{"id":367,"date":"2014-10-27T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=367"},"modified":"2020-02-04T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:08:30","slug":"lonely-planet-pt-1-they-dont-get-the-essence-of-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Planet pt 1: they don&#8217;t get the essence of TRAVEL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, the small southwestern part of Holland along the Belgian border where I was born and grew up, is done away with by Lonely Planet as an irrelevant region of farmland and chemical plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now this is not true. There are some interesting old buildings in the towns of Hulst, Sluis, Aardenburg. There are characteristic tree-lined \u2018polder\u2019 dikes. In the half submerged conservation area of Saeftinghe over 200 types of birds have been spotted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But \u00edf it were true, what\u2019s wrong with farms and factories? A TRAVELLER is curious. He first and foremost wonders what a place is like. Beautiful or not, that matters less. Whether there is \u2018something to see\u2019 is a worry of tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then: a TRAVELLER is open to everything. A cloud in the sky. Furrows in a field. The daily life of the one hundred thousand people living in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Lonely Planet they don\u2019t understand this essence of TRAVEL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lucht-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lucht-4.jpg 350w, https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lucht-4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lucht-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"76\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lucht-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?attachment_id=76\" class=\"wp-image-76\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lucht-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"77\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lucht-2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?attachment_id=77\" class=\"wp-image-77\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, the small southwestern part of Holland along the Belgian border where I was born and grew up, is done away with by Lonely Planet as an irrelevant region of farmland and chemical plants. Now this is not true. There are some interesting old buildings in the towns of Hulst, Sluis, Aardenburg. There are characteristic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/?p=367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lonely Planet pt 1: they don&#8217;t get the essence of TRAVEL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[87,85,84,86,88],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gen-eng","tag-lonely-planet","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-travel-vs-tourism","tag-zeeuws-vlaanderen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterblog.rdeman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}