After much promised quizzes and jollity on the party boat that is the Hull to Rotterdam ferry , we retired to bed at a civilised 11pm. Some to a standard and some to an upmarket cabin with minibar and a porthole! The following day started in a rush to breakfast on the ferry with my phone ( no signal) not registering the time as an hour ahead ! Needn’t have worried as my cycling buddies were later and there was plenty of time for a healthy fry-up!
The first bit of the route away from the ferry port did not bode well for the start of this adventure . Heavy rain ! We stopped after a short ferry hop ( Rozenburg- Massluis) for a coffee feeling a bit bedraggled and cold. Two minutes after resuming , the shout went up – puncture! Oh dear – one of my friends , Karen, had some bad luck . Saving some time trying to fix it ourselves , a cycle shop 1min away obliged !
Once in The Hague, we asked around for a lunch stop and a Turkish kebab place came up trumps .
View from Rozenburg to Massluis ferry
Weather improved in afternoon as we wended our way through the
Hague finally emerging into the coastal dunes . That made for some considerable relief ! After an ice cream stop , we arrived at Nordwijk , our first stage and dispersed to our different accommodation . Our first round of drinks on Sat evening apparently free due to an “ admin” error !
Round the Netherlands by bike 
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