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Ferry Days 2025: Cycling through the Meuse region

Written in: Dutch • Randy Koo • May 16, 2025

Cycle from bank to bank, hop on the ferry, and explore the most beautiful spots in Brabant, Gelderland, and Limburg. During the Ferry Days on May 16, 17, and 18, 2025, you will cycle along no less than 160 km of Maas riverbank, from the Land...

The flooding of the Meuse near Liège in 1926

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • 1 December 2016

The winter of late 1925 and early 1926 was particularly bad. For several weeks in December, temperatures in some places had dropped to -17 degrees below zero. But then the weather changed. As a result of heavy rainfall, the rivers reached the Rhine and...

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