Dordrecht

The story so far . . .

. . . only it’s the same old story, hence no entries. Cycling Brough to Hull, a ride to Hedon, overnight ferry to Europoort and ride to Rotterdam. Weather, cycling, hotels – all as nice as usual. We caught the waterbus to Dordrecht, and tomorrow we catch the train to Nijmegen.

Actually, there’s almost a story there. I bought the tickets at Rotterdam Centraal today rather than tackle the ticket machines at unstaffed Dordrecht station. I explained what I wanted – hoping that a face-to-face transaction would avoid the pitfalls of trying to interact with a machine. It all went smoothly until the tickets were handed over . . . and I realised that the bicycle tickets were for the wrong day. Unlike a machine, though, the human quickly remedied that.

Europoort to Schoonhoven

A moment of sheer euphoria as we reached the wide, continuous cycle path right outside the ferry terminal. A promise of two weeks of stress-free cycling ahead of us . . . well, at least as far as the infrastructure goes.

A slightly different route this time to avoid the Ridderkerk-Krimpen aan de Lek ferry, but otherwise the same as previous years. Good to know I can still do it (although the strong tailwind part of the way helped enormously with cycling and mindset).