Wednesday, 15 September 2010 Today was kind of easy, or so we thought, with first following the LF5 and then where it meets the LF51 just follow LF51 into Antwerp. The first part was through forest again and, with the recent rains, lots of mushrooms around: The paths were muddy in places but generally very […]

Tuesday 14 September 2010 Our tired bicycles resting after everything we put them through. This morning we go and explore Turnhout, quite windy and chilly. We find the tourism office without problem but we might as well skipped them as they are not very helpful. I manage to pry a folder with a walkabout in

Monday, 13 September 2010 Woke up to thick mist, fortunately not in a hurry so could enjoy the hut and its surroundings a bit more, including this statue of a milkmaid. Once the mist had lifted a little we set off and once we found ourselves on the LF5 again cycled through a very nice

Sunday, 12 September 2010 Not much to say about today except that it rained almost non-stop. Just as well that the route that we had to follow wasn’t all that scenic, basically follow the shortest gps-route between hut 116 and 206 from village to village. Exactly 100km of ribbon development and just as well that

Saturday, 11 September 2010 What a pleasure to be woken up by the birds in the forest of “Landgoed Roesendael’. From our bed we look straight onto the trees and the greenery, almost tempting to take the day off and just relax. Instead we cycle the whole seven kilometers into the town of Mechelen to

Friday, 10 September 2010 Weather report in my daily email newsletter sounded encouraging so we set off with high hopes for a dry day. From looking at our very un-detailed maps we imagined we could pick up the LF5 cycle path quite easily and so it was. LF5 is an acronym for ‘landelijke fietspad number

Thursday, 09 September 2010 After rearranging the furniture in the hut so we could fashion a double bed we expected a night of sound sleep. Nothing further from the truth, first of all we initially had the heater on to dry our wet clothes which made the hut into a sauna, secondly the rain came

Wednesday, September 08, 2010 It is with a little trepidation that we  set off on our last cycle tour of our current holiday as the weather report does not look very promising. Maybe we are getting soft or maybe a little sensible as we have booked a series of trekkerhuts for our week-long exploration of

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 Start of our three week cycle trip through south-east England and, most importantly, our visit to Jackie in London. We didn’t have much choice when booking the ferry from Hoek Van Holland at this late stage so we had to take the afternoon trip. This made it difficult to reach in

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 to Monday, 26 July 2010 Recovery time, planning time, booking time and in the meantime get those cycling legs going again for our next adventure. In the meantime there was also a reunion of the De Baar family, the first time in 34 years the three siblings were together. Of course