CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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410 km from Voorburg to Voorburg, about 6 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout, Woerden-Centrum, Fort Werk IV and Tiel Inundation Canal. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 38 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Under the suburbs between The Hague and Delft lie the remains of Forum Hadriani, the northernmost Roman town on the continent, founded in the early second century AD and named after the emperor Hadrian. At Arentsburg, a country estate in Voorburg, excavations revealed streets, houses, a harbour and a canal, the Fossa Corbulonis, dug by Roman soldiers to link the Rhine and the Meuse. The site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes World Heritage Site, listed in 2021, which follows the Rhine frontier through the Netherlands and Germany.
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Voorburg-Arentsburg is where the day begins. Next is Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout.
Nineteen windmills stand in two rows along the canals at Kinderdijk, their sails turning slowly against the wide Dutch sky, and it is one of the most iconic sights in the Netherlands. They were built in the eighteenth century to pump water out of the Alblasserwaard, a low-lying polder between the rivers Lek and Noord, which would otherwise be flooded. Each mill lifted water from a lower canal to a higher one, and from there it was let out into the river. Over time steam, diesel and electric pumping stations took over the job, and the most recent ones still keep the polder dry today. The mill network was listed by UNESCO in 1997.
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Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout comes up 44 km in. Next is Woerden-Centrum.
Woerden is a small Dutch town on the Oude Rijn, the old Rhine, halfway between Utrecht and Leiden, in the middle of the Green Heart of Holland, a landscape of polders, meadows, ditches and cows. Its centre is a compact old town ringed by canals, with a castle, a big church and a windmill on the old ramparts. The Romans were here too: Woerden lies on the line of the Lower German Limes, and the remains of a Roman fort lie beneath the town centre.
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89 km in you reach Woerden-Centrum. Next is Fort Werk IV.
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, about halfway. 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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Tiel Inundation Canal sits at 178 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort Werk IV.
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back through Fort Werk IV comes up 222 km in. Next is back through Woerden-Centrum.
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266 km in you reach back through Woerden-Centrum. Next is back through Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout.
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back through Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout, late in the day. Next is Voorburg-Arentsburg.
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The route ends here after 410 km.
Voorburg-Arentsburg → Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout → Woerden-Centrum is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Woerden-Centrum → Fort Werk IV is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort Werk IV → Tiel Inundation Canal is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Fort Werk IV is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort Werk IV → back through Woerden-Centrum is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Woerden-Centrum → back through Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout → Voorburg-Arentsburg is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.