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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Category: Cycling
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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Day 1 – The Entire Width of Essex to Harwich
In which Sid and Doris ride from Bishop’s Stortford to Harwich to stand on the cold dockside with other intrepid riders.
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Leaving England
Today’s route was more or less a straight dash to the coast. For the first section we cut out all the small roads round Essex villages that we’ve been using for the practice rides, and went straight through Takeley and Dunmow.
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EuroEpic 19 Map
This is the page where our reader(s) could find the map of our trip, updated every day. The route was logged on the bicycles, so if you zoom in you can see all the wrong turns, mistakes and bad decisions. Learn from us!
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