Two days have flown by already, almost time to pack up and go to my family’s side of the world. Yesterday we cycled to Goes in very nice spring weather, strolled through the city and visited the market before buying most of the things we still needed for the bicycles, most importantly the Ortlieb panniers. We were most impressed with the excellent service, a far cry from the way we were treated back in SA.
For lunch bought some apples and raisins at the market and sat basking in the sun doing some people watching and listening to the churchbells ringing.
On our route back we cycled past the smallholding where the Dolf has retired to. I started my illustrious career with him forty years ago and of course we had to pay him a visit. His wife recognized us straight away, he needed a little bit of prompting and soon we were chatting like there had been no intervening years. Little did I know that he had taken on a new hobby and that is making wine and other dangerous beverages and of course we had to sample. Many glasses of wine later we said our goodbyes and the only lowlight of the day was Arsenal’s deserved loss to Barcelona later that evening.
Today we planned to explore Zuid Beveland but Ellie’s brother, Jan, had other ideas and he took us on a tour of all the islands now connected through the deltaplan, visiting the museum of the great 1953 floods, ingenious locks and sluices and the famous little ‘dorp’ of Yrseke, well know for its oysters and mussels, rounded off with a sumptuous supper with ‘witloof’, my favorite vegetable which is so hard to get in SA.
