Tour of Geldrop, Nuenen and Strabrechtse Heide

From Heeze Castle you can drive straight into the Strabrechtse Heide. In the adjacent Molenheide nature reserve you cycle through a nice, fresh-smelling coniferous forest towards Geldrop. Here too you will see an old and imposing castle. It is surrounded by a nineteenth-century landscape park. In the valley of the Kleine Dommel you pass the seventeenth-century Collse Mill, which was painted in 1884 by Vincent van Gogh. In Nuenen you make a pit stop on the cozy terrace of Comigo Lunchroom & Restaurant, after which you cycle past the Van Gogh Church from 1824. You drive to Helmond via the Papenvoortse Heide. South of this town you drive through the Groot Goor: a nature reserve with reedlands and an old and varied moist forest. You cycle back to Heeze Castle through the Strabrechtse Heide.