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Me and the lady cycled around Holland in September, clocking about 100km per day for 7 days. It was excellent and I fully recommend it to anyone. Stayed mainly in cycle friendly B&Bs which had prices capped at 17euro per night and kept our bikes safe etc.
Amsterdam to the ferry at Hoek is a nice ride, not too far at all depending on the route you take and you can get some nice coastal paths and dunes etc going that way. It's a fantastic place to cycle really, motorists are way better and share the road where required without feeling the need to lean on their horn or shout and you can pretty much navigate without a map as the cycle routes are pretty well signposted between towns.
It's so true about the wind though, when it's in your face it can get you down. We cycled across a 32km dyke that goes over the sea where it's inland and the wind was in our faces the whole way. The girlfriend nearly had a sense of humour failure but it was averted by me making sure we had plenty of apple pie and cream at the half way refuge.