What’s that stork doing?
Arnhem town centre has decided to do some landscaping and has built some shallow channels through the middle of the town.
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Category: EuroEpic19
Day 4 Amsterdam to Arnhem
In which Sid and Doris cross moorland and countryside they had no inkling of to arrive at the site of a poorly planned battle, A Bridge Too Far.
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Getting bikes fixed in Amsterdam
As mentioned, the bikes may not have been 100% shaken-down for this trip, and as we went across Essex the sounds of twang-crunch-b*ll*cks started to emanate from the Epic Progression.
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Virtual Souvenirs
What a fantastic place Amsterdam is. There are shops here with things I had to buy (the various continental e-adaptors) but also shops with things I want to buy. Which presents a problem.
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Pooing money!!
Mifter Bat says: I saw this on a seat in the Oude Kerke in Amsterdam. It’s a man pooing money!! Doris tells me it’s called a “misericord”, I think it should be called a “hilaricord”. Hee hee hee!
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Day 3 Holiday in Amsterdam
In which Sid and Doris do tourism in the first foreign country of their journey (of how many they do not yet know).
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First day in the Netherlands
Generally when you plan an Epic Journey you can structure it one of two ways. You can start off in an alien land and gradually come home (think Peking Paris), or you can start off in an easy place and gradually get harder.
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Lane Motor Museum
So we have disembarked from the ferry, done a bit of cycling and found a coffee shop. And in the coffee shop, to Sid’s delight, is a Dutch car magazine and in the car magazine is a report about the Lane Motor Museum.
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Second breakfast
“S” says: I have been trying to convince them about the importance of second breakfast.
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Day 2 Hook of Holland to Amsterdam
In which Sid and Doris discover bicycle priority and the cut and thrust of Dutch cycling.
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