{"id":19567,"date":"2018-02-09T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/?p=19567"},"modified":"2018-02-09T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T10:23:58","slug":"day-293-groningen-to-weener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/day-293-groningen-to-weener\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 293 – Groningen to Weener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 293                                                  8th May
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47miles (Groningen to Weener) Average speed 10.9 mph Top Speed 18 mph<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A good day if a little cold and windy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After four days of partying in Groningen it is time to hit the road again. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A big thanks to Guy for organising a tour of Groningen by bike and securing tickets to the footy and even feeding me with some Dutch delicacies. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was up at 9 and had brekkie of Camembert sarnie with two teas, showered and packed and waited for the rain to stop. After a few emails and FB updates it was a challenge to follow the cycle paths east out of town, but I soon made it and followed a cycle path along the canal. Once out of the city I was rewarded by seeing lots of wildlife including two deer in the fields, a heron, birds of prey and frogs croaking in the dykes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Two deer in a field by the cycle path<\/p><\/div>\n

I was very tempted by a campsite offering a sauna after only 10 miles but hopefully I’ll find plenty in Sweden. I stopped off for a sausage roll and free coffees in Spar and continued on before stopping for lunch, today by a lake for bathing with a nice beach where a red admiral joined me. It was a lovely ride and reminded me of Canvey Island with marsh land and white cement paths.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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View from the cycle path<\/p><\/div>\n

Good countryside soon gave way to some very flash farmhouses as I got closer to Germany. I checked out the last campsite in Holland but I wasn’t impressed, so crossed the border and arrived here after visiting a couple of Aldis along the way to stock up for dinner. I tried a few places to get gas but no luck so it was handy to find I had a kitchen at the campsite to cook my bratwurst. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Marina beside the campsite<\/p><\/div>\n

The campsite is next to quite an impressive marina and it was good to look at the boats before cooking dinner. No wifi but it’s a good campsite and the second cheapest I’ve found lately, so I managed to stay on budget today after such an expensive few days celebrating my birthday. Still I did win another \u00a375 on ERNIE so that should cover some of it!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was sad to have missed the O’s last day in the league but I know we will be back because we have a fantastic fan base and they will not let our club die. I listened to it on orient player and the fans sang throughout a very tough last game. Proud of you all. The only way is up. I’m heading east first but soon I’ll be going up to Sweden.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Camping Weener 6\u20ac with a kitchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 293                                                  8th May   47miles (Groningen to Weener) Average speed 10.9 mph Top Speed 18 mph   A good day if a little cold and windy After four days of partying in Groningen it is time to hit the road again.  A big thanks to Guy for organising a tour of Groningen by bike … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1004,992,1003],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ermintrude","post-19567","format-standard","category-spc_blog","post_tag-day-293","post_tag-groningen","post_tag-weener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19597,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567\/revisions\/19597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}