I once posted about our world tour with a site called Wandelaars. It's the Dutch word for "hikers" or more roughly ... wanderers. We lived in Europe at the time, but have come home now so that site doesn't exist any more.
Here are some of those posts, slightly rewritten ... the photo shows the fog in Leiden, as we cross the old Rijn.
A thin smudge of trees along a flat horizon frames bright green polders, beneath grey tumbling clouds in a misty sky. Welcome to Alphen aan den Rijn, a nondescript village turned provincial town in the Heart of Holland.
From the deck of our rented farmstead we look across the little fields, the ve...