up at the Hotel Cafe Knoors-Meeks in Berg aan de Maas in the Netherlands about 6:30. We used the beautifully clear and well-signed node to node system. However, while we cycled 39 kilometers, we could have found our way using the system by cycling only about 20 kilometers. Kristin has planned eight days of rides for us piecing together parts of several published routes. Thus, each day is a tour in the core sense of the word. We are out to tour the country side e and the scattered settlements along the way. 
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  Limburg Node-to-Node Day Two :: Friday, May 20 ::   Berg aan de Maas, Netherlands  to south of Genk, Belgium -- Hotel Zuid about 53 kilometers With heavy rain predicted around noon, we started earlier, biking along the Netherlands side of the Meuse (Maas) River.   We enjoyed villages and one especially nice church in Geulle. We got passed in both directions by groups of fast road cyclists doing morning workouts.  The small bike-pedestrian ferry returned us to the Belgium side of the Maas.  The route led us through the pretty town of Old Rekem  before it headed into into the woods on the meandering paved bike paths of Hoge Kempen National Park. These paths curve and wander; the ride is so quiet, meditative and peaceful. At node 550 we biked over the 234 meter uniquely-designed wooden bridge, completed in 2020, which connects to the heath-covered moors section of the park.  The downpour came just moments after we arrived at a restaurant in ...
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