To Catch a Ferry
Thursday, August 04, 2022 Our original plan had been to find our way, with our bikes, to Basel. Then to ride to Budapest. But getting the bikes to Basel was complicated, with Eurostar still not carrying them due to Covid (!) and friends ahead of us, already on the ride to Budapest, mentioned that the route was not as interesting as hoped, less so than in France (the part of the route we had done pre-Covid) and that 36C was no fun to ride in even with prevailing headwinds. So Bev and I changed our plans, to stay closer to the North Sea coast and, hopefully, more tolerable temperatures. We had spent a week holed up in a hotel in Greenwich, isolating as suggested (but not required!) until we were no longer Covid-infectious. We booked a cabin on the ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland and could have waited out a few more days in our shabbily expensive hotel before getting a ride to Harwich but, still somewhat restricted by post-Covid energy-doldrums, decided instead to ride slowly to...