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Distance Elapsed Time Moving Time Average Speed Max Speed Elevation Gain Calories Burned
191
km
10:01
hours
07:00
hours
27.25
km/h
46.19
km/h
177
m
3,392
kcal

🕶️🧴Nijmegen – Emmerich – Deventer

17 June 2023

Another perfect day out on the bike! I returned to the lower Rhine near Emmerich and enjoyed the small villages there like Düffelward, Griethausen and Warbeyen. A main road connecting Kleve and Emmerich is currently closed, but I planned around it. So when another cyclist asked me the way I could help him out. I crossed the Rhine and went North through Wehl and Laag-Keppel to Zutphen, where I stopped for lunch with my uncle and his wife. We had a fun gathering and ate bread and strawberries.
The IJssel brought me north to Deventer. Temperatures were high on the way home and I was glad to be in the shade for the most part. 😺

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‘Through traffic’. Looking at one of the bridges across the Waal (≈ the Rhine) in Nijmegen.
A brick factory along the Waal in Erlecom. The old building is being torn down.
A brick factory along the Waal in Erlecom. The old building is being torn down.
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Many small Dutch villages have enormous churches. This is the church of Saint Anthony of Padua in Millingen aan de Rijn.
Horses in Düffelward.
Horses in Düffelward.
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The abandoned railway bridge in Griethausen across the Altrhein (a former Rhine stream).
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A view on Griethausen.
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Looking towards Kleve. Right of the wind mill you can just discern the tower of Schwanenburg Castle.
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The Oraniendeich towards the Emmerich bridge. This road is currently closed in the other direction.
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On the edge of Borghees just across the border.
On the edge of Borghees just across the border.
A view like this makes it immediately clear that we are still in Germany.
A view like this makes it immediately clear that we are still in Germany.
An old mill in Wehl: a ‘steam carpentry factory’.
An old mill in Wehl: a ‘steam carpentry factory’.
Along the road between Baak and Zutphen.
Along the road between Baak and Zutphen.
The IJssel near Zutphen.
The IJssel near Zutphen.
I crossed the Twentekanaal using this bridge.
I crossed the Twentekanaal using this bridge.
Another bridge across the Twentekanaal.
Another bridge across the Twentekanaal.
Kapel op 't Rijsselt: a former chapel that is now a concert venue.
Kapel op 't Rijsselt: a former chapel that is now a concert venue.
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A perfect playing ground for a farmer with OCD.
A perfect playing ground for a farmer with OCD.
Deventer and the IJssel.
Deventer and the IJssel.
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I followed a long stretch of shaded road between Apeldoorn and Voorthuizen. On the way I even made some vertical meters climbing to 110m.
Is it ok to throw your banana peels into the foliage?
Is it ok to throw your banana peels into the foliage?
Oh that sun.
Oh that sun.