82. Needs the fresh corn, and more peppers. I’d make this again if we just had an abundance of fresh corn, but otherwise there are probably better uses for fresh corn
Day 73. Rode to the airport to find the bike box counter. Headed home on Tuesday.
Days 69 & 70. A day in Rotterdam. Typical Dutch®️ weather into The Hague.
Days 67 & 68. 94mi of windmills & corn.
Days 62-65. 62mi to Antwerp after a few days drinking lambic around Brussels. Things got real Dutch real fast, and we won’t cross the border until tomorrow.
Day 61. A few wet cobbles is too many wet cobbles.
Days 59 & 60, but mostly 59. 77mi through Wallonia with a stop in Soy to visit Dany Prignon at Brasseire Fantôme, brewer of ever changing, ever interesting, saisons. I’d emailed Dany last week about stopping by, and he replied that he’d be around Saturday afternoon when we figured we’d get in. We rolled up around 2pm, and milled about until Dany popped out of the back. It turned out he hadn’t been to the brewery in a few weeks. He poured us a couple beers, showed us around, and went to read the paper. We were there for nearly two hours. No one else came or went. I bought some bottles to drink in Namur, Dany went back to reading the paper. I’m grateful I can get this beer in Denver, and that Dany brews it all, in this small barn, in tiny Soy.
Days 57 & 58. 113mi out of France, via the citadel of Rodemack, across Luxembourg, and into the punishing hills and endless planted timber forests of Belgium.
Days 55 & 56. 120mi though Nancy to Thionenville. Rad bike collective in Nancy @atelier.dynamo.nancy. Cooler mornings, the occasional fallen leaf.
Day 54. 46mi and 4 cols as we exit the quiet and beautiful roads of Les Vosges, a region we would’ve ridden right past had Jenn not made small talk with the guy sheltering from the rain with us in Lamoura.
