It was great to have a rare lazy day. The breakfast room here at the Bicycle Hotel doesn’t open until 8am. Apart from hanging about in our tiny room, there is nowhere else to escape to in this compact Hotel.
It was also good to be able to linger over breakfast. Our room is relatively cold. The breakfast room, which doubles as a sitting room, computer room and administration area for the Hotel, is much warmer so we were happy to not rush breakfast, but also to catch up on emails and also read.
There was no plan for the day. We felt that we had seen all we needed to see of Amsterdam, and were happy doing nothing except repacking bags and being ready for Julie’s early departure for the airport before dawn tomorrow, and my big day for the trip to Rotterdam.
The temperature outside was barely above zero. Our weather ‘app’ was telling us that tomorrow would be possibly Minus 2 warming to maybe 3C by the afternoon. It could be an interesting trip to Rotterdam.
I used some idle time to look closely at the map, to sort the best way to get from Amsterdam to Rotterdam. It seems twice the distance on the map to the distance we cycled from Leiden, which was 60k. By shaving a few corners, I am hoping it will be 90-95k at best, but which is nevertheless a solid day considering the bike load, the stops for photos and coffee, and some allowance for getting lost and/or working out the signs along the way.
My main worry though is negotiating the major built-up area around Rotterdam. The Hotel is in the dockland area, but which looks very complicated on the map.
We enjoyed a final dinner with our man at the lovely ‘take-away’ around the corner. It is actually a very good dinner for relatively little price. He seems to be quite impressed that we would choose his homestyle cooking rather than a classier restaurant, of which there are plenty around.
So not much action today. We enjoyed our lazy day, feeling a little saddened knowing we part company tomorrow morning, and I will be a lone cyclist once again heading off into the cold morning all on my own.
From our quaint, cool room on the 2nd floor of the Bicycle Hotel on Van Ostadastraat, we send our love
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