Beautiful weather. After a very pleasant stay at Rilo and Matthieu’s in Haaksbergen I trotted down lanes and paths into the direction of Hengelo, toward Mignon and Serge. About 7 years ago Mignon was an intern for a year in our medical office in Mechelen, during her education for becoming a General Practitionar. Mignons parents-in-law, 

After a good night in a farm guesthouse “de Hofkamer” in Halle during the superfluent (?) breakfast I checked the route on the i-pad. I listed all street and city names on a scrap, payed the landlady, took a picture of the two of us and off we go. With my belly well filled with 

Mother in law in front of her pictures/Also pictures of my own grandchildren, so very nice Tosca has no problem with cold. Always in icy water Grumpy or mysterious weather?Routes and memoy-boards of the 2nd World war, among others at Groesbeek A good decision to leave pony Leon home Tolkamer. Dutch villages are pretty too 

Yesterday an of course pleasant stay at college friend Cees and Leonoor’s in Nijmegen. Excellent lasagna dish of which they allowed me to take extra unabashedly. I do believe 2 or 3 times. Apart from a few regular beers and non-alcoholic drinks I also got a whole bottle of cola and water for the night. 

After a fun evening catching up with sister- and brother-in-law in Weurt I had a good night sleep. This morning I went by train 50 km back to Venray and there began today’s walk. Beautiful weather, 15 gr., not very windy. Then everything is beautiful. Beautiful undulating heathland with little lakes in between. In Geysteren 

An email from Jan from Spain told me that the import rules for dogs recently be eased by the Norwegians. Besides despair that gives hope. I have been wondering how I get Tosca back from the Norwegian border to the Netherlands if Tosca is not allowed to enter Norway? And how can Sonja handle two 

Today it got too late to work on my blog. Just a quick and short note. Yesterday I came to Herten, South of Roermond. From there I went home by train, about 60 km, and today I took the train from home to Roermond, in order to walk from Roermond to the North. I waited 

Las ichas estan un poco infermas. I hope I have not forgotten it yet, Spanish. The (grand) children, 1.5 and 2.5 j., are a little sick. The advantage is that at least they are at home (not in school), when I visit them half a day in Belgian Lanaken. Yesterday filming by the filmmakers, today