We’re glad we did that extra 20 kms yesterday with a tail wind as it would have been a headwind today.

We’d done so well, camping right on the route. We left camp and followed the signs, then got distracted by an Aldi. We stopped, grabbed some lunch and continued on. But where are those damn signs?

Mike checked his phone and said we were right on the route. We were cycling along a cycle path next to a busy road but I thought we were to cycle alongside the inlet today. So we stopped and double checked and sure enough, we had gone astray.

So we managed to get back on the inlet track and it was so much nicer cycling alongside the water. The smell of onions was strong in the air today, with fields of them growing beside the track. I saw a couple had spilled onto the road and I was about to pick one up but there was a tractor up my arse so it got splattered.

Today we had a ferry crossing. We thought we were going to Belgium but we are actually still in Holland, but are following to North Sea cycle route south.

It was nice to see the sea again but the beaches are so crowded. We stopped at the first campground we came across not really expecting to get a spot. It was 5.30pm and there were throngs of people heading back from the beach, kids running feral all over the place. Basically my idea of hell, but we needed a place to sleep and they had space.

They showed us on a map where to go, so we put up our tent and went to find the showers. According to the map they were just up on the right. But after walking around for ages trying to find them and asking two people, we found out they were actually on our left.

When I got back to our camp I double checked the map and it was definitely wrong. Either that or we’d camped in the wrong spot. On closer inspection the latter was correct. We were in the wrong spot. I just hope they don’t ask us to move.

We had dinner at a restaurant next door to the camp and had a massive burger each.