What do you do when you live in Limburg and have a friend visiting from the UK? Primarily drink lots of beer, but after that you take them to the Drielandenpunt (three lands point), the point where the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany all converge. Who wouldn't want to be able to say they've been in 3 countries in one day?!
So that's exactly what we did the with the lovely Sam today.
At the Drielandedpunt there are several restaurants and food vendors, two viewing towers, a maze and, coincidentally, the highest point in the Netherlands.
First up we did the maze, which was supposed to take us around 30 - 45 minutes to solve. We decided to make a race of it, Sam went one way, Alex (Arjan's dad) went another and Arjan and I went together down the third route.
We walked that maze to and fro for a good long while, it was very tricky! There were a lot of twists and turns, evil water traps and three bridges that rose up above the maze just to tantalize you with how close you were to the centre.
Arjan and I made it to the middle first after nearly giving up from hunger and bladder fullness, then came Sam, and after no sign of Alex for a while we made our way out to the exit and gave him a call.
We then stopped for a quick refreshing beer before walking the 100m to the actual crossing point.
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| These passages had little fountains that were triggered by motion sensors, you had to run through before they went off again! |
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| The pavilion in the centre |
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| Silly mirrors |
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| Congratulations! You found the middle... |
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| Sam was a little jealous that we got there first |
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| "I've got one foot in Germany, one foot in Belgium and my balls in Holland!" |
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| The little green lines in the ground show the borders, left is Germany, Netherlands in the middle, then Belgium on the right |
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| A quick stroll into Germany |
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| The highest point in the Netherlands.... |
It was a really fun day out and we got a lot of exercise! If you're ever in the area I would recommend a visit, we never made it up a viewing tower, but the view from the road was beautiful as well.
What a great day out. I had never thought that three countries merge and where does this happen. I know now, you all look like you had fun Lucy x
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