Episode 5 – Cycling from Belgium to Croatia

The day starts with a gumball machine that looks like it hasn’t worked since the Cold War. We put in twenty cents anyway. Out comes a plastic egg. Inside the egg: a ring. Wim drops to one knee like this was the plan all along. I say yes before he finishes the sentence. It’s not gold. It’s not silver. But it’s perfect, and it stays on.

We accidentally cycle straight through a hunters’ protest, complete with hunting horns and very serious trousers. A 75‑year‑old man on an e‑bike rescues us from the chaos and turns into a high‑speed city guide who talks faster than we can pedal.

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, we find an ice‑cream vending machine and decide that dessert is a perfectly acceptable lunch. Later, we ride on top of a dam, surrounded by flowers in colors that feel slightly excessive.

We end the day camping on a Rhine beach, shaded by olive trees, watching cargo ships slide past and one cruise ship that clearly took a wrong turn from the Nile.

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