Last week I completed the LF Zuiderzeeroute, a very challenging cycle tour in the north of the Netherlands.
By way of some background to this trip, please refer to the following stories:
Last Saturday, 6th July, I returned to Enkhuizen by train, with a view to staying overnight before resuming the route on Sunday morning.
There is a direct Intercity train route from Heerlen to Enkhuizen, usually with no changes.
However, on this particular day engineering works commenced on that line, with a replacement bus service between Eindhoven and Boxtel.
The bus service does not carry cycles so I simply cycled the 23 km to reconnect with the train service.
Once in Enkhuizen I checked into my accommodation, looking forwards to an early start to my tour on Sunday morning.
Over the following 6 days I cycled over 630 km and took 435 photographs.
Returning home on Friday afternoon, after a day of exceptionally heavy rain, was very satisfying, especially as it had been such a long time in the planning.
The featured image is of a traditional boatyard in Workum, Friesland.
The gallery of photographs includes the first stage of the tour, completed in March this year.
The routes for each day can be found here.
