Met up with Frank (Astennu) and Tim (Drinky) at the oortjeshekken at about 0945 this morning, we had a nice cup of coffie and an apple pie, we first sat down outside in the sun but after being attacked by wasps we decided to move inside.
Heres a pic of Tim on his new FZ1, and Frank on his orange FZ6 with lazer quad pipes and xenon headlamps both really nice bikes.
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We went on a ride to Haltern am see in Germany, the weather was dry for the first half of our ride. I had a few hickups with my Garmin first of all the route was a figure of eight (well more like the infinity symbol) and where the route "there" and the route "back" cross it had us follow the route back for a short while
we soon noticed this mistake and backtracked to the original route. Note to self always make seperate to and from routes when they cross each other.
later I lost all roads apart from motorways, I suspect that I hadn't loaded the Germany maps, but as it had worked just across the border before I simply assumed it was OK :spank: luckily we half muddled our way with the help of Franks TomTom program on his IPhone.
We stopped off at Haltern am see for a nice meal, we found a place with reasonably priced food and were pleasantly surprised to find this included a set starter, a salad bar and a set sweet :thumbup:.
As we left the restaurant it started to rain, luckily the weather had been good to us up till now (considering there has been lots of rain for the last week). The rain didn't last too long, and after muddling our way back to the route we set off home again.
When we arrived in Holland we got some unsuspecting young lady to take our picture at a windmill, she had to stand in the middle of the roundabout to get this picture.
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Then I took one with just the bikes in it.
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After this we said our farewells to Tim before he headed off home and Frank and I went for a (non alcoholic drink) and I had a shoarma (kebab). After this Frank took me on a scenic route heading back where I had to leave to go back to Alkmaar, we first did the seven hill road (yes there are some real hills in Holland
) followed by a great ride along the winding dike road.
After this I waved bye to Frank and headed home. When I set off it was gloriously sunny and I was really enjoying the ride (even though it was the highway) for about the first hour it was like this but then everything got terribly dark and shortly after Amsterdam the heavens opened on me. Luckily it was only another 20 minutes left of my journey, and considering the weather had been good to me the whole day I couldn't complain.
Thanks for a great day out guys, maybe next time we can ride the route from begining to end without any hickups :thumbup:
