De Slufter: a weird name, for a unique place
The only place in the Netherlands where the sea is allowed to win.
Netherlands
Coastwork
An unplanned trip to Texel turned into a small field study of a coastline unlike any other. Being there, in the wind and water, brought back my fascination with the ocean and its edges.
Walking the Grebbeliniepad
The Grebbe Line (Dutch: Grebbelinie) was part of the Dutch Waterline—a defensive system that used intentional flooding to hold back invaders. It stretched from the Grebbeberg near Rhenen all the way north to the IJsselmeer. It's a 91KM walk that took me two years to complete.
252 | Walking the Grebbeliniepad (part 2)
The trail called me again. So I returned to it. Furthering the walked kilometers of the official paths. I took
251 | Walking the Grebbeliniepad
I should’ve done this way earlier. This afternoon, after a couple of hours of online research and general uncertainty