Post-Tour "Mill wonders in Flanders"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tour will start on Sunday June 10th after breakfast and will take you in 4 days to the wonderful mills of Belgian Flanders.

 

The emphasis will be on both originality and successful restoration and will include aspects of the typical Flemish heritage of many centuries. See appendix 2 for a summary.

 

The tour will end on Wednesday afternoon June 13th, presumably around 4.00 pm, after which it will be arranged that participants reach either Brussels-Midi (for Thalys, Eurostar and Cologne evening trains, or even for a fast train to Schiphol airport), or Amsterdam Schiphol airport (for a very late night flight or nearby hotel accommodation), or hotel Mooi Veluwe at Putten (to pick up your car or for hotel accommodation).

 

Note: Final evening meal and hotel accommodation on Wednesday June 13th are not included, considering the probably differing travel plans of participants. It cannot be guaranteed that participants will be on time for flights departing from Amsterdam Schiphol airport on the evening of June 13th.

 

Schedule: (still subject to alteration)

Sunday      June 10th

(tour begins after breakfast) world's tallest windmill (under reconstruction) at Princen-hage; post mill at Zundert; border crossing; water-powered oil mill; chain-driven cap winder; flour-producing tower mill with a collection of steam engines (all in the province of Antwerp); hotel in Antwerp

Monday      June 11th

two cap winders; a very old watermill; oil mill originally horse-driven; combined flour and oil smock mill; post mill with two pairs of stones; water-powered oil and corn mill; post mill operated by one of the area's last professional millers and millwrights (all in the province of Antwerp); hotel in Antwerp

Tuesday     June 12th

(provinces of East and West Flanders) three tower mills in working order (one is octagonal); post mill on a tall roundhouse with a reefing stage; three cap winders (one with patent sails); small flax scutching hollow post mill; working tide mill (tide permitting!); hotel in Gent

Wednesday June 13th

watermill with gearing in a typical brick-walled pit; idyllically situated overshot watermill; another post mill; last remaining watermill for paper production (museum) in Flanders; drop-off at Brussels-Midi railway station; border crossing; drop-offs at Amsterdam Schiphol airport (or near-by hotel) and hotel Mooi Veluwe at Putten

 

(permission obtained from photographer)

 

 

(permission obtained from photographer)

 

 

 

 

 

 


Last update: September 1st, 2006