An annual cycle

Day 15 – Dutch courage. 86km (1,406km to date)

Country 6: the end of the cycle is in sight, with only one full day’s cycling left before a dart to the North Sea

Lovely cycle along a disused railway – entering the Netherlands along the way

(And I learned that Holland is NOT the same as The Netherlands – casually used (even by the locals), Holland strictly refers to North Holland or South Holland – not to the entire country. Yet more signs of a disdain for history in my formative years!)

And a last image from Germany:

(I bet if I took a measuring tape, the distances between adjacent trees would be inch – sorry, millimetre – perfect?)

Canadian Connection

I took a slight detour to check out this memorial:

Over 3,500 Canadians buried here. Nothing more to be said – except how many more such memorials will we see after the Ukrainian war is ended? What a tragic waste?

From Straße to Straat – and lots more challenging pronunciations

Anyone need some coal?

A view from one of the dykes
Serious water level management – the highest point in The Netherlands is 55m above sea level, and the lowest 7m below sea level

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