Cycling in the Netherlands and Belgium – Day 3

My mid-tour ‘Transit Day’ – hopping on a train back into the Netherlands and a few miles cycling into Haarlem, nicely setting up the last couple of days’ cycling down the Dutch coastline.

Once again the cycleways – straight out of Schiphol airport – were unbelievably good!

Thanks again for watching and happy cycling, folks!

[Music] i’ll put my life in a bottle Something to guide your way [Music] Even if you’re too scared to follow [Music] there’s a light in each new day [Music] If the moon gives up rising the sun stops it shining you know you’ll have a land to hold As we wait on the timing together we’re finding there’s more than one way to go [Music] Now more than any other city I can recall at the present time Antworp is really a place where if you look up you just see how beautiful the the city is You know there’s the usual kind of cafes and shops selling the the typical kind of homogeneous crap that you get everywhere in every big city in the world Uh but some of the buildings just you know above the first floor are absolutely stunning And then you get these places here I must have seen this square on a dozen YouTube videos over the years of people traveling through Europe And it’s very surreal to be right in the middle of it now and the big cathedral It’s a very gaudy uh clock face they’ve put in it though I must say Far be it for me to criticize the entrop town council but could have gone with a slightly better clock face But yeah look at these amazing buildings just sort of intricate stonework and I don’t know all sorts of crests and emblems and shields on the buildings that you probably can’t see Well that was a very enjoyable half an hour just tootling around the city Like 3 miles an hour and uh we’re just arriving at the Grand Central Train Station Yesterday I went in the the entrance just here I’m kind of guessing the front is around this way It’s absolutely stunning It’s um I mean I don’t know what the history behind it is but it beggars belief that they made that into a train station See if I can get it in one shot behind me Something like that So that’s the outside but wait till you see the inside Heat [Music] Heat I know you’re tired of this [Music] One up and three You’re chasing after your heart knows where to go If the moon gives up rising the sun stops it shining We know you’ll have a land to hold As we wait on the timing together we find it There’s more than one way to go [Music] Okay made it to Skibal and just going to leave the airport Hopefully pick up a cycle way out west towards Holland Well folks talk about leaving an airport in style I uh just walked out of the terminal building cross the road and just picked up immediately this amazing little cycle line which uh hopefully will take me uh north and then pick up a road for about 10 miles heading west And destination for this evening is uh Harlem I’m not quite sure whether it’s a big town or it’s a city in its own right So we just got airplanes taxiing ahead It’s a bit noisy I’ve never uh cycled away from a UK airport but be very surprised if they have this kind of infrastructure in place So yeah as I was saying the destination for today is Harlem and then from tomorrow I kick start two days just meandering down the coast And uh how cool is this bicycle tunnel under the runway Yeah I’m just blown away I I’m just continually blown away by the cycling infrastructure in this country It’s just a little glimpse of how it should be [Music] Heat [Music] Heat [Music] [Music] Heat Heat [Music] there [Music] Well this place has got very cool vibes [Music] and tonight’s hotel Easy check in as they always are And um yeah here’s today’s room Hotel number three Bit of an orangey theme Lots of I’m going to have something orangey for uh for dinner But yeah going to um just chill out cool down a little bit It’s another hot one today and um not a lot of cycling Probably did I don’t know 15 miles something like that Dead easy day Uh but it’s got me to the perfect spot for two days just tracking the coastline south So really looking forward to uh the next bit of riding over the next couple of days There is a um a UN summit at uh the Hague which is my destination for tomorrow Uh now it’s not until next week but um quite a few people I’ve been chatting to last couple of days have said that they they start locking things down early So it might be that certain streets are closed or certain places you can’t get to Uh it doesn’t really bother me cuz I’m not really doing massive touristy stuff but uh yeah it be interesting just to see uh even though it’s not for a good few days just how much it’s it’s starting to lock down uh this weekend Um but yeah anyway blathering Just going to uh chill out cool down and then we’ll pop out and uh get something to eat And uh yeah what is this day three I suppose Easy day Not a lot of cycling but uh in the bag And uh yeah Harlem looks stunning Looking forward to having a little mooch around later on So yeah I’ll uh catch up with you in a wee while [Music] [Music] Heat