Coming out of Bergen op Zoom, we biked to a now park and very beautiful fortification called Fort De Roovere. It was originally conceived as part of the defences of the 80 year war against the Spanish. And then used again in the 1700’s by the French occupiers, rather unsuccessfully as it didn’t hold up and the French lost the defence. And used in the Napoleonic Wars.
Fort De Roovere is a series of star like trenches that would fill with water. How well this works is questionable.
Today, Fort De Roovere is a beautiful park, with a place to climb up and the Moses Bridge where the water on either side of you is up to your middle.
The world around me 