Along the Merwede to Gorinchem

Be amazed by the vast, flat landscape of the Netherlands. You look hundreds of meters away, over fields and farms. Farmlands appear like dots on the horizon. Beautiful houses stand on large plots of land, while the plots of the various plots are demarcated and intersected by ditches excavated straight. The peace and space that characterizes the landscape from Schelluinen to Oud-Alblas provides a relaxed feeling in a typically Dutch setting. The largest place the cycle tour passes through is Gorinchem. The city probably originated when fishermen and farmers founded a settlement here around the year 1000. Corn mill Nooit Volmaak was built in 1718, after a storm destroyed a standard mill on this site.