Pedal Pushing - and Other Activities - in Holland

Tea and apple cake in the coach house garden, with Anke.
Anke and John outside the coach house - their home for a month!
'King' Wilhelm enjoys the grapes!
Outside the Hotel de Poste, Ootmarsum... no-one came to 'shoe' us away!
Admiring one of the Ootmarsum sculptures.
Talk about 'sit up and beg'!
Cousin Ann and Sandra roll merrily along!
Windmill photo op.!
Breakfast at Hotel de Leeuw, Deventer.
Cousin Ann and Sandra, flanking Hortance, our gracious hostess at Hotel de Leeuw!
Scarf shopping at Deventer market....
...followed by lunch in the sunshine!

As Time Goes By....

....so quickly, it seems that I don't get around to posting anything on the pages of Flotsam 'n' Jetsam, so I must really try to make up for the silence of more than six months!
Once again I am in the local library - at Yate today, as the Chipping Sodbury library closes on Mondays - with my little netbook, hoping to post some news. The netbook hasn't been super-co-operative of late, but I'll hope for the best.....
I arrived in England this past Friday, from Amsterdam, after some amazing days spent in both Holland and Switzerland. The goal, in both places, was to see as much as possible, as well as to get in some biking - and I'd say that the goal was definitely achieved!
In Holland, cousin Ann, Sandra and I spent time in Deventer, a charming small town an hour and a half by train from Amsterdam. This location, and the Hotel de Leeuw, where we stayed in the centre of Deventer, were both recommended to us by Anke, a friend from Sidney. An added bonus was that Anke herself, and husband John, were in the area at the same time, so our first bike ride was out to visit them in Epse, where they were renting a cosy little coach house for the month. Our last day there - Friday - they came into Deventer, and we all enjoyed browsing around at the weekly market and having lunch together. Between those two days, we enjoyed some wonderful bike rides along the IJssel River dyke, as well as a trip by train and bus to Ootmarsum, a quaint and well-preserved medieval town. I'll now try to post some pictures...