Wind is not my friend…

Goed Morning everyone .. There is hope (yet) for today, on Monday, as it is NOT raining! 🫣 ( at the moment)…Perhaps we will only have to deal with wind ( as usual) and not the two part combo.

It is expected to be a longer ride as we leave here from Lemmer on to other places!

Our tour has been disrupted by a few people with “colds”, and one did have covid, so we lost a guide (!) who will be replaced today with the wife of the bicycle rentals we have here on the barge, who is from Wervershoof. She used to guide many years ago, so we know she is “experienced”. It WILL be fun!

Now some photos!

Princess Margriet Kanaal ..Even from the inside of the cabin it’s wet…

Squeegee the tables dry! Then a small brush is used for the chairs. In Sleat.

Statue in Sleat..No information, but the artists are Lucy and Jorge Orta.

Slide into the western side of the dyke, in Balk.

How fun! Craft table in coffee stop restaurant. For the kids to keep them entertained while the older folks eat and dine!

And.. puzzles, games, and toys, too. So ingenious!

This is the restaurant, if anyone wants to bike there to entertain the family…

Eating a bit indoors as it was pouring rain during the coffee stop.

BALK! NOT a baseball term..It is a piece ( shape) of wood here in the Netherlands..

Now that’s what I call a slide! In the lunch stop park of De Hege Gerzen.

Founder information of the park, name changed to De Hege Gerzen, from Jan Luinenburg.

I am going for a “swim”…Gotta get in those laps! In the park.

This is a photo of the world’s largest steam powered water pump plant that is still operating! On the bridge overlooking the IJssel and connecting canals.

Metal sign for a bicycle pump, in Lemmer.

Today's ride: 48 miles (77 km)
Total: 940 miles (1,513 km)

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