Beer Walks I: ‘O, dear that’s a gigantic tosti!’

Being outdoors on a lovely spring day enjoying the sun and awakening nature is a perfect outlook for a day off. Like all our walks through the Dutch countryside we have a goal that is related to beer and this time it is Brouwerij De Molen and the nearby Speciaal Bier Winkel in Bodegraven. Once a year Bodegraven is the Walhalla for beer enthusiasts from all over the world. We have visited the Borefts beer festival several times now but today we will visit Bodegraven without the masses around the mill although there is always a possibility of a full terrace when we will arrive.

The starting point for our walk is Gouda. Within a five minute walk from the Gouda Goverwelle train station we enter the Goudse Hout: a very attractive nature preserve. A perfect example of Dutch (flat) landscape. Beautiful yellow rapeseed, water with all sorts of birds, especially geese, and around it paths only accessible by bikers and walkers. We visit the so called Heemtuin which is located within this preserv

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