🍷🎩 Bougie & Boozy Hike 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🏳️‍🌈 Bougie & Boozy hikers! 🍷✨

It’s time to put on your walking shoes and take our queer agenda somewhere suitably chic: ’t Gooi. 💅🌳
This time, we’re walking 14 km from Baarn to Bussum-Zuid, following a beautiful stretch of the Trek­vogelpad through the estates, forests and heathlands of one of the Netherlands’ most notoriously fancy regions. And with a new season of Gooische Vrouwen premiering this month, the timing could hardly be more appropriate. 🍸👠

Along the way, we’ll pass Kasteel Groeneveld, wander through its beautiful parklands and tackle the gloriously named Wijnberg (wine mountain). Which may not exactly be the Tuscanian vineyard you dream of, but on a hike called Bougie & Boozy, we simply had to include it. 🍇🍷 From there, expect a very Gooische mixture of stately estates, woodland paths, heath and plenty of autumn scenery as we make our way toward Bussum.

Our grand finale will be a suitably bougie pit stop at Café Restaurant Heidezicht, close to Bussum-Zuid, where we can reward our 14 kilometres of queer athleticism with some fancy wine, non-alcoholic drinks and snacks including a heather view. 🥂✨
We aim to wrap up around 17:00, including drinks, before strolling over to Bussum-Zuid station and taking the train home.

So dust off your pearls, hiking boots and oversized sunglasses and join us for a day of Gooische queer glamour and just a little daytime drinking in nature, channeling your inner Claire van Kampen. 💖🥾🍷

Schedule
10:15 Gather at Utrecht Centraal
10:37 Train to Baarn
11:04 Arrival in Baarn
11:10 Introductions & start hike
~13:00 Lunch/snack break along the way
~15:00–15:30 Arrival at Café Restaurant Heidezicht for fancy wine & non-alcoholic drinks 🍷
~17:00 Finish at Bussum-Zuid station & trains home

Practical info
📏 Distance: 14 km
🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 Meeting point: Utrecht Centraal at 10:15 / Baarn at 11:04
📍 Start: Baarn station
🏁 End: Bussum-Zuid station
🥾 Level: light-moderate – mostly forest, estate and heathland paths; a decent distance but no serious climbing
🍷 Essential cultural component: pretending we belong to the Gooische elite at Heidezicht (but actually, eat the rich! 😈)

Pack your:
🍱 lunch & snacks
🚰 water bottle
🥾 good walking shoes
🧥 raincoat/umbrella
🍂 clothes suitable for autumn weather
💳 some money for drinks at Heidezicht
🕶️ your most unnecessarily expensive-looking accessory
🏳️‍🌈 anything else you might need

❌ If you signed up and cannot make it in the end, please cancel your RSVP attendance so we know how many people will show up and someone else can take your place instead.

💗 A voluntary donation helps us to keep the Meetup group up and running :) you can either pay via a Tikkie or in cash after we finish the hike.

Hiking Queers Netherlands