Elly has been in Bucharest since very early on Tuesday. I flew out to meet her yesterday (Friday). My flight was due to take off at 19:00 but took off after 19:30, after a sudden gate-change from 4 to 18, because the place was at gate 17. A 3 hour 30 minute flight landed me in Bucharest Otopeni airport around 1am Romanian time. Here’s what happened since… Continue reading
 view from our hotel |
 tugging |
 weird boat |
 bow of weird boat |
 There were whale paintings on the road, and many whale-flags. |
 ferry approaching |
We had decided to finished the holiday with a few days in Zaandam. We came here in late 2016: here’s our stories from then. So yesterday (Sunday 8 September) was taken up by a relatively long (42 miles) trip. No rain, little wind but much wiggling: https://cyclemeter.com/dd47ea6f33590baa/Cycle-20190908-1049-80348. I’d been keen to see the completely reclaimed countryside of Flevoland, and got it.
 street-names en route |
 Miles of straight, smooth tarmac made this a pretty smooth run. |
 crossing from Flevoland to Muiden (mainland) |
 Crossing from Flevoland to Muiden (mainland) |
Today has been a deliberately lazy day: breakfast, shopping, coffee, more shopping, more coffee, dozing, cinema, sleep Tomorrow we might be energetic!
Our hotel in Zaandam
Hello from a cafe outside the Batavia Museum! There is much on how they are rebuilding old sailing ships here. Not a surprise that this is a lively area. We are in a city, a city on land reclaimed from water. Cycling through wiggly suburbs is such a change to cycling through countryside! Continue reading
 setting off along the dike |
 streamlined recumbent |
 approaching Lelystad |
 approaching Lelystad |
 street-name |
 Enkhuizen marina |
 about de Taanhuis |
 inside de Taanhuis |
 about the smoke-houses |
 inside the smoke-houses |
 about a house from Merken |
 inside the house from Merken |
 about a corner-shop |
 inside the corner-shop |
 inside the corner-shop |
 random building |
 around the museum |
 about a house from Marken |
 inside the house from Marken |
 about a fish-auction |
 inside the fish-auction |
 about tanning |
 more about tanning |
 more about tanning |
 more about tanning |
 more about tanning |
 about the Aeronef |
 the Aeronef |
 about a dike-house |
 the dike-house |
 about chalk-ovens |
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 museum layout-information |
 museum layout-information |
 about the Zuiderzee museum |
 more about the Zuiderzee museum |
 looking back at the museum |
 I was intrigued by the ride of this thatched hut. |
 another view of the thatched hut |
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 about the bronze-age hut |
 bronze-age hut |
 bronze-age hut |
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 about the brush-maker |
 outside the brush-maker’s |
 inside the brush-maker’s |
 Elly is not an exhibit! |
 Shy sheep |
 flounder |
 boiler-room(?) |
 about the boiler-room |
 steam engine |
 boiler and steam-engine |
 about the steam-laundry |
 laundry |
 about van der Kamp laundry |
 more about the van der Kamp laundry |
 about Zuiderzee tastes |
 What to use for polishing your stove! |
 forge |
 about the high street |
 painted radiator |
 about the pharmacy |
 Enkhuizen marina |
 sailing |
 about Paulus Potter |
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 Paulus Potter sketching a goat… |
 … and his model. |
 Note the weathervane |
 view of Enkhuizen |
 view of Enkhuizen |
 view of Enkhuizen |
 Bookbinder Street |
Today was a shopping and sightseeing day. Cyclemeter map for now, photos below.
 Sheep in Den Burg market |
 The White Angel – sells all manner of Texel wool |
 how to use a sheep |
 A nation of cyclists! |
 Hope to auction fish |
 Elly gaming |
 outside exhibits |
 Jutter boat, previously used by Texel jutter Sil Boon. (A jutter is a beachcomber or scavenger.) |
 about the next few photos |
 lifeboat capsule |
 inside the lifeboat capsule |
 lifeboat capsule pilot’s station |
 inside the lifeboat capsule |
 about the lifeboat capsule’s air supply |
 ship interior |
 mammoths! |
 mammoth tusk |
 wine, women and song? |
 rubber gloves |
 penicillin |
 whiskey galore |
 Aye-aye captain! |
 snail-flour! |
 de Koog beach |
 de Koog beach |
 de Koog beach |
OK, it’s an island and it has tarmac, so Bruce has to go around it. Fortunately, Elly isn’t averse to a little cyclo-circumnavigation, either, and so off we went. Of course there was headwind both ways, so please don’t laugh too much as the speed on the cyclemeter map.
But we had 37 miles of being tourists, hence a lot of photos! Continue reading
So we are at the hotel 14 Sterren, on Texel. It’s a Saturday afternoon and there is the sound of a wedding in the background. It’s going on at the restaurant in the buildings next to where we are staying. We have had a short but fun ride to get here, and that was yesterday, cycling from Alkmaar to here.
Today’s very short cycles were into the centre of town and back:
Cycling without luggage was welcome. I don’t think we are at the full strength of former years at the moment. That is, we could have done the 36 miles from Alkmaar to our place in Texel in a morning or even the full 58 from IJMuiden to Texel, (i.e. IJMuiden to Alkmaar and Alkmaar to Texel) in a day if we had wanted. But we didn’t want. This is holiday, which means we don’t have to strain our bahookies. Continue reading
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