We’ve arrived at our starting point, Breda, in the Netherlands, after having breakfast in France and lunch in Belgium 😎
It’s been a busy few days. We attended Peter and Sally’s fabulous wedding on Saturday (complete with llamas), a wonderful day of celebration with a wonderful couple, congratulations and much love to you both. It was a long drive yesterday down to Dunkirk, where we stayed in a very cool hotel, staffed it seemed entirely by machines. We ate last night on the Princess Elizabeth, one of the ‘little ships’ which evacuated soldiers from the beaches in 1940, now beautifully restored as a restaurant. After a visit to the museum this morning we headed east, stopped in Antwerp for a quick lunch, and then on to Breda where we assembled the tandem and rode to our hotel. The Netherlands is, of course, a very cycling-positive country, and the tandem is spending the night in a special secure storage (‘Fietsenstalling’)’ with a very nice man in charge.
And tomorrow we ride.
While we’re here, we’re hoping to tick off some icons of Dutch culture:
- Tulips (well, not actual flowering ones, obviously)
- Windmills
- Clogs (mouse optional)
- A ball of Edam
- Dykes
- Waffles (and/or pancakes)
Tomorrow we strike north for Kinderdijk, where windmills aplenty are promised.