Taste the silence in North Brabant

In North Brabant you will still find the peace and quiet of yesteryear. This route takes you through the rural area between Roosendaal and Breda. You pass through many old hamlets, but also through the extensive Rucphense Forests.

Brabant hamlets
The first kilometers you drive through a landscape of fields, meadows and streams. You regularly pass a tree nursery, occasionally you pass a small forest plot. It is nice and quiet cycling here so close to the border with Belgium. The kilometers pass almost automatically. You pass through old hamlets where time sometimes seems to have stood still. You also cycle a bit through the Lange Gooren and Krochten, an elongated nature reserve consisting of coniferous forests and swamps.

Wallsteijn estate
Along quiet roads you arrive at Wallsteijn, an estate where conifers, old oak avenues and agricultural land surrounded by hedgerows alternate. The neoclassical country house was built around 1810. Further on you drive through the extensive Rucphen Forests. Take a deep breath and enjoy the fragrant conifers. Near Rucphen you pass the Heimolen, a flour mill from 1844. The route ends at De Menmoerhoeve: time for a terrace!