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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70 km from Hengstdal to Hengstdal, about 1 h 36 of riding. It goes by way of 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 Swartendijk stretch lies on the quiet side of the hills, away from the villas and museums of Berg en Dal. This is where the Heilig Land Stichting, the Holy Land Foundation, was set up in the nineteenth century by Dutch Catholics, who built an enormous religious theme park with replicas of biblical sites, a Golgotha, a Jordan river and a Holy Sepulchre, in the woods and hills near the German border. It still exists, though it now has the air of a very large and slightly surreal garden, and it stands as a reminder that these slopes have been a place of pilgrimage as well as war.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk 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 19 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 35 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kleve-Keeken, late in the day. Next is Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk. That is the ride.
Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk → Kleve-Keeken is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Keeken → Till is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till → back through Kleve-Keeken is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kleve-Keeken → Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.