In short – no we are not We are not in good shape for our ride – but we are working on it. And we will have time to do it, the trip I mean, after all Best Beloved will have retired – (forced to retire, unheard of in New Zealand), so we have nowhere [...]
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Today Sunday managed 6.7 k’s there has to be a better way! I can tell that I have not been on the bike for at least 4 months
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There you go – our first bike ride in our training program – for our bike ride to Switzerland from Haarlem in the Netherlands at the end of Best Beloveds job here come August this year. And we did manage a pathetic ride of 12.5k’s – and as it always does – the wind blew [...]
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Yes we cycle. And we have decided to cycle from Haarlem to our son in Untersiggenthal in Switzerland in August this year. Could be a crazy thing – two 60+ers and two 2nd hand city bikes and about 900k between our two homes. So I bought a book. Cycle for Life Bike Basics + Body [...]
On Sunday we went for a short, meandering bike ride, ostensibly to pick blackberries between Haarlem and Sloterdijk. We were armed with containers for the blackberries, sandwiches and liquid – a couple of cans of beer and fruit juices. Yes we picked blackberries, Yes there were plenty, but we were wearing sandals and that is [...]
It was last Sunday. We were well rested, and the effects of this spring seemed to have lessened a bit for us both. It was nearly a great day – this Bison hunting day. We left home reasonably early, and as we always do we took clothes for the rain, and clothes for the wind. [...]
I was feeling a bit under the weather yesterday so Best Beloved took a bike ride out towards Parnassia alone – looking for the entry to the Downs where there is a walk to “MAYBE” see the bison in the park. He did find the entry after riding past it and back again, and then [...]
Did you missed the Flower Parade? Watch the compilation video of TV West. It does take 25 minutes and is spoken in Dutch. But don’t let that put you off. You can just turn the sound down or off, So press the arrow on the screen and go. Get Flash to see this player. Flowers [...]
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Trip through Europe by flower parade
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Big Band on Bikes in Haarlem – orchestra on Bikes doesn’t sound right somehow. We had biked quietly to Hillegom in the late afternoon, and we watched the flower parade come through. We also had priviledged seats – seats that we had discovered when arrived in Hillegom – about 9.5 k’s from home in Haarlem. [...]
