Hoek van Holland

30 April 2015:  We took a train from Paris, via Rotterdam, to Hoek van Holland today.  We left the rain behind in France, but the weather, while sunny, is cold and windy – just what one expects from the North Sea!

The GR5 starts right at the train station, so we actually hiked about a kilometer on the trail by walking to our hotel (appropriately named "Noordzee").  We then walked to the nearby beach to step in the water and to collect a sample of the North Sea that we plan to carry with us and to pour into the Mediterranean...