Day 3: Oude Bildtzijl-Lauwersoog

Today, I got my breakfast delivered to my door by my bed and breakfast host. And how lucky I was because I had a soft bread roll and hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles) in my breakfast basket, together with a croissant, a yoghurt, some fruit, coffee and orange juice. With that kind of fuel, I started my day with all energy tanks filled to the top.

I continued along the coast further east today. For most of the time, I was directly behind the dyke again, surrounded by my fluffy friends, the sheep. What I don’t understand is why they have to go to the toilet on my skating lanes when there is so much green grass around, but I assume I’m in their territory and have to play by their rules.

The asphalt today was (like every day almost) of varying quality. Some places, there was a lot of gravel on the roads, in some places only two small stripes were cleared by car wheels and better to skate on. And in the villages, you always have the red brick paved roads which are no fun to skate on. But for most of the time, I had good road conditions and, as a bonus today, consistent tailwind.

Since I in addition had “only” around forty kilometres to cover today, I reached my destination today already at lunchtime. Fortunately, I could also check in early, took a shower and then headed for some fish and chips.

Tomorrow will probably be a longer day again. Originally, I was planning to skate two more days in the Netherlands before reaching Germany. Now, it looks like there could be a bit of rain on Wednesday. So I might go for a longer stage tomorrow and enjoy a rest/rain day on Wednesday instead. I can still decide tomorrow though because my hotel bookings are flexible.