Bicycling The Netherlands, Day 2: Middelburg To Zierikzee (October 2, 2023) North Sea and Seawalls

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In June of 2020, we were all set to do a bicycle tour of the Loire Valley to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, COVID hit and we had to cancel and reschedule for September of 2021 but COVID had made a strong resurgence and we rescheduled for September of 2022. I broke my collarbone at the beginning of August and we could not bicycle but did enjoy the Alsace and Burgundy regions of France (videos: • France ). We decided to skip the Loire Valley and try a ride in the bicycling mecca of the Netherlands. Since we had a sizable credit with Discover France we booked our trip through them and their partner Tulip Cycling.
Over five days of riding we went from Bruges Belgium to Leiden Netherlands enjoying the wonderful bicycling infrastructure and scenery of the Netherlands. So many canals, windmills, beautiful towns and countryside. Another beautiful day awaited us with 75F temperatures for our second day of riding from Middelburg to Zierikzee. A good chunk of our ride was along the North Sea and we crossed two sea walls. I had been looking forward to bicycling across the walls and they were amazing, quite the feat of engineering. With such another great day, we say thousands of people out bicycling making us wonder if it was a public holiday, but I could not find any such holiday on October 2 in the Netherlands.
Ride with GPS:
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Комментарии : 15

@keessturm2804 5 месяцев назад

Nice ride, i know this route very well, in from Middelburg and its part of my favorite route on my sports bike. Good weather in fall is luxury so every body is outside enjoying it! 😄

@RichardMooreAndJulieMoore 5 месяцев назад

You are blessed to have that as a regular ride. We really lucked out on having exceptional fall weather. Thanks for watching!

@rmyikzelf5604 7 месяцев назад

That 'noon whistle' is a nation-wide test of air alarm systems taking place every first monday of the month at noon.

@RichardMooreAndJulieMoore 7 месяцев назад

Very similar to here in Minnesota, the first Wednesday of the month they test the tornado sirens. Thanks for watching and letting us know about the siren!

@johansilwouden3403 4 месяца назад

I think the holiday you were referring to was a German one! On the 3rd of October, the Germans celebrate the "Tag der deutschen Einheit", the celebration of the reunification on the 3rd October of 1990, one year after the fall of the Berlin wall. Many Germans just take a few days of and celebrate it in the Netherlands!😂 So you probably saw a lot of German tourists!

@RichardMooreAndJulieMoore 4 месяца назад

That would make sense. Now that I think about it we encountered many German Tourists enjoying the same holiday last year in the Alsace. Thanks for watching!

@protectorh9167 7 месяцев назад

Nice to see a bikers video from our province Zeeland, don't see them often on youtube and I only drive with my motorcycle once in a few years overthere but looking at your video I am happy to go on my pushbike and explore that part of the Netherlands, thank you.

@RichardMooreAndJulieMoore 7 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it. Zeeland was definitely a joy to bicycle through and the cities were very nice. Thanks for watching!

@jeffreycollins9013 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the videos! I'm planning a similar ride from Bruges to Amsterdam over 6 days. Would you be willing to share the map/route you took?

@RichardMooreAndJulieMoore 7 месяцев назад

You are welcome. I hope you are able to ride in the Netherlands, it is an amazing experience. In the description of each video is our Ride with GPS tracking information for the day. You should be able to download a GPX file and import it into whichever app you use for guidance. Thanks for watching!

@QnA22 6 месяцев назад

Very interesting and beautiful ride. I'm surprised the wind isn't stronger that near to the sea.

@RichardMooreAndJulieMoore 6 месяцев назад

We were also surprised but enjoyed our two days of light winds. We experienced the full force of the wind with rain on day three! Thanks for watching!