Pieterpad

 

we started our day driving to Valkenburg 

where we had coffee outside in the sun

walking towards our starting point

Mistletoe growing in trees, 

apparently normal for Limburg

we set a nice pace

Marl rocks are typical for this part of Limburg

healthy sheep, currently there's a disease going around

called bluetongue, it kills sheep (and cows)

it's spread by little mosquitoes

we met these friendly people 79 and 80 years old

they walk 8 km every other day

they took a nice picture from us, but I can't find it

almost at the end of this hike

close to the railway station

we wanted to hike to the Vrijthof, but it was 

quite a ways yet so we decided on ending our hike 

at the bridge "Servaas brug" with a drink

walking back we saw a "stumbling block" or

"stolpersteine" they are placed in front of houses

where Jewish people lived who were killed in the 

concentration camps, we saw several of these stones

we went back to Valkenburg on the train

first the wrong way, but it stopped at the next station 

to go back in the direction we wanted to go