Dit zijn de afstanden die er per dag gefietst zijn. Dag 4 was de rustdag.Dag 5 en 6 waren de dagen dat we rond hebben gereden in de Veluwe zonder bagage.
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Veluwe - Day 1 : The warming up
I (Bart) gathered all my gear and cycled to Koen at 8:45. Bram was already there. Of course Koen's mom told (forced?) me to eat something, I must be starved so soon after breakfast. Koen's brother Stijn gave me Liga cookies, but more about those later. Koen hadn't packed anything yet, all his stuff was spread out over the kitchen floor. We had planned to leave at 9 but he didn't even had panniers.
Koen and his mom left to visit the bicycle store, while Bram and I waited. At 9:45 they were finally done and almost ready to go, Koen only needed to attached the tent to his bike. In some mysterious way he had lost one of the bungee cords necessary to do this. Fortunately we found another one and, after Koen's mom forced us all to take some fruit, we were finally ready to leave.
After departing an hour later than planned the first 40 km of the trip went well and we decided to have lunch. Between the three of us we ate an entire bread. We continued cycling along a train track and a marshy area. The road was perfectly straight and about 6 km long. At the end was a village where we bought more bread for dinner and breakfast for the next day. Bram and I waited outside while Koen went to a bakery. Several girls came up to us to talk. hey asked if we smoked and if we wanted to buy them cigarettes. Needless to say we didn't. When Koen left the store the girls harassed him, but fortunately he restrained himself. We continued cycling and after 60 km arrived at the "Strawberry land" amusement park.
I don't know what it was about, but it seemed fun. We continued cycling via Tienray, Wanssum and Meerlo and started looking forward to a break. Fortunately, we came across a map that showed a nearby village with a campsite. After cycling for another 30 minutes we found it. This day it seemed difficult to find a campsite, but compared to the following days it had actually been really easy. Although the 80 km we had cycled was 5 km more than planned, we still didn't feel very tired.
In the front is Bram's tent. We were put on a random piece of grass that was left after making a parkinglot.
In the rain, we started cooking sausages and soup with our friend Stefan's pans and a disposable barbecue. Afterwards we had enough time and energy left to visit the local bar. They sold Hertog Jan beer in a beautiful glass. Before going to sleep we played cards in the playground.
This was today's route. We didn't make too many detours and crossed many natural areas and dirt roads.
Distance cycled: 80 km