Motorcycle trips in the Netherlands
2 - To the war museum in Overloon
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Around half past nine I took my BMW R1200GS out of the garage for my ride to
the war museum in Overloon at Museum Park 1 in Overloon. But first I had to
refuel so I went to the De Meeuw gas station in Hoogerheide.
Out of the garage and in the sun, nice!
The weather was nice, actually a bit warm with a motorcycle jacket on so at a
gas station on the way to Overloon, I bought two bottles of water and also a
double Mars candybar. I immediately ate one little Mars candybar and drank a
bottle of water and kept the rest.
The next stop was in Sint-Michielsgestel where I saw a striking tower. The Old
Tower in Sint-Michielsgestel is a tower on the Petrus Dondersplein. A tower
that is a remnant of a church from the mid-15th century.
The Old Tower on the Petrus Dondersplein in Sint-Michielsgestel
Further on I stopped once more in a parking lot for the second little candybar
and a bottle of water and then I rode on to Overloon, to the war museum.
In Overloon it was a bit of a search where I had to to be. There was a building
with 'War Museum Overloon' on it but there was no registration desk.
Then I saw a sign that you first had to walk into the park to get to the museum
building.
I parked the BMW next to two Harleys that were also parked at the bicycle shed
to the right of the building and walked into the park.
The entrance of the museum park
A memorial for the fallen soldiers in the battle of Overloon in WWII
The main building of the museum
With the museum year card I could enter for free, so I went into the entrance
hall with a large eagle with a swastika on the ceiling. The museum is really
extensive and I could stick a scrapbook full of beautiful photos if I wanted.
There are also some very unique motorcycles from the war and a huge landing craft
from the Vietnam war.
The entrance hall with a NAZI eagle and a swastika
A Harley Davidson Liberator (WLA)
A Supermarine Spitfire
A Zündapp with sidecar (with machine gun) of the German army
A BMW of the German army, also with a sidecar
A 90-ton LARC-LX transport vehicle/vessel, from the Vietnam War
A n Indian 841 with transverse V-twin and shaft drive to the rear
wheel
A Harley Davidson with boxer engine, inspired by the BMW army
motorcycles
More than 2000 parts of a British Lancaster bomber
that crashed in Glabbeek in Belgium in 1945
After the museum visit, I had half a wrap of smoked chicken and
a cappuccino in the restaurant of the museum, before I walked back through
the Museum Park to my motorcycle.
Back at the exit I got on the BMW again and rode in the direction of
Veldhoven to have a look at the Motoport branch there. Along the way I filled
up the tank and bought another bottle of water.
Filling up with petrol (E5, Euro 98)
Around half past three I arrived at Motoport in Veldhoven
A Harley Bagger
Nice Suzuki Intruder chopper
After a cup of chocolate milk and a tour of the shop, which is much
smaller than Motoport in Goes, I rode back home.
At the start of my ride home, I still had highway avoidance turned on on the GPS,
but it's much too busy everywhere, even on the smaller roads, so when I arrived
in Tilburg, I was fed up with all that traffic. All day I had constantly been riding
behind a van or truck and couldn't ride on my own speed anywhere.
At a gas station in Tilburg I stopped to get a cup of coffee and then continued
the rest of my trip home on the freeway.
A cup of coffee at the Shell in Tilburg
I was back home around eight o'clock.
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