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{"id":3136,"date":"2018-06-30T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.worldofwills.uk\/Home\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:32:56","slug":"middelburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/30\/middelburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Middelburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, having found Belgium, and been delighted by it, we continued on to&nbsp; the Netherlands, as per Plan A. &#8230;.Andrew had a couple of campsites earmarked, and, after a spot of diversionary routes around the town, we arrived at a small campsite, where no-one was at reception, nor was there any response to ringing the bell, so we toodled off to option 2. This turned out be a site run by the council, and what a place! OK, it was a tad &#8220;open to the elements&#8221;, i.e. damned breezy, but the facilities were top-notch- Villery and Boch toilets, no less, and everything was spotless. The campsite also had a fresh bakery delivery&nbsp; each morning..the cheapest and best croissants so far, this trip!<\/p>\n<p>We biked into town, with some help from a local, who spotted us with a map&#8230;&#8221;follow me&#8221; she cycled ahead, giving us a potted history of her town as we followed&#8230;how nice was that? We soon found out her civic pride was very understandable. Middelburg is a very charming town, with a lovely feel to it. There are several&nbsp; grand buildings, including many&nbsp; residential, and as our informal guide had told us, they had been flattened in WW2 and rebuilt to the original style. The central Market Place is a hub of activity, though sadly we&nbsp; narrowly missed the weekly market there. We were able to do our own tour of the town, by bike, punctuated by some stops for liquid refreshment&#8230;well, it was still very hot!<\/p>\n<p>You may recall, Andrew had spilled beer on his shorts in Ghent, well, he added to his laundry toll in Middelburg&#8230;some ice cream melted from his &#8220;Totally Nuts&#8221; ice cream cone, onto the same shorts, and&#8230;oh, the indignity, a pigeon shat on his shoulders in the Market Place. It was still a fantastic place to visit&#8230;we will go back one day, and he&#8217;ll get his revenge on that pigeon!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P6290002-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4724\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P6290002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P6290002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P6290002-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P6290002-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P6290002.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Middleburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, having found Belgium, and been delighted by it, we continued on to&nbsp; the Netherlands, as per Plan A. &#8230;.Andrew had a couple of campsites earmarked, and, after a spot of diversionary routes around the town, we arrived at a small campsite, where no-one was at reception, nor was there any response to ringing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/30\/middelburg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Middelburg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7496,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/7496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofwills.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}