Another excellent day of riding with a little over 72 miles to Groningen, a nice University City out of the usual touristic route where our friends Esther and Niko live. If it was not for the overpasses and the dikes it would have been a perfectly flat route. Coming out of Germany, there were bike paths all the way, we stopped in a few places for pictures, like Papenburg, a small town with canals and replicas of old ships. Rheden, a border town where we had lunch and had a hard time getting a low fat meal...even the salad is covered by creamy dressing, cheese and some bright orange yolk, I was scared to eat (I will have to postpone working on lowering my cholesterol until I come back home). The garmin GPS, was amazing in bringing us right to the door our our friends country home through streets and roads that had bicycle designated paths. Amazing scenery with fields of wheat, corn, cows, sheep, horses and ponies feeding on the grass and canals with children fishing or people on boats and canoes.
After cleaning up and starting laundry we went off to town with Niko to dinner to a nice restaurant in the old part of town while Esther was at work. We finished the evening with a delicious chamomile tea and great conversation.
We are staying one more day in Groningen exploring the surrounding areas, I want to go to the "tea" museum and some older towns closer to the coast.
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