{"id":5475,"date":"2025-07-24T06:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=5475"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:28:31","slug":"netherlands-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/the-netherlands\/netherlands-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands – 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Breskens to Belgium Border – 31st July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well the last day for this trip has rolled around, a grey wet day. Rain in my face with a strong wind didn’t make it very pleasant and I think that I’m done with beaches for the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ferry that brought me to Breskens from Vlissingen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Turning into the teeth of the wind at this point. The rain is coming horizontally into my eyes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not many beach goers today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Somewhere open for a bit of a dry out, I hope.
Turns out not to be.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jesus, these beach huts are something above the usual sheds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The last mole approaches and the rain is really stinging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Off the beach for a minute. A real Dutch canal for you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Transcends any language barrier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Belgium just across that stretch of water. Zwin, where I started Belgium some weeks ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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South Holland and Zeeland conquered face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not sure I like six hours walking in the rain anymore. Bloody expensive raincoat leaks under my arms, which runs down my sides. Still, back to the hotel for a hot shower and I’ll feel better.
Some long treks on this one and some better planning re the hotel location needed – but we’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breskens to Belgium Border – 31st July 2025 Well the last day for this trip has rolled around, a grey wet day. Rain in my face with a strong wind didn’t make it very pleasant and I think that I’m done with beaches for the moment. Not sure I like six hours walking in the […]<\/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-5475","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5475","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=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5475\/revisions\/5636"}],"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=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}