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Boswachterij Odoorn, when the heath turns purple
A short walk from Hotel de Oringer Marke lies boswachterij Odoorn: eighteen hundred hectares of forest, drifting sand and heath — loveliest in the weeks the heather turns purple.

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A short walk from Hotel de Oringer Marke lies boswachterij Odoorn: eighteen hundred hectares of forest, drifting sand and heath — loveliest in the weeks the heather turns purple.

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A story about the Hondsrug: how ice, sand and people together made a landscape that holds time, from glacial boulders to blooming heath.
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