CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Hengstdal it runs 72 km to Hengstdal; allow about 1 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Kleve-Keeken, Till and back through Kleve-Keeken. It crosses from Netherlands into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The hills south-east of Nijmegen have a second history that has nothing to do with Rome. On Sunday 17 September 1944, thousands of American paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division landed on the heath and fields around Groesbeek, as part of Operation Market Garden, to seize the high ground and the bridges over the Maas and Waal. They succeeded in many things, but the push to Arnhem failed, and the front line stayed near here through a bitter winter. Nijmegen was liberated only partially, and fighting went on across the Reichswald forest just over the German border until the spring of 1945. The National Liberation Museum in Groesbeek tells the story, and the Canadian War Cemetery, with over two thousand graves, set among beeches, is one of the most moving places in the area.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Mariënboom write-up.
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Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Mariënboom is where the day begins. Next is Kleve-Keeken.
Here the Rhine stops being a German river. Just downstream of the village of Keeken, the great river crosses the border into the Netherlands, and a few kilometres further on it divides, with the Waal carrying most of the water west and the Pannerdens Canal leading to the Nederrijn and the IJssel. In Roman times, this was the northern frontier of the empire, the Lower German Limes, and Keeken is one of the sites listed as part of the UNESCO frontier, with traces of Roman military installations along the old river course.
Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
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Kleve-Keeken comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Till.
The Lower Rhine around Kalkar and Kleve is wide, flat country: green polders, willows along drainage ditches, brick farmhouses and church spires visible for miles. Till is a small village here, part of Bedburg-Hau, just off the Rhine embankments between Kalkar and Kleve, with Emmerich across the river. It lies close to the line of the Roman frontier, the Lower German Limes, which followed the Rhine to the North Sea.
Read the complete Till write-up.
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about 36 km into the recorded legs you reach Till. Next is back through Kleve-Keeken.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
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back through Kleve-Keeken, late in the day. Next is Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Mariënboom.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Mariënboom write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Mariënboom. That is the ride.
Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Mariënboom → Kleve-Keeken is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Keeken → Till is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till → back through Kleve-Keeken is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kleve-Keeken → Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Mariënboom is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.