Easy ride, past the outskirts of Rotterdam, one of the busiest ports in the world.
We've booked our tickets to Harwich on the Stena Line ferry leaving tomrrow at 14.30, arriving 20.00. We have to exit Holland here, in order to get our passports stamped. We were warned when we arrived in Amsterdam that we were not allowed to stay in Holland for more than three months, or we would risk be banned from the Shengen Agreement countries (most of Europe) for three years. The problem is that if you leave Holland by bike into say, Denmark, you don't even have a border post to record the momentous occasion. So even though you may have left the country, you can't prove it.
We see a lot of very well preserved old cars in Holland.
We finally got to taste Kibbling today - battered blue cod. Everywhere you go in Holland you see little food huts selling kibbling, always with a queue of people buying. It is most delicious.
We had the remarkable luck to be at the Hoek of Holland on the one day of the every year that they close the giant gates of the canel to test them. It was a real carnival day for all concerned and so interesting.
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