{"id":5471,"date":"2025-07-24T06:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=5471"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:11:48","slug":"netherlands-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/the-netherlands\/netherlands-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands – 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hondenstrand Westerschouwend to Domburg – 29th July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bright today with a head wind for most of the trip which is never brilliant. And another long one. I should really accept the need to do less with each day though it will take longer overall.
There was a time from the third to the fouth hour, when I felt that thing that I’ve been missing for a while. The pain fell away and that spiritual-like joy filled me.
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The first miles are on the tarmac of the dam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You can get another little one in. The lock under the dam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The last bit of the OosterSchelde<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The first six miles of today’s beach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking back to the dam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Those bumps on the horizon are people congregating and that means a beach restaurant and a stop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An nour and a half to the next one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Domburg on the horizon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A very handy boardwalk – I was getting well sick of the soft sand.
Some ominous clouds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A sailless windmill and a big one at that.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The final few hundred metres to the car park and pick up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s a bit sad to realise that I need to reduce my walking time to a maximum of five hours a day. Well, I will be doing after I complete this trip, which will require the current seven a day. I’ve already walked one hundred and fifty miles of beach – included in the sections from here and Belgium – with another twenty of sand making up two-thirds of the bits to go.
I think that I’ll be done with beaches for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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