Day 10 Ghent - Rotterdam Europoort

A big day cycling. We set off from Ghent all ready for our trip into the Netherlands and an overnight at Veere. However, on the Breskens-Vlissingen ferry we had time to look at the weather for the next day. This was showing an increasing likelihood of very severe lightning storms on our route which included crossings of the long dams of the Delta project. Apparently it is not recommended to cross these dams when the lightning risk is severe

Hence a quick change of plan. We decided the least bad option was to combine two days of cycling and to press on to Europoort for our ferry so helped by a slight tailwind component we pressed on, stopping only briefly, and just made it to the ferry in time to change our sailing date and start the journey home.

The areas around the dams were beautiful with amazing white sand beaches and the civil engineering excellence of the Netherlands was once again on display with those huge dam projects. Between the dams and Europort was a very beautiful area of small towns and villages which you would never imagine being so close to the massive industrial complex that is Europoort.

We were absolutely exhausted on arrival after 141 k and collapsed into our cabins after eating.Read more