Hans FaberApr 1013 minWalfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.This post is not about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland, and who founded the Scottish football...
Hans FaberDec 12, 20215 minA Horsewoman from Harlingen in the Scottish HighlandsMay 2017. One of the Frisian bastards hiked the Cape Wrath Trail. A hike of about 300 kilometres through the remote Northwest Highlands...
Hans FaberNov 14, 202110 minRescuing Rolling SheepHiking needs careful preparation, including personal safety. What do you put in your First Aid Kit? Do you possess basic first aid skills...
Hans FaberMay 29, 20217 minMore 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 FaberJan 7, 20213 minPresence 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 FaberJan 6, 20219 minA Wadden Sea Guide and His Twelve DisciplesFor 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 FaberJan 4, 20214 minExpelled from Regal GroundsJuly 1987. The two bastards, both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum, or Winaem in Mid-Frisian...
Hans FaberSep 5, 202011 minWomen of Anjum or One Night in AnjumLate 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 FaberOct 6, 20197 minGerddwyr CroesoLast year one of the bastards hiked the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in southwestern Wales (Cymru), a 290 kilometres long trail. As every...
Hans FaberJul 21, 20198 minAnother brick in the wallWho has not dined at least once in an ’80s Chinese restaurant that carried the name ‘The Great Wall’? At least you have been at one for a...
Frans RiemersmaNov 3, 20183 minTake a virtual hike through Zuid-Holland and UtrechtThis blog is a virtual hike. Grab a coffee and go 200 kilometers per hour. When ploughing through piles of research on where the Frisians...
Hans FaberOct 12, 20188 minSupport for the Corsican Cause in jeopardySeptember 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 FaberJul 1, 201827 minOne of history’s enlightening hikes, that of BernlefThis post is not about the Westfrisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen-name was Bernlef. Nor is this post about the...
Frans RiemersmaDec 28, 201710 minThe biography of Aldgisl, unpluggedEver heart of Aldgisl? Even if you did, you probably have a hard time separating fact from fiction. For a fact it is the first king of...
Hans FaberJun 1, 20174 minBoots made for walkin’Besides Nancy Sinatra’s 1966 recommendation in her song; what kind of boots would we recommend to hike the Frisia Coast Trail? The...
Hans FaberMay 17, 201710 min"My God, the Germans bought all the bread!" cried MoiraThe essence of the Frisia Coast Trail is hiking through the heartland of (former) Frisia and to taste the landscape, its history, its...
Hans FaberMay 4, 20176 minLodging etiquette in OstfrieslandBefore the owner of the house agrees to give you lodging for the night, it might be you have to show him your silver. Like a computer...
Hans FaberApr 17, 20176 minWalking the SeaThe treacherous mudflats of the Wadden Sea. They are UNESCO protected, but you're not. Take good care when walking sea. Read and shiver!
Frans Riemersma and Hans FaberMar 24, 20176 minIntroducing the Frisia Coast TrailWhy did we create the Frisia Coast Trail in the first place? Do you know that feeling of having more hobbies than time? We do. We suffer...