Hi All,

Sorry that I haven't posted for a couple of days but I haven't had access to an internet connection and my telephone had poor signal.

I have nevertheless managed to cycle as far as Gun and I will be cycling through Venlo this evening and on to Neerkant where we will be staying at Camping De Molenpeel. Last night we stayed at Ooijen and the night before in Groesbeek at the Natuur Camping Groesbeek. The ride to Groesbeek was a good one, after the early session along the Pannerdensch Kanal and the Waal we hit Nijmegen and some hilly bits which were good to ride but didn't half make my arms ache, I could certainly feel them the next day. Yesterday after our stay in Groesbeek we rode to Ooijen, the first part of the ride was along the side of an old rail track and the stones from the track littered the cycle path and made it damned hard on a three wheeler but after about the first litter of sweat we reached tarmac. I was so happy to reach the hard surface I nearly kissed the ground, but the main thing was that I had made it through with Libby and Jim too.

The beautiful hard surface that I had nearly kissed son became a memory as the road torned to dust and gravel and our speed dropped to 4KM/hr. We slogged through and once the other side we picked up the pace and still managed an average speed for the day of 14KM/hr s we were pleased.

Today we had to go into Nijmegen for essentials and I am now sitting in the bus on our way to Ooijen where I will rejoin the route and head off in the direction of Venlo. I estimate a ride of 55 to 60Km this evening.

Sorry for the fairly uninteresting post, I can promise you the videos should really make you giggle but you will all have t wait untill I get back before you get to see them.

Bye for now
Matt
(published on behalf of Matt by Ilkka)