Enjoy in the Netherlands and across the border

It is nice and quiet cycling around Roosendaal. Here you drive through Brabant's charming villages and hamlets, through the Rucphense Forests and the Molenbeek Valley.

You start and end the route in the village of Zegge. In the area you will see a striking remnant from the time when this area was developed for agriculture: almost all roads and canals are straight and run from west to east. The main street of the village is perpendicular to these roads.

The Rucphen Forests were originally a cover sand ridge on which heathland and drifting sand areas lay. In the early twentieth century, the area was planted with conifers such as Scots pine, Douglas fir and European larch. Nowadays you also see deciduous trees, grasslands and oak coppice banks. In this wonderfully peaceful nature reserve, the kilometers seem to pass under your wheels.

After a trip through Belgium, you drive into the Molenbeek Valley via the village of Nispen. This humid nature reserve is located along the banks of the Watermolenbeek. You will see pollarded trees, old drinking pools, hay fields, but also newly planted deciduous forests. You enter Roosendaal via the meandering Watermolenbeek, where the Molenbeek Valley continues as a city park to the pleasant center.