I’m on a biking holiday — first time I’ve done such a thing. Here’s a short summary of what’s happened so far:
Day 2: Bovigny – Maastricht
Bike counter settings:
| begin: | 90km |
| end: | 198km |
| cumulative avg: | 17.6km/hr |
| route: | Vielsalm, Trois-Ponts, Stoumont, Sougne, Louveigne, Olne, Soumange, Barchon, Dalhem, Vise, Mariadorp |
The long day. This day, I was going to bike from (basically) the northern border of Luxembourg to the southern border of the Netherlands. Over the Ardennes. About 100km — which is quite a bit for me on flat terrain. I had been worried, especially after the headache of the previous evening. Luckily, it had vanished in the morning, and a healthy breakfast (and an early checkout time) put me on my way around 10am. It actually went quite well. The uphills were a struggle, of course, but the roads I had picked were not too heavy with traffic, and it was a pleasant day to be biking. Crossing the border under my own power was kind of magical: I had actually biked (at that point: close to) a hundred kms to enter NL! Again, in Maastricht, I missed the hotel in the beginning, and it took me a bit to find it.
The hotel was a sauna. Again, it had been a hot day. The hotel did not have any air conditioning, and the windows in the rooms could hardly be opened. Where outside, a gently breeze brought some relief and made it warm, yet bearably, inside, absent the breeze, oof…
Not a good night’s sleep, but the breakfast was good, and then I was ready to be on my way again!