So happy that Elly suggested waiting a day or two before getting bikes. We’ve been pottering around Zaandam, doing both holiday errands and sight-seeing. First stop supermarket = both of us like to have supplies! Continue reading
Sunday 18th: home to Zaandam
Travel details
| From | To | Details |
| Servants’ Quarters | Tram stop | walk |
| Tram stop | EDI | Sit😊 |
| EDI | AMS | flight KLM1286 (16:05 to 18:35) |
| AMS | Zaandam station | train (Sprinter 3358 – cyclemeter map! |
| Zaandam station | Innhotel, Provincialweg | walk 200m |
If the shoe fits, audibly?
More thoughts on saddle accessories… Continue reading
Randomising my bozoness
A quick update on what’s been happening recently… Continue reading
Talking s**t!
Effigy required
Does anyone out there have a doll or model of EPO-lord Armstrong? If I’m going to the Netherlands to charge at windmills, I’ll need a lance to tie to my bike. Yes, the sense of humour is back! Continue reading
Spin cycle
(I was going to call this post fricassee of dead dog after the previous post’s title and a superb piece of invective but it just doesn’t fit!)
I’be spun three times this week! That’s back to the ancien régime. Continue reading
FODMAP fricassée
Firstly, I’m much better than I have been. I’m by no means out of the woods but there is very strong light at the end of the kennel. (Thank you Nick Harper!) I’m to be treated as if I have small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), along with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). (I wish I’d recorded the conversation with the GI specialist – then I might recall the link between these two conditions.) Continue reading
Recycled!
What Elly said! And here’s the cyclemeter map. I’m quite pleased that before this recycling trip I cycled to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and back (about five miles each way) and felt reasonably capable on the slope up to Little France. (‘Reasonably capable’ here means staying out of granny gear!)
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Interstellar Overgrowth
More whinging about my guts, and some good things… No apologies to anyone for perverting song titles in this post. Continue reading
An update
A modicum of grossness and an amount of whining follows…
It’s taken quite a while to write this post – while my desk chair is more comfortable than the sofa, it’s not comfortable to be at for more than an hour or so.