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 Zevenaar it runs 162 km to Zevenaar; allow about 3 h 27 of riding. The stops in between: Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North, Kleve-Reichswald | East, Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South and Elst-Grote Kerk. It crosses from Netherlands into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules.
At Lobith, a few kilometres east of here, the Rhine enters the Netherlands from Germany, and you can feel the river changing its mind about what it is. Within a short distance it splits into branches, the Waal, the Nederrijn and the IJssel, and spreads across a wide floodplain, the Bijland, of meadows, willow thickets and old river arms. In Roman times this was the frontier, and a fort at Herwen, called Carvium, guarded the river crossing with a garrison and a small settlement. The Roman road ran along the dike, and ships tied up at its harbour.
Read the complete Herwen-De Bijland write-up.
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Herwen-De Bijland is where the day begins. Next is Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North.
Just east of Nijmegen, where the Netherlands suddenly remembers how to make hills, a wooded slope near the village of Berg en Dal hides the remains of a Roman industrial site. De Holdeurn was where the Tenth Legion, Legio X Gemina, stationed at Nijmegen in the late first and early second centuries, made roof tiles, bricks and pottery, stamped with the legion's name and shipped all over the region. The kilns and workshops have been excavated, and the site is one of the many places that make up the Frontiers of the Roman Empire – the Lower German Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North write-up.
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Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kleve-Reichswald | East.
South of Kleve, near the Dutch border, the Reichswald is one of the largest forests in the Lower Rhine region, a mix of oak, beech and pine on a low ridge of sand and gravel left behind by the glaciers of the Ice Age. On its edge, the Romans built military installations as part of the Lower German Limes, the frontier along the Rhine, and the remains in the Reichswald, including traces of camps, are part of the World Heritage site listed by UNESCO in 2021. There is little to see above ground, but the forest itself is a quiet, beautiful place to walk.
Read the complete Kleve-Reichswald | East write-up.
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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Kleve-Reichswald | East. Next is Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South.
The Netherlands is famous for having no hills, which makes the ridge at Berg en Dal a small, comic exception. East of Nijmegen, the land rises in a line of wooded heights, shaped by the Ice Age, when a great glacier pushed up a mound of sand and gravel, and the highest point barely reaches a hundred metres. It looks modest on paper, but after the flat polders it feels like an alpine foothill, with beech and pine woods, steep little lanes, villas among the trees and views across the Waal valley into Germany. The name Berg en Dal means hill and valley, and the Dutch mean it.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South write-up.
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Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South, about halfway. 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 sits at 69 km, about halfway. Next is back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South.
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Read the complete Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South write-up.
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back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Kleve-Reichswald | East.
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Read the complete Kleve-Reichswald | East write-up.
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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Kleve-Reichswald | East. Next is back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North.
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back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North, late in the day. Next is Herwen-De Bijland.
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Read the complete Herwen-De Bijland write-up.
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The route ends here after 162 km.
Herwen-De Bijland → Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North → Kleve-Reichswald | East is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Reichswald | East → Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South → Elst-Grote Kerk is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Elst-Grote Kerk → back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South → back through Kleve-Reichswald | East is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kleve-Reichswald | East → back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North → Herwen-De Bijland is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.