We start the day with a big breakfast in the hotel. We realise that upon leaving that the Postillion Hotel where we have just checked out from has a big poster advertising it showing 3 young white businessmen in suits socialising. The car park has no places for disabled motorists but instead has 6 places near the entrance reserved for women with an icon of a high heel to indicate the consideration that the corporate patriarchy is showing. I joke that this should have been named Brostillion Hotel instead. I don't know if they saw the issue.
We cycle a more scenic route and cross several rivers, follow dykes and beautiful fields which stretch out as far into the distance as you can see.
The route is almost totally flat and the road disappears between us as our bikes power through the country.
We stop several times to drink and eat. In the suburbs of Gorinchem we stop at an Aldi to buy food for the next day as we quickly run out of energy as we arrive in the suburbs. I return with chocolate, cheese, butter, bread and fruit for the next day. We devour a pastry and juice in the carpark and cycle onto the hotel which is in a part of the town centre centre that probably features on chocolate boxes. Our room on the top is pleasant and after a meal outside which is so copious that we ask for a doggy bag, we go to bed.
This article has been written by Christian and illustrated by Candy
