Cross-border Tour: An ice cream across the border

A tour from Bentheim Tourismus. Very varied!

The 2nd day of the tour 🇳🇱 "Hallo Niederlande" 🇳🇱. Past the historic lock at Vechtesee, the bike tour leads along the Nordhorn-Almelo Canal to the Frensdorfer Haar lock – the border to the Netherlands. Shortly before Denekamp, we pass the famous ice cream parlor "De Ijskuip" 🍨 and the Hennie Kuiper Cycling Museum 🚴‍♂️. It was still a bit too early for an ice cream, a shame really ☹️. Afterwards, we follow Singraven Castle 🏰 and watermill. A short stop for a ☕️, we just had to pause here to enjoy this idyll. We continue to the artists' village of Ootmarsum, where there are many galleries 🧑‍🎨🎨 and craft shops. Definitely a worthwhile destination. Strolling through the alleys and looking at the art in the small shops is definitely recommended. Narrow singletrails then led us through a somewhat hilly landscape. We wouldn't have expected to gain a few meters in altitude here 🏔️. The next destination was the historic town of Lage, located on the Dinkel river. (Very interesting history, worth googling). Past the old watermill, we cycle to a café stop ☕️ 🍰 at Frenswegen Monastery ⛪️. Here you can find the most delicious homemade cakes 🍰 and pies 🥧, which the super nice boss 👩‍🍳 bakes herself daily. The return journey to Nordhorn leads along the Vechte river. Conclusion of this tour: The cycle paths of the entire route are first-class. The landscape on both sides 🇩🇪/🇳🇱 is very varied and impressive. Our thanks go to the Grafschaft Bentheim Tourismus team for providing the tours 👏 🙋‍♀️ 🙋🏼‍♂️.

A very nice route from Nordhorn. A bit of town at the beginning and then nice to our taste = a lot of back roads. Ootmarsum is always a nice destination. Very busy today. So no photos of it.

A great tour, just the way I like it. Lots of byways, great scenery, nice along the water.

Admittedly, the name of this tour is a bit awkward. We have already driven this tour and modified it a bit... Turned the direction of travel and made small changes. On the second half of the tour we stopped at a Rust point and bought two delicious cookies, which is how the tour got its name.

We did the tour once last year. Now we're doing it again, with a slightly different route at the beginning, along the border path.

Beautiful bike ride through the Netherlands and Germany. Enough places to have lunch along the way. Enough benches and rest points along the way to have a coffee and a sandwich. Cycle paths are partly on narrow church paths, can be annoying when you get oncoming traffic.

By bus to Nordhorn🚍. Super organized by Thiesing, we cycled towards Ootmarsum. A nice little cozy place has to be repeated