Days One and Two - There's No Limit
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the next in my somewhat infrequent series of travel blogs. This time I am on a trip to the Netherlands to do some cycling. Day one started at home with the family in Northampton and a trip out to a cafe for breakfast, nothing noteworthy about that except the breakfast venue was also the place where Jeyes fluid was invented so we knew that that if anyone dropped a sausage the 5 second rule could easily be extended to 10. Leaving a tearful family behind I set off for Cambourne to meet my usual cycling companions to set off for Holland and the Eleven Cities cycle tour . For those that could not be bothered to click on the link, the eleven cities is an annual event which has run since 1912. The event sees up to 15,000 cyclists ride 235km around 11 cities in the North West of Holland. This year the Bullrush Bike Club (and me) would be among their number. Following a pasta dinner prepared by Dan we met the others...