Dave(for ospelgull)

It's called the 3 country's point(3 landen punt), where you can do 3 country's in just 2 or 3 seconds , just walk around the big pointy stone in front of Dave and Carol

Rolf is correct, it's the 3 landenpunt and it is situated near the small 'city' of Vaals. I try to visit this area once a month for some cycling (am I Alberto Contador in disguise...). It's also the highest place in Holland, some 322 meters above sealevel.

It's in the south of Limburg where we have some hills. The Ardennes ( just south of the border) in Belgium are even better for some serious cycling, they have hills who are up to 600 meters above sealevel.

I know that place as "Valkenburg" and cycled around there from the Ardennes for a couple of happy weeks a few (no, a good few!) years ago whilst based at a hillside chalet park near La Roche en Ardenne (Belgium)

We managed to get permission to ride around the Spa-Francorchamps GP circuit as well as tackle the infamous cobbled "wall" at Stavelot. Another day we rode all the way through the Bastoigne region to Luxembourg City and back (an epic that!) and on days out of the saddle went canoeing on the river.

An area much like the Teign Valley and Haldon Forest, the Ardennes is fantastic. Recently Bijou (my partner) spent a weekend in Leige (Luik) for a family wedding.

Merse,
Valkenburg is some 13 miles north-west of Vaals, but it's in the same area (zuid-Limburg/south-Limburg).

The Ardennes are brilliant, one of my favourite areas to visit nearby.

If you've been to La Roche just might even have visited Houffalize or even better the small village of Achouffe, the home of the famous McChouffe and La Chouffe beers!

Well despite having been at that very point of Dave and Carol's pic, I wasn't aware of Vaals.

Yes I've been to Houfalize, on that ride to Luxembourg and back. The countryside in the North of Luxembourg was quite "Swiss" if I may say so, although the city itself completely bland.

All around the Ardennes there are little groups of allied graves, set aside within existing churchyards and lovingly tended by the locals on behalf of British and American families of fallen ones in the Battle of the Bulge during the Second World War. I find that a total contrast and a rather touching juxtaposition to the huge War Cemeteries of Flanders to the North.

Another thought provoking spot is the Kemmelburg (between Steenvoorde and Ypres) climb often used in the Tour of Flanders and always in the Ghent - Wevelgem cycle races. Here, at the top of another viciously cobbled hill sits the ossuary where the bodily remains of dismembered soldiers who died in the First World War fighting over that spot are stored in a chapel beflagged in honour of all the countries of BOTH sides who contested that strategic hill at the cost of over thirty thousand lives. There is a sign informing visitors that the pleasantly wooded copse is a replacement for the one totally scorched and destroyed during the conflict.

When one recalls that the average age of the deceased was under 25, it is indeed very sad.

I used to do a lot of cycling in the areas beyond Calais and Dunkirk around fifteen to twenty years ago and recall such little towns as De Panne, Niewpoort, Looberghe, Mont Casell (another monster cobbled climb), Mont de Cats and Knokke Heist. Weaving in and out of France, Belgium and Holland was just part of the charm and constantly finding new beers to down became an art form for me and my mates!

I haven't done any cycling in the west of Belgium nor visited any cemeteries. The cemeteries over there are mostly WW1 cemeteries?

In Holland I've been to Margraten, there's an American cemetery.

And there's an English cemetery in the place where I live nowadays (Nederweert). Very impressive, especially if you see how young they were. They fought for our freedom, therefore respect!

Now Merse, you must tell me which Belgium beers you find the best. Maybe I can bring a bottle with me next time I come over for an away game around London