A Bike Ride North

I had a very solid weekend indeed.

Friday

After grabbing a couple drinks post-work with colleges, Rachel and I headed to my place where we made some food and enjoyed the sunset from my terrace.

Saturday
The day was a bit of a downer. Miserable rain everywhere, all day long. But I got to spend
a warm/dry evening at Josh and Ashley's place with friends. Ashley cooked some amazing
leek fritters for dinner.

Sunday
The events of Sunday are related to the name of this post. After a leisurely morning, I met up with Dan, Stuart and Rachel for brunch at Greenwoods. Greenwoods is amazing. Looks like a place you'd see in Portland—delicious food, not expensive, and a line out the door.

Below is a shot of their light fixtures—up-side-down teacups!

After brunch, we hopped on our bikes for a ride up North. After a ferry ride and some city-street navigating, we were soon biking along canals and through fields dotted with cows and sheep.

The below is a map of our rough route marking where we stopped.

It's hard to make out, but there is a sailboat in the below canal, sailing along.

The canal is maybe 15ft wide...

A couple short video clips:

Our first stop was in a little village, Holysloot, where we enjoyed a beer. Then we hit the road again and continued north. At a "T" in the road we stopped at a road-side food cart. I was pretty impressed by the bike racks installed in this random location.

Getting some fries:

Stuart and Rachel:

Dan teaching Stuart how to do a hand-stand:

On our route back, we took a different route than the way up, and stopped at a lake-side cafe for another sunny afternoon refreshment.

When we made it back into Amsterdam, Rachel took us to this great place with a lot of outdoor seating. The perfect way to spend a sunny day—completely outdoors.

Monday

And the good weather continued! For 1 more day we were able to enjoy it. Monday after work I

was invited on a trip to the beach! Marieke, Stuart, and myself got a "Green-wheels" car and left 

town a little after 7. We took a wrong turn along the way and were forced to enjoy 

a lovely ferry ride:

The beach they took me to was beautiful. I guess it's pretty popular among the local surfers, and on a hot sunny day it gets packed. Since we were hitting it in the evening, and it wasn't hot, 

it was not crowded at all.

Marieke and I spent some time running around in the sand while Stuart went swimming.

Then we hit up one of the restaurants along the beach for a nice sunset dinner. Our table was right on the beach. And as usual, I took a ridiculous number of photos of the sunset, but I'll try and only bore you with a couple.

It was a good weekend.