Sunday, October 2, 2022.
As is often the case, my partner and I decided to go for a ride along the Maas. Enjoying the beautiful autumn weather again after a week full of rain. Today wasn't going to be that nice either, but luckily it turned out differently after a small rain shower in the morning. When it cleared up, and even the sun came out, we quickly jumped into the car. Bring your camera, bring Gentle and go...
With my partner at the wheel, and I as a 'photographer' next to him. Now I have to laugh because I'm not a real photographer. But despite that, I really enjoy creating memories with my camera. Saving the moments we experience together. And while I do that, I enjoy the beautiful landscape we drive through, over the dike, along the Maas. The villages in the distance sometimes just seem to have been thrown down at random. They are easy to spot, especially by their church towers, and sometimes that's all you see in the distance. Then you only see fields and the Maas that meanders through them. With the glare of the sun in the water.
And even though we see this much more often, because we just drive around here more often, I continue to enjoy the variety of fields, villages, and then fields with a different piece of Maas each time, which you sometimes see. and sometimes not anymore. Sometimes close and sometimes very far away.
And when we start driving around like this, we've made a habit of making the same stops along the way every time. Our first stop is at the ferry between Lithooijen and Maasbommel. Then we stop at the locks in Lith. And every time the same question is, are there still boats today?? We did see sailing boats along the way, apparently the weather was good for that today. Enjoying the water. Unfortunately we didn't see them at the ferry or at the locks. However, 1 yacht in the lock, and then a very large container ship in the large lock, especially for cargo boats.
When we have seen everything again, it is time to slowly drive back home through the polders. Along the way in the polders you have the typical Dutch landscape. The scattered farms that again seem to have been randomly placed. And of course we also enjoy the meadows with cows, sheep or horses. Unfortunately, you see that less and less. Today we were lucky and we could enjoy it extra. And certainly now that the corn is bruised everywhere again, we have an extra wide view, and the animals can eat again next winter.
On the way home we drive through Heesch, a last village that seems to have been randomly placed, and which is also so small that we drove through it in a flash. That's the last thing we see before we get back to our home town. Oss, a medium-sized city in the Netherlands. With about 58,000 inhabitants and a rich history dating back to about 2000 BC.
Who knows, maybe I'll try to take more pictures of that soon, just in my own hometown. See if I can show some history of Oss. No promises!
I hope you enjoyed 'my Sunday' as much as my partner and I did.
