Bicycle: 40 km
Ferry: 100 m (?)
Riding time: 2:32 h
Total ascent: 48 m
Avg speed: 15.8 km/h
Max speed: 33.1 km/h
Ferry: 100 m (?)
Riding time: 2:32 h
Total ascent: 48 m
Avg speed: 15.8 km/h
Max speed: 33.1 km/h
Route: Leiden - Kagerplassen - Braassemermeer and back to Leiden
Weather: Sunny and quite warm, 25 C
Today the weather was really sunny and summerly warm. As always I got a quite late start from home. I actually got up quite early in the morning (before 9:00) as the cleaning lady was coming... but until I finally made it out of the house it was nearly 16:00 in the afternoon. I am really not good at getting started... once I am started however I really enjoy riding. So a big advantage of just being on a tour is that hotel rooms have a check out time... so at some moment I just NEED to leave... but being at home, there are so many other things, that in retrospect aren't really so interesting / urgent / necessary that just keep me there in my inertia.
However this Saturday I added to my list of excuses the heat. Actually when I finally left home, it was still quite warm, too warm for me to to make a long ride. So I first rode out just in the general direction of Kagerplasen, where I had seen in mid-May a nice area to have a picnic. And that's what I did, with my picnic blanket brought along together with some nice cherries I had bought on Leiden market earlier in the day, and also my Japanese book 1Q84. I had bought that book about 2 years ago, in my attempts to get reading Japanese. And while I remember reading the first chapter and understanding it quite well, I remember reading the second (about Tengo, the second main character) and not understanding anything. So I directly skipped the 2nd chapter and went to the third (again being of Aomame, the character of the 1st chapter) and again it was quite comprehensible. Well I only managed to read 4 pages... as I am very slow reading Japanese, but still. So it seems I understand better female assassins than male would-be-writer. What does this tell about myself, I wonder.
But most time on my blanket I spent surfing the internet, simply because I cannot concentrate long enough on reading a Japanese novel.
This was the view from my blanket in the grass while reading facing North...
Once it got cooler I finally set off to my cycling. And cycled following the knooppunt to the Braassemermeer. This is actually a very nice cycling way, with small cycling roads, all quite well asphalted and through the country side. Definitely something to repeat or extend on.
In Rijpwetering, a small village along the road I came by for the second time the De Vergulde Vos a restaurant that seems to be very inviting with its garden... but I did not stop there. That will need to wait for a future occasion but continued on knooppunt to knooppunt to the Braassermermeer.
I didn't really take any pictures, but it was actually quite a nice ride, and I think I will be repeating at least parts of it some day. Hopefully then also stopping at the Golden Fox.
Only a very small part of this ride is along a major (well, semi-major) road. Most parts are really through the countryside.
Oh yes, and I actually had a small ferry ride. I actually took the wrong street to get to my initial destination, ending up in an area, where there was no more any bridge to cross the water, but there was a very convenient ferry for cyclists.
Today the weather was really sunny and summerly warm. As always I got a quite late start from home. I actually got up quite early in the morning (before 9:00) as the cleaning lady was coming... but until I finally made it out of the house it was nearly 16:00 in the afternoon. I am really not good at getting started... once I am started however I really enjoy riding. So a big advantage of just being on a tour is that hotel rooms have a check out time... so at some moment I just NEED to leave... but being at home, there are so many other things, that in retrospect aren't really so interesting / urgent / necessary that just keep me there in my inertia.
However this Saturday I added to my list of excuses the heat. Actually when I finally left home, it was still quite warm, too warm for me to to make a long ride. So I first rode out just in the general direction of Kagerplasen, where I had seen in mid-May a nice area to have a picnic. And that's what I did, with my picnic blanket brought along together with some nice cherries I had bought on Leiden market earlier in the day, and also my Japanese book 1Q84. I had bought that book about 2 years ago, in my attempts to get reading Japanese. And while I remember reading the first chapter and understanding it quite well, I remember reading the second (about Tengo, the second main character) and not understanding anything. So I directly skipped the 2nd chapter and went to the third (again being of Aomame, the character of the 1st chapter) and again it was quite comprehensible. Well I only managed to read 4 pages... as I am very slow reading Japanese, but still. So it seems I understand better female assassins than male would-be-writer. What does this tell about myself, I wonder.
But most time on my blanket I spent surfing the internet, simply because I cannot concentrate long enough on reading a Japanese novel.
This was the view from my blanket in the grass while reading facing North...
and facing South:
Once it got cooler I finally set off to my cycling. And cycled following the knooppunt to the Braassemermeer. This is actually a very nice cycling way, with small cycling roads, all quite well asphalted and through the country side. Definitely something to repeat or extend on.
In Rijpwetering, a small village along the road I came by for the second time the De Vergulde Vos a restaurant that seems to be very inviting with its garden... but I did not stop there. That will need to wait for a future occasion but continued on knooppunt to knooppunt to the Braassermermeer.
I didn't really take any pictures, but it was actually quite a nice ride, and I think I will be repeating at least parts of it some day. Hopefully then also stopping at the Golden Fox.
Only a very small part of this ride is along a major (well, semi-major) road. Most parts are really through the countryside.
Oh yes, and I actually had a small ferry ride. I actually took the wrong street to get to my initial destination, ending up in an area, where there was no more any bridge to cross the water, but there was a very convenient ferry for cyclists.
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