{"id":5473,"date":"2025-07-24T06:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=5473"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:22:32","slug":"netherlands-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/the-netherlands\/netherlands-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands – 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Domburg to Vlissingen Ferry – 30th July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I completely messed up my distances on this trip. However I was measuring things, I’ve managed to underestimate the distance every day. Today was no exception. If I hadn’t have added an extra two miles on to the end of yesterday I’d have been in real trouble to finish.
Anyway it was a fine day, twenty two degress and mostly sunny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starting along the top of the dam into the brisk north-westerly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The lighthouse marks the most northerly point. Now turning west then south-west with the wind moving behind me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A kite show?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The first of many miles of beach. These beaches seem to have groynes every few hundred metres.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Which you can see a bit better here. Hundreds of trees per and dozens per beach segment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A shipway just off the beach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vlissingen should be around that point.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The tiny beach sheds have given way to much more elaborate beach huts. I wonder if these get handed down in wills etc.?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vlissingen in view but miles to go yet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back on some firm surfaces, but now have to circumnavigate the town around to the ferry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The old harbour master’s house. I’ve noticed that even the defensive structures are made of those thin bricks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ships flying about, hither and yon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The ferry port in view – at last.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next to last day, and I was doing very well until I discovered that I’d extra miles to go. Still, it is done and only one more day in Zeeland\/South Holland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Domburg to Vlissingen Ferry – 30th July 2025 I completely messed up my distances on this trip. However I was measuring things, I’ve managed to underestimate the distance every day. Today was no exception. If I hadn’t have added an extra two miles on to the end of yesterday I’d have been in real trouble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5459,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5473","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5473\/revisions\/5613"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}