Three days in a row!
Today was the first day we’ve cycled three days in a row. All our warm-up rides were two days max, and the last time we did a Beeg Treep was the Tour d’England in 2012 which is a surprisingly (for me) long time ago.
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Tag: Random
Hilarious town name!
Mifter Bat: What do cyclists do in Ass-whine? They whine about their… hee hee hee!!
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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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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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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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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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