Bicycle: 29 km
Riding time: 1:31 h
Total ascent: 49 m
Avg speed: 19.1km/h
Max speed: 33.5 km/h
Route: Leiden - Kaagersee - Leiden
Weather: Sunny and nicely warm, 18 C
After two days without riding, I had time again tonight to have a nice ride around Leiden. This time I nearly repeated a ride I had already done in mid-May, once around the Kaagersee. Many parts of this ride I had already done several times before, so I didn't need to stop a lot to get oriented. This probably contributed to the "high" average speed of 19 km. I think probably the highest average so far riding in the Netherlands.
A part of the ride is on a windmill roundtrip, which I still haven't found detailed information on (probably need to buy some book...), well, there are a lot of windmills around:
The Kaagersee is a region dominated by water and without a lot of bridges, so this farmer needs to bring his big tractor back home on a very small ferry that is totally occupied with his tractor, "swimming" back to his home, which obviously is a windmill:
The way back from Kaagersee isn't specially nice as it follows for a long part a highway. But I didn't want to try to ride through Sassenheim, as I thought that it might be typical paved (i.e. bumpy) village roads. But the way towards the lake is always nice.
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