I woke to the sun for a change, in fact it looked like it was going to be a nice day. I had managed to dry my shoes out a little courtesy of toilet paper from the campsite toilets.
I was a little worried that I was limited to certain roads in Holland. My worries were confirmed when I hit my first no cycling sign. In fact you can only cycle on cycle paths in Holland. I stopped at a tourist information to ask how I could get to my destination. The struggle but plotted me a new route. One town I couldn’t reach because they were all national roads or motorways. What I don’t get is the roads I can’t cycle on are only single carriageway. I’ve figured out now that anything starting in A or N I can’t touch, but just to make things even more difficult, some N roads do have a cycle path running alongside.
I pieced together a route and finally managed to work my way through lots of little villages and get to Kampen. Holland certainly is as flat as I’d heard and the little villages are quite pretty with their cobbled roads.
Tomorrow I want to get to Rotterdam. Another concerned face from the staff at the campsite. I’ve looked and it is impossible to get there without going on an N road, but who knows which ones have cycle paths or not. This is turning out to be a bit of a nightmare where planning is concerned, who knows where I’ll end up tomorrow.