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A winter walk around my town

February 14th, 2021 Hiking A bridge during sunrise in a winter landscape

Today was the first day the temperature reach above-zero-Celsius after a seven day freezing period. We really had winter for a week, and we all enjoyed it as much as we could.

I planned a walk for yesterday, but since we wanted to ice-skating (yes, on natural ice) I postponed the walk for a day.

At about 10 minutes past 7 in the morning, I left my home, and started walking. I planned a trip of 30km. See the tweet below.

Screenshot of tweet 1360826510198898692 where I share the map of my planned walk.
Screenshot of tweet 1360826510198898692 where I share the map of my planned walk

After witnessing a magical sunset, walking in the snow, between people ice-skating on natural ice for the first time since about 9 years was really special. I’m posting this on my blog, because I want as many of you to experience what I saw. Sure, these are just pictures, but you can get a sense of how it was.

Picture gallery

Here’s the picture gallery, I hope you enjoy the pictures! The complete route can be found below the pictures.

Snowy road and sunrise through the trees
Snowy field with a bridge and cloudy sunrise
Snowy field with a road in the middle and cut trees
Snowy field and a cloudy sunrise
Snowy field and a cloudy sunrise
Cloudy sunrise with a snowy field
Sunrise with a road alongside a frozen canal
A crow in a tree with some snow in high grass and bushes
Icy road with the sun behind thin clouds
People skating on ice
Low sun with a halo seen from a bridge (Doenbrug) over the Schie canal with some ice in it.
Snow and ice in a crop field with a small canal
People skating on ice in Berkel en Rodenrijs
People skating on ice on a canal between residential buildings in Berkel en Rodenrijs
Frozen canal with snow on the side and a distant sunrise
Sunrise through the trees
Ice on a canal with a sunrise on the background
Sunrise on a snowy landscape with a frozen canal
Just before sunrise on a snowy landscape
Sunrise on a snowy landscape
Sunrise on a snowy landscape
Dawn on a snowy landscape
Sunrise on a snowy landscape
Sunrise on a snowy landscape
Image of a sunrise behind high grass with a bridge on the left and frozen canal on the right.
Sunrise through a classic bridge over a frozen canal. In the blue sky a white stripe is seen from a plane.
Snowy fields
Sunrise through high grass and a frozen canal behind it.
Skyline of Rotterdam seen through some high grass and a frozen canal.
Sunrise with the Rotterdam skyline seen next to it.
Field with snow with view on Delft
Snow landscape with sunrise
Image of ice in the Schie near Schipluiden taken from the Kandelaarbrug

Strava route

Here’s the complete route on Strava:

About Marcel Bootsman

Marcel discovered the web in 1995. Since then he has paid attention to and worked with lots of technologies and founded his own WordPress oriented business nostromo.nl in 2009.

Currently Marcel is Business Development Manager Dutch & DACH Markets at Kinsta where he helps Kinsta's client base grow with Managed WordPress, Application, Database and Static site hosting.

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