Border shopping around Baarle-Nassau and Ravels

You drive to Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog, the unique enclave village where the borders have been made visible with special pavement tiles and aluminum plates in the road surface. You cycle through the natural landscape to the Belgian Poppel, a nice village where you can admire the striking town hall. Then you drive through De Utrecht, a 2500-hectare estate that was mined in 1898 as an investment by the life insurance company of the same name. You can get off at the Panneven to enjoy the silence. You drive through the woods to Ravels, another charming Flemish town. Just before node 8 you will pass the reconstruction of a switch house from the First World War on the border.