Cycling in Belgian Limburg: Landal Park Eksel as a sustainable base
In recent years, the Belgian Limburg region has emphatically profiled itself as a cycling region. Not only by attracting various championships (including the European Cycling Championships), but also by developing a number of specific ‘cycling attractions’, with the aim of attracting tourists to the region. Precisely to cycle. In that region, we are too [...]
New gravel classification links South Limburg and Drenthe
Two of the Netherlands' most beautiful gravel regions will be linked in a new league from 2025: the Lowlands Gravel League (LGL). The initiators of the Marly Grav Race in Zuid-Limburg and the Gravel One Fifty in Drenthe are joining forces and together introducing a unique, two-part competition for gravel riders. Lowlands Gravel League launched Ride your [...]
Within 4 hours' drive: top destinations for a cycling weekend! - Cycling Destination
Cycling destinations less than 4 hours' drive from central Netherlands. These places are places you must have cycled once!
Cycling on the border between two Limburgs
Earth does not take into account arbitrary country borders. A hill can be in Belgium for 50% and the rest in the Netherlands. That doesn't matter to nature. That hill remains and whether you cycle over it from the Netherlands towards Belgium or vice versa. The hill remains the hill. The Limburg region, [...]
Cycling in Limburg starts on the Cauberg
'Look, I got this one from Mathieu'. Gert Veenhuizen says it almost casually. In his own created cycling hall, on top of the Cauberg, Mathieu van der Poel's jersey is almost unnoticeable. After all, there are other jerseys of world champions hanging there. 'That pink one belongs to Dumoulin, when he won the Giro.' That one, in turn, hangs next to [...]
Gravel in South Limburg: Same Limburg, different world
Those who think of Limburg often think of the Cauberg and the Keutenberg. But for those who love gravel, a completely different world awaits in the south of the province. Gravel in southern Limburg means the characteristic 'hollow roads', the familiar rolling plateaus, classic Limburg climbs and surprising single tracks. Of course interspersed with the typical [...]