Loppersum Travel Guide

 sim1 Says:  Loppersum is located in the Province of Groningen in the north-eastern part of the country. It is about 22 kilometres north-east of the city of Groningen and about 14 kilometres south-west of the city of Delfzijl. 

 sim1 Says:  Yesss... there goes a train to Loppersum! And it goes about every half hour from Groningen to Delfzijl, so it is quite a good connection. In the evenings and it the weekends the train doesn't go as frequent though. The train ride from Groningen to Loppersum takes about 30... 

 sim1 Says:  In these off the beaten path tips, I want to show you a little bit of the surrounding villages. This first picture is of a little village called Stedum. Originally the tower stood free from the church, the connecting part between them dates from the 19th century. Stedum is... 

 sim1 Says:  This is a picture that brings out the best memories that I have of the Province of Groningen. Standing in this field of cole-seed, with its beautiful yellow flowers and it's scented flowers brings me back to my childhood.....There used to be so many of these cole-sead fields... 

 sim1 Says:  Loppersum is located in a very rural area. It don't think it can get much more 'rural' than this actually. The village is surrounded by farmland. Lots of it is pastures with grazing cows. 

 sim1 Says:  Sometimes you have to pass an obstacle on your bicycling trip, like this little bridge, called hoogholtje, over the canal "the "Wijmers", close to Loppersum. You can't bike over this bridge, but you have to push you bike on a quite steep slope on the bridge, and off again on... 

 sim1 Says:  One thing you can do very well in this area is going on a bicycle trip! There are so many bicycle paths in the area, which bring you through the typical Groninger landscape. The landscape is very flat (actually, it can't get any flatter than this), so you don't have to worry... 

 sim1 Says:  This is the canal the "Wijmers" that goes through the village of Loppersum. My best memories of this canal is going skating on it in the winter, and canoeing in the summer. But the thing I did the most was bike along side the canal. This was my route going to school, which... 

 sim1 Says:  Something you don't expect in the North of Groningen... but they are there! The tulip fields!!! Aren't they beautiful! I love them! I can't remember that the tulips fields were here when I was a child. But the agriculture in the area has changed somewhat, and there are a few... 

 sim1 Says:  This is my favourite spot in the village: the windmill. It is called "de Stormvogel" and it is a corn mill, built in 1849. Translated "Stormvogel" means "Storm bird" and I kind of like that name :-) 

 sim1 Says:  This is a picture of the church in the centre of the village. The church of Loppersum is the largest village church in the province.The oldest known church at this location was a tuff Romanesque building. A part of the old church can still be found at the north side, close... 

 sim1 Says:  This picture is not taken in the village itself but about 3 kilometres away, close to the village of Zeerijp. This is a very old house, dated back to around 1667. This is what I do love about the countryside of Loppersum, the lovely old farms and houses. 

 sim1 Says:  This is another view of the same canal in Loppersum. The street in the picture is the Lagestraat (The low street). When you follow this street it will turn into the Hogestraat (the high street) and at the end (vaguely visible in the distance) is the big church of Loppersum. 

 sim1 Says:  One of the picturesque little streets in Loppersum is the Schipsloot. On the left-hand of the canal is the Lagestraat, and on the right-hand is just a tiny street which is called Schipsloot. There are many old and small houses along this little street and canal. I think they...