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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Daniel Boffey

‘It definitely isn’t flat’: Netherlands mountain trail proves an unlikely success

A map of the Dutch Mountain Trail.
The Dutch Mountain Trail is only partly tongue-in-cheek. Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Observer

The Netherlands, so the guidebook notes, has been “popularised as a flat land full of cheese and clogs”.

Enthusiasts behind the Dutch Mountain Trail, a 63-mile (101km) hike across seven glorious peaks – two of which are made from the spoil of old mines – merely ask, only a little tongue in cheek, that the world stops being so narrow minded.

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