{"id":19171,"date":"2018-01-12T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/?p=19171"},"modified":"2018-01-12T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:00:34","slug":"day-287-weeze-to-lievelde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/day-287-weeze-to-lievelde\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 287 – Weeze to Lievelde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 287                                                  2nd May
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57miles (Weeze to Lievelde) Average speed 11.4 mph Top speed 23 mph
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Another good day but a very wet one. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was up at 7 after the church bells went crazy at 6. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I said goodbye to my camping buddy from Kaiserslautem and said I might meet him in Sweden. I found a radiator to dry my clothes and shoes, packed and had a lovely brekkie at Kev’s. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Breakfast at Kevin’s bar<\/p><\/div>\n

I paid the bill and he let me off the two beers I hadn’t paid for last night. <\/span><\/span>Then I got 2 miles down the road only to realise I had the key to the gate in my pocket. So back I went, but he’d gone out, so I left the key on the door and started out again in the rain. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It was a good ride on a reasonably good path, apart from the tree roots, but very wet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I had lunch by a lake as the sun shone for 10 minutes. then it was a downpour which didn’t stop and still hasn’t. I went across the Rhone before getting to Rees on a very impressive bridge but the cycle path signs were not best. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Impressive bridge<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I found my way back into Holland where things turned against me. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The road to Groenlo was closed and after going through a maze of industrial sites, I found myself heading in the wrong direction, but with no sin (Ermintrude ; I think that should say sun, but I liked that thought)<\/em><\/strong> it was hard to tell which way was north. Then the phone battery died and left me with no alternative but to calm down, relax and recharge the battery.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cold and wet<\/p><\/div>\n

Recharging the battery gave me time to calm down as I was quite frustrated by now and very cold, wet and hungry. Eventually I found a campsite and had a lovely hot shower and went to the Barbier pub for a drink of Grolsch; <\/span><\/span>that helped. Across the road was the loco bar\/restaurant where I fuelled up on spicy burger and fries before heading back to the pub for darts and watching billiards.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Spicy burger and fries beside a glowing fire – warm and comfortable<\/p><\/div>\n

I ordered a beer to carry out and the very nice barman let me have that one on the house, after he’d shown me how the bar won all its trophies. A very nice man who, incredibly, apologised for his Queen’s English.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Camping Beusink 9\u20ac but no change so I gave him 10<\/p>\n

I’m the only one here with footy pitches, basketball,volleyball and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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