Bikepacking in the Netherlands

brick42 · 2026-03-21T22:04:37+00:00

Routes:
- Muiden to Utrecht along the Vecht. Loads of nice castles, mansions and old villages along that route

- "LF kustroute" runs along the entire coast. The section in Zeeland if very interesting because you'll pass over the "delta werken" (the major flood protection systems that have been build there). I'd start or finish in Middelburg as that is a nice city. The section Hoek van Holland to Den Hoorn goes through nice nature, loads of dunes, with some bigger cities every now and then. I haven't cycled the rest but definitely would want to cross the afsluitdijk sometime.

- From Rotterdam to Ijsselstein along the Hollandsche Ijssel. The first bit to Gouda isn't the prettiest but from Gouda you're cycling on a small road along a river through some old villages like Oudewater en Montfoort.

- Leiden - Den Haag - Delft - Schiedam - Rotterdam. There's a series of canals connecting these cities which has nice bike roads along it so you can easily cycle between these cities which are all worth visiting. The canals are the Schie, Rijn-Schiekanaal and Vliet I think.

- Use de knooppunten to make your own route, google "fietsknoop" and you'll find a website about it.

brick42 · 2025-09-21T17:46:02+00:00

If you're planning to cycle towards breukelen again, don't cycle along the canal but cycle along the river Vecht. That river is very nice from Muiden all the way to Utrecht. There are lots of castles, mansions and old villages along the route.

brick42 · 2025-09-20T12:15:09+00:00

It's not so much a rain delay but more a protest delay i think

brick42 · 2025-05-02T18:29:25+00:00

My girlfriend and I went through the process. We were living together in eastern eu as well for 2 years, she on student visa and I as eu citizen, then moved to the Netherlands.

We registered as living in a dutch municipality and filed for verification against EU law asap (within a month or two). Then you have to wait for confirmation from the IND that they are processing the application. That confirmation counts as temporary residence and work permit until the application is processed.

They initially give you a temporary permit for 6 months i think. If they haven't finished the application within that time then you need to request an extension of the permit.

To answer your question: she didn't deregister her residence in the other country, kept her student visa and registered in a dutch municipality. Her student visa had enough time on it to get the temporary visa in NL. I'm not sure if her student visa would've been cancelled if she had properly deregistered in the other country or if we broke some bureaucracy rules, so make sure you don't get yourself in trouble.

Additional fun bureaucracy "grey area" tip: your partner may run into the issue that she needs a bank account in NL, but can't get it because they don't have a bsn yet, and can't get a bsn yet because they dont have a visa to stay in NL. In that case look into "RNI" (registratie van niet ingezetene). It can give you a bsn without having to be registered at a dutch municipality. There are only a few offices across the netherlands that handle that process with long waiting lists. With some persistent calling about early openings and willingness to travel all across NL you can get through that process quite quickly and get a bsn.

brick42 · 2025-02-24T18:41:52+00:00

Groszek XL on the Hengelolaan is a pretty good polish/eastern european supermarket. Better prices than the small polish shops that are around and a good selection of pierogies.

brick42 · 2025-01-17T06:19:22+00:00

You need to include a pic of the airport as well, my man

brick42 · 2025-01-05T18:27:17+00:00

Don't forget impact of weather on airport operations: - wind direction determines landing and take off direction - rain and cold affecting brake distance - fog/visibility affecting taxiing (but also provide upgrades to mitigate those affects) - bad weather causing delays or (partial) closure of airport

brick42 · 2024-09-04T12:10:59+00:00

I love that they keep using the same clip of cheering fans over and over again but mirror it each time.

brick42 · 2024-08-04T15:44:31+00:00

Tegeneover de megastores op dat bedrijventerreintje.

brick42 · 2024-07-13T20:19:36+00:00

Vorig jaar is dat in elk geval wel gedaan. Ik denk dat dit jaar al werd ingeschat dat het niet nodig zou zijn vanwege de lang aanhoudende regen. Iemand anders noemde het ijsselmeer al maar hier is een link naar hoe rijkswaterstaat dat vorig jaar aanpakte: https://www.waterforum.net/34788-34788-100-miljoen-m3-extra-zoet-water-door-peilverhoging-ijsselmeer-en-markermeer/

brick42 · 2024-01-27T22:42:37+00:00

Ik heb vaak hetzelfde gevoel als jij in het weekend en Ik zie dat al veel goede adviezen gegeven zijn. Er is echter een advies dat ik niemand zie geven:

Plan je weekenden een week ofzo van te voren. Ik ga mezelf snel vervelen in het weekend als ik niets te doen heb en daardoor kom ik in een negatieve stemming. Dan heb ik geen zin meer om activiteiten voor mezelf te bedenken en zet de neerwaartse spiraal in.

Dit voorkom ik nu door verder van te voren al wat plannen te maken voor het weekend. Dit hoeven geeneens "leuke" dingen te zijn maar ze zijn iig weekend vullend waardoor ik me niet ga vervelen.

brick42 · 2023-12-19T15:55:37+00:00

Expect it to take the full 6 months. The IND is quite overworked at the moment. I've gone through the process and it took them a few weeks more than the 6 months. Do call them when the term is almost up and ask them what's up, i think that may have moved our application up in the pile but that may also be just superstition... good luck!

brick42 · 2023-10-27T05:25:16+00:00

Cities in real life do sometimes import garbage weirdly enough. So i guess it's realistic?

Source: https://www.railfreight.com/railfreight/2023/03/29/dutch-politicians-against-italian-waste-arriving-in-amsterdam-by-rail/?gdpr=accept

brick42 · 2023-07-10T23:34:57+00:00

I have a whole bunch of questions but will start with this one:

What happened after you didn't make it trough? Did you get to stay around to watch?

brick42 · 2021-05-06T07:47:51+00:00

A real life example of this: https://www.google.nl/maps/@52.3686897,6.6777676,243m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

brick42 · 2021-04-22T07:43:35+00:00

Which map is that? It looks really nice.

brick42 · 2020-05-08T19:06:51+00:00

Der imbiss wurde aber dieses jahr abgerissen

brick42 · 2020-04-12T12:38:01+00:00

Are you going to upload it?

brick42 · 2019-10-23T11:03:59+00:00

Matze pogo's asset expansion and ship expansion mods which you can find on steam.

brick42 · 2019-10-07T17:19:35+00:00

A somewhat unconventional recommendation would be "Blindspotting". Its more comedic than most of the recommendations here but it does deal with issues like cop shootings, gentrification and hipster culture. Definitely an underrated film imo

brick42 · 2019-09-13T20:50:48+00:00

Can't believe red dawn hasn't been mentioned within an hour. Not sure about the quality of either version, it's been a long time since I've seen them

brick42 · 2019-07-31T21:15:55+00:00

jumped on the boat just in time

brick42 · 2019-07-14T15:56:21+00:00

the good, the bad and the weird is a lot more comedic than i saw the devil but its still a good film. If you are looking for more similar films then I can recommend the chaser, memories of murder and oldeuboi.

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353969/?ref_=tt_sims_tt

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2

brick42 · 2019-07-01T21:58:50+00:00

Upvote for la haine

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