Day 3

4 June 2011'

As Graeme and I do alternate days to write this blog, I now add my day to this writing.

Day 3, Breakfast at Jan and Mariette Kastelijn's was as good as the fabulous dinner the night before. It certainly is Jan's passion to look after guests. Jan quit his job as Zoo-ologist and researcher to pursue his passion of waiting on others. He runs a B&B through 'Friends of Cyclist' and has a lounge room restaurant business. We very much enjoyed our stay with this couple but also looked forward to moving on as being so thoroughly waited upon and playing the guest role is not what we enjoy for too long. Anyhow with a full stomach and lunch (all the left over breakfast foods were packed up for us) tucked in our panniers we left at 8.30 am. The first hour was cycling along a dyke and thank goodness the wind was not that strong as yet! From Adelst it was direction Nijmegen and soon after, whilst riding through a beautiful forest, we crossed the border (non-existent these days) into Germany. It was very hot and humid today which meant lots of drinks. Unfortunately we did not time our morning coffee break very well as the place Graeme suggested was on a busy road and not to my liking and if only I knew that that place was the last for a very long time, I would not have been so fussy! In Kleve we had a short stop for a late lunch with a friend of ours who is there at present caring for his family. From Kleve onto Grieth, a wonderful historic town located on the Rhine but as there was no accommodation available for us that night we cycled onto Willens and stayed there for the night. Dinner at a local restaurant where a most friendly frauline (in traditional German dress) served at our table. With her tiny little ability to understand Dutch and my tine little ability to understand German we managed to order our meals and drinks.

We cycled 65km today.