Ride: 76km; total: 1,535km
Fine, partly cloudy, stayed cool all day 7-14deg
Breakfast wasn't till 8:00am so it was a late
start for our ride. We went directly to our first village after I had received precise instructions from the
reception lady. Graham was suspicious
about taking a short cut but happy to miss a big loop into town and back.
Today was up there with the best cycling day I've ever
experienced. Flat as a tack, tailwind, cool and through a completely new
type of landscape for me. Being Holland
there were dikes, canals, streams, rivers, dams and ponds everywhere.
Just about every house was surrounded by some form of water. The houses
and farms were immaculately manicured, the hedges trimmed to perfection, with veggie/flower
gardens anyone would be proud to call their own. There were all types of farm animals and
four-legged mowers, including the cutest miniature goats I've ever seen.
Just as Graham was checking the first motel, The Kinderdijk,
it started to rain, so we immediately took a room for 90euro incl breakfast, a
reasonable price. A view of 16 windmills from the room window and the
Rhine, with its passing parade of shipping about 25m from the in-house
restaurant window, confirmed that we were in Holland. Had our daily cup of
afternoon tea there. A fitting finish to a great day.
Tomorrow Graham leaves on the ferry from Rotterdam to Hull, UK so I'll be on my own again till Wendy arrives
in Amsterdam
next week. Had a really nice dinner, cod & veggies in the restaurant
then early to bed as it was too cold and wet for any walking. The unheated room was also cold. The weather turned fairly ordinary overnight
with the rain and wind beating against the windows. Luckily we only had
to ride 3km to catch the ferry across to Rotterdam
in the morning. I used the wifi to book a motel on line for a two day
stay there.
Dinner venue
Museum 'Buren and Oranje'
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