Day 2: Hippolytushoef-Oude Bildtzijl (50 km)

After a quick breakfast topped off with some vla, I left at quarter to nine so that I had no stress to catch the bus over the Afsluitdijk which left at half past nine. The bus ride over the dyke which is currently closed for cyclists (and skaters), took about twenty minutes.

On the other side, I continued skating towards Harlingen which had a nice harbour. I was tempted to take a coffee stop there, but since it’s Sunday, a lot of places seemed closed and I felt like I hadn’t earned a proper break yet, so in continued. Skating out of town, I must have taken a wrong turn because I had to follow a road for two-hundred metres which was not allowed for cyclists, to get back to a bicycle lane. There wasn’t much traffic at all, but I got two angry honks nevertheless.

From there I followed a road a couple of kilometres away from the coast, until I took a left swing again close to Firdgum to get back to the dyke.

From here I followed the dyke for some kilometres, took a water and chocolate break among some sheep, and finally reached the Oudebildtdijk which led me all the way on immaculate asphalt with a gentle breeze from behind to my destination today, which is Oude Bildtzijl.

There is supposed to be a thunderstorm tonight. And according to the forecast, temperatures tomorrow should be around twenty degrees only as opposed to thirty the last two days.