Became a member in: 2024
Renewal Date: 28/Feb/2026
We are Ria and René, 76/77 years old. We have 2 grown-up sons. Our favorite activities are travelling, hiking, biking, dancing, swimming and playing bridge. Ria is a retired travel agent and René is a retired project manager at KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines). We had many exchanges (34), all over the world between 1983-2022. We moved to Nijverdal in June 2007, love our home. We are very careful and treat your home like we do our own.
We love nature, (small) cities, art and the beach.
Additional languages spoken
English, German
Affinities
Plants & Gardens,
Cycling / Mountain Biking,
Bridge,
Hiking,
The Arts
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Retirees,
Seniors
Profession
Retired travel agent (Retired)
Simultaneous Home Exchange
Smoking Not Allowed
No Children Please
Use of Personal Car is possible
May 25, 2025 - Sep 28, 2025 | Denemarken | Duitsland | Normandië, Frankrijk |
Description of the home we are offering for exchange
NO REQUESTS FOR 2024, PLEASE.
Our home is a modern (semi)bungalow (1990), surrounded by a nice garden with 2 terraces and 2 ponds, attracting many birds and offering a lot of privacy. There is a comfortable living area with open kitchen, dining-room and a conservatory. The master bedroom with electric king-size bed and the bathroom/toilet en suite with walk-in rain shower are situated on the ground floor. The other 2 bedrooms, a hobby room and 2nd bathroom are on the first floor. The indoor garage is connected to the scullery where you find the washing-machine, dryer and freezer.
Our house is on the edge of the Kruidenwijk, part of Nijverdal and the Wierdense veld, a nature reserve and 3 kms to the Schaapskooi with many sheep and the beautiful NP de Sallandse Heuvelrug.
Our home is not suitable for small children. We prefer an exchange with a couple. We had 34 home exchanges all over the world since 1983.
Type
House - 2 or more floors/ Main Residence
Amenities
Entertainment
Extras
Setting
Description of our neighbourhood and surrounding area
Nijverdal is a small town in Twente, a touristic area in the east part of the Netherlands, close to the German border (30 min. by car).
650 m from our home are a good supermarket, a bakery, snackbar and other shops. More shops in the center of Nijverdal.
There are many restaurants in Hellendoorn and Nijverdal.
You can visit different cultural activities: Memory Museum in Nijverdal, Scupture Garden Marienheem, Fundatie Museum in Castle Nijenhuis, Heino & in Zwolle, NP De Hoge Veluwe with Kröller Müller Museum, Paleis het Loo in Apeldoorn and Rijksmuseum Enschede.
Very special is the scenery of the National Park "De Sallandse Heuvelrug" (10 min. by car), where you can hike and bike for hours. There is a network of cycling junctions in our region Twente, Salland and the rest of the country. We have 2 electric bikes to use for comfort biking. You find forest and moorlands, which will be in a magnificent purple bloom in the months of August and the first week of September and where you can enjoy beautiful views. In our home we have lots of hike-, bike- and car-routes for a large area around our home.
Outdoor Activities
Leisure
Cultural Activities
Transport Nearby
Neighbourhood Services
Our home exchange - places to go and things to do while staying in our home
Cultural activities: Memory Museum in Nijverdal, Scupture Garden Marienheem, Fundatie Kasteel Nijenhuis in Heino, Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle..
Not far by car you'll find attractive old cities, like Deventer, Zutphen, Zwolle. Kampen and Amersfoort. One of the most famous, typical Dutch villages is Giethoorn with lots of small canals, farm-like houses and bridges. 1 hour by car. Very picturesque!
Shopping possibilities are in Rijssen, Almelo, Hengelo, Enschede and Zwolle, but also Nijverdal offers all you need.
Worth visiting are Palace De Loo in Apeldoorn, NP de Hoge Veluwe, Kröller-Möller Museum in Otterloo and the Open Air Museum in Arnhem. Very nice villages are Elburg, Harderwijk with the funny Manus van Dokkum Museum and Urk.
Amsterdam is only 2 hrs by car or train. One needs more than one day to discover all the museums (Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Anne Frank-house and many more), the restaurants and cafés. A canal cruise is a must! We have a car Suzuki Swift (2018) with automatic transmission, which we offer for exchange in case of a fly destination.
Our favourite restaurants
Cafés & bars
Leisure and cultural activities
Walks or jogging paths
Interesting day trips
Our home exchange - here are our Preferences and House Rules
It is important to find our house tidy if we come back and the plants are watered.
Conditions
Use of Personal Car
Home Exchange Type
Became a member in: 2024
Renewal Date: 28/Feb/2026
We are Ria and René, 76/77 years old. We have 2 grown-up sons. Our favorite activities are travelling, hiking, biking, dancing, swimming and playing bridge. Ria is a retired travel agent and René is a retired project manager at KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines). We had many exchanges (34), all over the world between 1983-2022. We moved to Nijverdal in June 2007, love our home. We are very careful and treat your home like we do our own.
We love nature, (small) cities, art and the beach.
Additional languages spoken
English, German
Affinities
Plants & Gardens,
Cycling / Mountain Biking,
Bridge,
Hiking,
The Arts
MoreLessAffiliations
Retirees,
Seniors
Profession
Retired travel agent (Retired)
Over 70 years of home exchange experience
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