The 3rd Tank Bag Tour of 2019 has the start and end points in Tilburg-Zuid at the McDonald's. Rich Roman Life. The harshness of the clergy. That Archbishop Simonis in the eighties of the last century thought he could explain the difference between men and women from the difference between ovum ('passive') and sperm ('active').
More nonsense is claimed, in the Catholic Church (and beyond). In fact, the whole church is chatting to each other. The only difference is that I can enjoy it nowadays. Dear God, how good the weather was, there in the Catholic South, in the Kempen, where this route leads through. But of course it starts with a short drive.

At Tilburg you exchange the A58 for Gilzerweg and Bavelseweg and Klein Heike. Countryside so and you can smell it, there is a penetrating smell of vulture. Immediately send a warning: watch out for elderly couples on electric bicycles, because you will find them here a lot. I had almost one between my front fork. And crossing cats are also regularly seen here. In the meantime, you can enjoy yourself on Wildertstraat and Putvenweg and Fransbaan, right through the woods.

Your first stop follows in Baarle-Nassau, a kind of tourist trap around a rara church tower, where they guide the traffic right through the center, occupied by hundreds of day trippers. So quickly continue, zigzag through the farmland; it colors nicely on a sunny day, with red and green and yellow and blue.

We run into Belgium as we turn and turn. You notice it in small details; You will not easily find an unnamed road in the Netherlands and you will find villas in the craziest places. Of course you will stop at the Postel abbey. Of course Postel has its own beer, in the abbey shop you can buy a nice triple, but your attention will certainly fall on the many herbal mixtures that are prepared behind the walls of the monastery. With the most striking derrière cream, especially if you have sat on your lazy ass for too long! Derrière cream, how do they make it up? And if Nivea would have come with it, but no, Brother Guy, from the abbey in Postel!

Then it goes fast. You are not yet back in the Netherlands or you pass the Holy Cross chapel in Luyksgestel. And what you see there ... It starts with Saint Anthony Abbot, as always accompanied by a pig at his feet. Then St. Lucia emerges, clearly recognizable by the sword that pierces her throat. finally you are standing in front of a painting in which Sint-Nicolaas brings the three children to life that were cut into pieces and spiked in by an unscrupulous host!

Before we reach the end of this Tank Bag Tour, some fine kilometers follow, over the Hoge Rijt that takes us from the farming village to the other, Kranenberg with its cobblestones and the Dunsedijk, a sandy path through nature. Along the way you will visit Eersel, if only out of respect for the figurine of the Contente Man. In Hilvarenbeek, with such a beautiful Vrijthof, you can visit the Dansant Museum. Here are ten original barrel organs.
Eventually you end up in Tilburg, in the Peerke Donders Pavilion, Museum for Charity. Peerke Donders? Yes, from the slogan: 'Holy Peerke, give' em another meter '. In the war years, the Tilburg people asked the 'apostle of the lepers' to do a good word for them with the Lord. After all, Peerke was blessed because of his good works in Suriname. Well, maybe he could also prevent more German people from being killed by German fire. Hence 'meter', which is meant as a head start on the enemy. And let the liberation of Tilburg, on October 27, 1944, now coincide with the birthday of our friend. In Rich Roman life that is of course no coincidence! (Source: Promoter 04-2019).

Because I have driven large parts of this route myself, this route gets 4 stars.