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Weary because of 40km tours the days before, but the curse of summer forces to go out anyway.
It was a warm august night with a full moon, what more do you want...
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A full km of new throw away cars. |
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Those chemical plants can be so pretty in the sunset. |
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Enter windmill country.
And some trains with nasty stuff will cross your path. |
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The Acropolis at sunset. No not really, but the effect was very nice. |
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Another chemical processing plant. Very pretty in the sunset, with tabletop mountains of stuff to process and blueish pink smoke belching. It was breathtaking. Literally: the smell was horrendous.
Hard for a cyclist to breathe shallow when he needs oxygen. Makes you wonder if those factories are worth their existence. Maybe they make some compound for my tires. |
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Caland bridge. |
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Those windbraker things are a thing to behold. Will visit those better another day. |
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The sign over there says "swimming not allowed".
They kindly put a ladder there. Does not look very inviting to me... |
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Those colors... could that be from that blueish pink smoke... |
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They are so impressive. Funny to realize: that's where my power is coming from, according to the label on top. |
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That tempting road to the Maasvlakte. |
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Big? No, HUGE constructs they are. |
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Harmsenbrug. Turned back here though wanted to go to the maasvlakte all the way but would be dark and remembering yesterdays efforts... |
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... So now I was on a different path. Without much warning the bicycle road turned into a sheep farm. |
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Better slow down a bit. Or am I getting sleepy. |
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It turned out to be a narrow strip of 10 km sheep territory, essentially in the middle of a river, with a bicycle path trough it. What a nice discovery! |
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Crossing the Oude Maas. Had a nice conversation with a fellow night traveller on an electric road machine who made an impressive distance that day. No, it was not an e-bike. |
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'twas more like this; thanks Meiprime31 for capturing that moon. My old cellphone can't cope with darkness.
Turned out I did 68 km all together. Improving my technique helped, no more knee pains. Very nice to feel my condition is still improving despite more kms than I usually do and that without resting days in between.
One of my most memorable tours this was.
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