We arrived in Otterstadt after a challenging 53k ride assisted by some helpful locals and some helpful but not useful locals. We have discovered that people give instructions based on their driving knowledge, which means that you travel in circles only to discover that you were already on the right road. And it was too [...]
Well now that we are on the way and have a 51k bike ride under our feet we know we can do this funky thing. Yesterday we rode from Zevenaar in the Netherlands to Xanten in Germany and the total ride was 51.12 or something very close to that. It was just over 51 k’s [...]
These 2 oldies (did I really say that?); we are preparing for a bike ride of some 850 or 900 k’s depending on where you check. Sadly we are not training as much as we should, but we are getting together the bits and pieces that might just make the trip manageable and we are [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about The question has been asked – are we in good shape?
Last winter Best Beloved waited by the door to take photos of me as I returned after being caught in a snow storm. This year I returned the favour. Best Beloved was out purchasing serious supplies – (I think wine), and returned in rather snowy conditions. The photo was taken on 4th December. The effect [...]
There you go – we have succumbed to the lure of the car. Tis out now – we have driven ourselves by car – not public transport and bicycles in the UK We arrived home Sunday night, 10th October rather late, after a 10 day journey from Haarlem by train, via Ghent in Belgium, on [...]
Continue reading about Struth – We have succumbed to the lure of the car
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 [...]
Not ice skaters – too warm for ice now, but roller skaters, roller bladers, inline skaters – I think those are all terms to cover the fast moving people we met on Nassaulaan this evening. We were minding our own business. We had been for a quiet walk around town for about an hour, across [...]
Continue reading about this evening in Haarlem – we met at least 1000 skaters
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 [...]
