Enjoy rural Utrecht

First you drive to the Nieuwkoopse Plassen, one of the last extensive low peat areas that the Netherlands once had. You will see swamps, but also hay fields, flowery meadows and reed fields. You then drive into the Cope landscape with its characteristic narrow plots: a subdivision pattern whose origins date back to the thirteenth century. You cycle along the Oude Rijn to Harmelen. Further on you make a pit stop at Brazzerie Abrona, after which you drive to Kasteel de Haar via the Maxima Park. Kockengen is an old mining village. The name comes from Cocagne, the French name for Luilekkerland. You cycle over a winding dike to Woerdense Verlaat. This hamlet was built near the lock in the Grecht, which was built in 1448. Here you see the Westveense Molen, a polder mill from 1676.