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Stayed for a week in Zeeland in the past month in a Landal just north of Zirkzee. Was a very fun holiday, and very beautiful. Not going to bang on about the elevation but I will say my back hurt a bit from not gettting out of the saddle at all.
Zeeland was mad pretty but a lot more agricultural than I thought, and hardly any trees. Lots of little bun runs and shenanigans on a rented ecargo but did bring the fixie for an actual ride or two. Did a areat loop though, we started in Schouwen-Duivland and went south through Zirkzee and across the Zeeland Bridge to Noord-Beveland which was fun as we had a tailwind. Good fields around here but felt really remote. I fucked up at this bit as we should have ridden across the N256 but I thought I saw a tiny bridge in the middle - this turned out to be ferry so we had to stop for a coffee and a sandwich to wait for the hourly boat. Was actually really lovely as I'm usually a no-faff kind of guy. Then east to Middelburg which was a cool city, smaller and cleaner than I thought it would be. Stopped for fried fish on a bridge in the heat. North of Middelburg we linked into some serious cycling infrastructure, there were like a jillion e-cycle tourists on this section north, was pretty mad. Is this like a known spot to come and bike around? Anyway we got to the Oosterscheldekering which was an amazing piece of engineering. Had a northerly wind on the return leg though so it was pretty fucking brutal over the bridge and for the next 25 miles. Hugely satisfying though to work against it, especially for spinning so easily on the way out.
Oh yeah one of sat in the ecargo while the other pedalled to Brouwershaven to a sports bar to watch some premier league. We got a lot of stares rolling in but was fun as hell to ecargo back drunk at night on the segregated infra.
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