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🎒 Walking the Dutch East Where My Grandfather's World Is Still Visible
🎒 Walking the Hanseatic IJssel: a childhood tree, a historian grandfather, and a garden of lost butterflies
Jun 7
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Alexander Verbeek
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🎒 My Grandfather Watched the First Bicycle Arrive. I Walked the City Where They Sold Them.
🎒 A Hanseatic city portrait: Doesburg, the IJssel River, and the Canadian army that passed through
May 31
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Alexander Verbeek
70
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Walking Where Rome Ended and the Middle Ages Began: The Dutch IJssel Trail
Walking the Hanseatic IJssel — the eastern Netherlands that Holland forgot to advertise
May 23
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Alexander Verbeek
77
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The Island After the Trail: Home, History, a Dutch Pope, and a Cat Who Found the Best Sunlounger
After the Atlantic cliffs, the flat land and big sky of Zeeland — and why I find the light here nowhere else on earth
May 16
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Alexander Verbeek
74
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The Fisherman's Trail: A Practical Guide for Anyone Over Fifty Who Is Basically Fit
The complete practical guide: season, gear, accommodation, luggage transfer, navigation, and what to do about blisters
May 9
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Alexander Verbeek
81
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Trail of Tides, Part 7: Walking to the Lighthouse at the End of the World
Rain on the Fishermen's Trail, Californians, a fortress that was closed, a bratwurst stand that was open, and the lighthouse that was always there
May 2
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Alexander Verbeek
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Trail of Tides, Part 6: A Frenchman's Iran, Trump's Iran, and a Bridge That Didn't Exist
Wind that turned walking poles into booby traps, a Frenchman who taught in Iran before the revolution, and three Californians who arrived just in time
Apr 25
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Alexander Verbeek
71
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Trail of Tides, Part 5: Squeezing Ten Days Into Nine on Portugal's Fisherman's Trail
The day I left the clifftops behind, followed irrigation channels through rural Portugal, and visited a ruined Moorish castle with a view worth staying…
Apr 18
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Alexander Verbeek
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Trail of Tides, Part 4: The Fisherman's Trail at Its Most Beautiful — Porto Covo to Odeceixe
A sprained ankle, cliff-nesting storks, three springs in one year, and a pizza evening that felt like the Camino
Apr 12
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Alexander Verbeek
80
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Trail of Tides, Part 3: How I Ended Up Alone at a Beach Bar When Everyone Else Stayed on the Bus
Walking into Portuguese history before walking the Fisherman's Trail
Apr 4
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Alexander Verbeek
83
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Trail of Tides, Part 2: Ian Fleming, Exiled Kings, and the Road That Became a Bond Film
The coast west of Lisbon: Cabo da Roca in the wind, meeting friends, and a waiter named Pedro
Mar 28
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Alexander Verbeek
79
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Trail of Tides: Walking Portugal's Fisherman's Trail
A new series begins — walking Portugal's southwest coast from Sines to the edge of the continent
Mar 24
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Alexander Verbeek
95
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