strange dutch people…..

The ride from Breda to Rotterdam was one of the more interesting we have done. As we left Breda there was a lot of unexplained stuff on the GPS such as river crossings and routs that needed to be taken.

Go Team

We set off and had a very scenic ride; it was cold but not raining and had some sun patches that were nice. We went through many small towns (it was the southern end of the Netherlands) and then went far into the country side.

more good weather…….awsome

We asked in one of the towns if there was a river crossing ahead as there was a blue line on the GPS which I hadn’t seen before. They said it was a ferry across the river (caal really) so we headed in that direction. The ferry was only 90c which was nice, and it cut about 1 hour of the alternate route time.

booyah….this just saved us 2 hours of riding

Once across the signes to Rotterdam got much clearer and we could follow them almost into the city (they disappeared a few times but it didn’t delay us for to long). The weather got a bit worse but what can you do. Once entering Rotterdam we headed for the Hostel ROOM (name of hostel), we had two nights there before we headed for Amsterdam so it should be a good chance to rest after the two days of riding.

downtown riders in rotterdam

photos are on Flickr.

]]> http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/location/breda/breda-to-rotterdam-and-hello-to-the-netherlands/feed/ 1 http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/location/antwerp/good-bye-belgium-you-wet-cold-bastard/ http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/location/antwerp/good-bye-belgium-you-wet-cold-bastard/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:50:41 +0000 Brodie McCulloch http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/?p=170 Today was a bad day, even though I had the flu I had a couple of beers last night, the problem is that the Belgium beers are about 2-3 times stronger than English or Aus beers. This in-turn led to an escalated night that ended late, real late.

The plan was to get up about 9-10 am, have breakfast and ride out, it was a shorter ride (50k or so) and we new it would be fine. Instead we came out of a deep sleep at 12 noon as the guys were cleaning our room for the next people, in the frantic dash to get out of there we threw everything into our bags and onto the bikes. To make things better a cold front had come in over night and after leaving our riding shoes outside for 2 days to dry the were saturated by the rain.

finally

We then went in circles around Antwerp for about 1.5 hours until we found our way out of town we headed towards Breda in the Netherlands.

thank you kind choc people

To cut the post short we rode in the rain all day, the best part was when we knocked on a chocolate factories door and asked for chocolate, they were nice and gave us some (so we got to visit a Belgium chocolate factory, tick that off the list).

YEAH NETHERLANDS

Another lucky thing was that Breda was a direct line from Antwerp and required very little navigation.

Why are we in France?

Riding in the rain did do wonders for my flu………

if you want to laugh at us riding in the rain you can see it all at flickr.