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 Bussum it runs 222 km to Bussum; allow about 3 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Culvert near Offerhausweg, Tiel Inundation Canal, Elst-Grote Kerk and back through Tiel Inundation Canal. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Gooi, the area east of Amsterdam around Bussum, Naarden and Hilversum, is one of the few places in the western Netherlands with hills, if you can call low sandy ridges hills. It is a region of heathland, woods and wealthy villages. On the edge of Bussum, close to the fortified town of Naarden, stands Fort Werk IV, a small fortification that was part of the New Dutch Waterline and the Defence Line of Amsterdam, and is now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
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Fort Werk IV is where the day begins. Next is Culvert near Offerhausweg.
The name tells you what is here, a culvert, a small tunnel for water under a path or a bank, and the humble nature of the place is its charm. The Netherlands is a country made of managed water, and this part of Utrecht, on the eastern edge of the city near the university campus of De Uithof, is cut by streams, ditches and old defensive works that were all designed to move water about, or to hold it back. A culvert is the kind of detail that engineers make a country work with, and that most travellers never see.
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Culvert near Offerhausweg comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tiel Inundation Canal.
Tiel is a river town on the Waal, the main branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands, in the middle of the Betuwe, a region of orchards, dykes and meadows between the Waal and the Lower Rhine. Just outside the town, a wide, straight channel runs through the fields, crossed by bridges and lined by dykes. This is the Tiel inundation canal, built in the late nineteenth century as part of the New Dutch Waterline, the defensive system of controlled flooding that protected the heart of Holland, and it is now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Tiel Inundation Canal. Next is Elst-Grote Kerk.
Elst is a commuter town in the Betuwe, the flat river island between the Rhine and the Waal, halfway between Arnhem and Nijmegen. At first glance there is nothing remarkable about its big brick church on the market square. The surprise lies underneath it. Excavations in the twentieth century found the remains of two Roman temples beneath the floor, built one after another on the same spot, dedicated to a local god adopted into the Roman world. The site belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021, and the foundations can be seen in the church cellar when it is open.
Read the complete Elst-Grote Kerk write-up.
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Elst-Grote Kerk, about halfway. Next is back through Tiel Inundation Canal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tiel Inundation Canal write-up.
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back through Tiel Inundation Canal sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Culvert near Offerhausweg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Culvert near Offerhausweg write-up.
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back through Culvert near Offerhausweg comes up about 196 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort Werk IV.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort Werk IV write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort Werk IV closes the day.
Fort Werk IV → Culvert near Offerhausweg is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Culvert near Offerhausweg → Tiel Inundation Canal is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tiel Inundation Canal → Elst-Grote Kerk is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Elst-Grote Kerk → back through Tiel Inundation Canal is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Culvert near Offerhausweg is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Culvert near Offerhausweg → Fort Werk IV is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.