Limburg

So, for the second part of our fieldtrip (which was about a month ago, wow time flies!) we went down south. We spent 48 hours in the province of Limburg. It was a beautiful, scenic, hilly area, full of tourists on bicycles. Having fieldwork all day was fun, but the evening lectures did not give us much time to explore. But, of course, I took photos.

We spent a day and a half in the field. We put our hiking books on and trekked through farmland to find small streams. Or we put on the waders to swim in the river. I was fortunate enough that my stream was a trickle only 20cm deep as opposed to the rushing stream that was 1.3m deep (or past my shoulders) to measure the flow. We took samples and analysed them in the back of a mobile lab. I'm sure the locals thought we were crazy. But I'm not quite sure who the locals are. In one afternoon we were shuttled between Holland, Belgium, and Germany. In one neighborhood you could step into the stream in Holland and get out in Germany. We would have had so much fun with illegal border crossings before Schengen.