We’ve now extended our stay here in Zierikzee to 5 nights…well, if it suits us, and there’s enough to see and do, why move on? We have another site booked at Delft, but that’s not till Thursday, and what better place to spend the interim.
It’s now time to spend a couple of days exploring the coast by bike. It appears we weren’t the only ones with this idea…but it’s a very civilised affair, everyone is very polite, and when, on the odd occasion, we encounter a road (i.e motorised vehicles) cyclists are still very much in charge.
Tour de Zeeland. The cycling was brilliant; dead flat and priority over all other traffic.
Our journey includes cycling over dikes and along the coast road, stopping for some photos – the area is a haven for birds- we spotted a few herons, and geese, even a family with their goslings, who we shooed off the path…some cattle dipping their hooves into the shallow waters inland, sheep sharing an area with geese (who muttered “mutton and foie gras” as we passed them? ).
The land is flat as far as the eye can see.
The Dutch are clearly very proud of this natural environment, and there are several noticeboards (with English translations, phew!) giving info about wildlife, and how the landscape/ seascape evolved. We can’t stop to read them all, we have places to go….Eventually, we decide we’d gone far enough, and (after a quick beer at a seafood restaurant) we started the return journey. Argghhh…..the wind was definitely against us this time….we battled it, then did a bit of “inland” cycling, on the wide cycleways alongside the N57 road. Then, back to the coast, and to Zierikzee, where a second beer was on promise. After a bit more people- watching in the bar, we headed back to camp….I was, by this time a bit “giggly”..I blame the heat!
Back at camp, it’s a bit breezy…woohoo!
Early showers tonight..apparently Andrew wants to watch something on TV ?????
We suffered a few hours of really stressful TV on Tuesday night. On Wednesdays, a ‘flea market’ is held in a field right next to the campsite so off we went to see what was up for grabs. Lots of vinyl..”ooh, I’ve got that one!”..toy collections, old hand tools, even a stall selling those hideous “reborn baby dolls” Oh, and we’d never seen so many manual coffee grinders in one place. We bought nothing. It was well worth €1.50 entrance fee, just for the atmosphere.
There were also loads of toys including the huge display of Thomas the Tank Engine models show in the adjacent photo.
