Hans Faber
A Horsewoman from Harlingen in the Scottish Highlands
May 2017. One of the Frisian bastards hiked the Cape Wrath Trail. A hike of about 300 kilometers through the remote Northwest Highlands...
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Hans Faber
- Nov 14, 2021
- 11 min
Rescuing Rolling Sheep
Hiking needs careful preparation, including personal safety. What do you put in your First Aid Kit? Do you possess basic first aid skills...
Frans Riemersma
- Aug 1, 2021
- 3 min
10 words to travel 1,500 years and miles across the Frisian shores
Are these white letters on the wall encrypted gibberish to you? With learning a handful of keywords, you'll have deciphered them in no...
Hans Faber
- May 29, 2021
- 8 min
More Flying 'Dutchmen'
On the first of February 2020, one of the Frisian bastards of the Frisia Coast Trail tramped the trail section from the town of Bad...
Hans Faber
- Jan 7, 2021
- 3 min
Presence of mind to ask the right question
‘The path will provide,’ is a familiar saying of hikers on the trail. The flipside of this attitude is you might not have the keenness to...
Hans Faber
- Jan 6, 2021
- 9 min
A Wadden Sea Guide and His Twelve Disciples
For those outdoor freaks who consider hiking the mud flats of the Wadden Sea, it is essential to know this is, in fact, not a worldly...
Hans Faber
- Jan 4, 2021
- 4 min
Expelled from Regal Grounds
July 1987. The two bastards, both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum, or Winaem in Mid-Frisian...
Hans Faber
- Sep 5, 2020
- 11 min
Women of Anjum or One Night in Anjum
Late in the afternoon, December 28, 2018, one of the Frisian bastards arrived at Anjum after a hike that had started at Holwerd. A walk...
Hans Faber
- Oct 6, 2019
- 7 min
Gerddwyr Croeso
Last year one of the bastards hiked the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in southwestern Wales (Cymru), a 290 kilometres long trail. As every...
Hans Faber
- Oct 12, 2018
- 8 min
Support for the Corsican Cause in jeopardy
September 2018, one of the bastards hiked the Grande Randonnée 20 in Corsica. Or, as the French say, la GR-vingt. The GR20 is considered...
Hans Faber
- May 23, 2018
- 9 min
Racing the Wadden Sea with a Silt Sled
The mud flats of the Wadden Sea are endless. But what to do with it? How do you give meaning to mud? Yes, one cubic-meter mud flat...
Hans Faber
- May 17, 2017
- 10 min
"My God, the Germans bought all the bread!" cried Moira
The essence of the Frisia Coast Trail is hiking through the heartland of (former) Frisia and to taste the landscape, its history, its...
Hans Faber
- Apr 17, 2017
- 7 min
Walking the Sea
The treacherous mudflats of the Wadden Sea. They are UNESCO protected, but you're not. Take good care when walking sea. Read and shiver!