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 4: Eindhoven – Breda
Bike counter settings:
| begin: | 292km |
| end: | 362km |
| cumulative avg: | 18.6km/hr |
| route: | AquaBest, wilhelminakanaal (via Tilburg), Oosterhout, Breda. |
In Eindhoven, I took most of the day off — my bike wasn’t ready till 4 o’clock anyway. I went to an outdoor shop and got myself another quick-dry shirt for biking, and a new vest to replace the vest I had forgotten to bring (intended to bring 2 vests: one for biking, one for the evening. Ended up bringing just one :s).
My new super-duper vest repels water, is windproof, and should be warm! Which means that till now, I have had zero opportunity to wear it — way too hot :)
At four I picked up my bike, and left for Breda and Bobby. The route was fairly easy: Go to Aquabest, get to the channel, bike on till you turn left and end up near Bobby. Just after passing through Tilburg, the route passed a store and I stopped to pick up a little something for my host: a small bonsai tree. I had to fiddle with the luggage a bit, moving some stuff to the other bike bag, but in the end, it all fit.
Or so I thought.
Imagine my surprise when I got to Bobby and found only one shoe in my bike bags. It was way hilarious, and annoying at the same time.
Nevertheless, it was a good day. I arrived at 8, we had dinner and then went to town. When we got back, we were still chatting, which sort of continued till 3 in the morning. Fun, but since I hadn’t slept much, that was pushing it a bit. Moreover, somewhere in the evening, Bob and myself were invited to a sailing trip the next day. It sounded great, but it involved leaving at 8am…
We managed to be more or less ready to go at 8 am, and were picked up quarter to nine. :s.
The day was great! Sjammy and kwotte are really nice guys, and it was fantastic to be on a yacht once again. In the evening, we had dinner somewhere in town, and sort of stayed till 2am :)
All in all, a fantastic rest day!