About five days ago I bought a used nice bike from a travel shop that does bike tours. It's a sweet little bike - a 7-speeder - and I really like it. I named her Sabrina after my favorite horse from my childhood riding lessons.
Friday, Peter and I packed up one pannier each with pajamas, a change of clothes, toiletries, water and chocolate milk and rode 25 miles northeast to the town of Herental where we had booked a hotel room.
Along the way we saw many horses, sheep, chickens, and donkeys. We even saw some ostriches (or maybe they were emus.)
About half way we stopped for lunch. We got chicken doner kebap sandwiches that were very good.
We also stopped at a coffee shop that was right on the trail. You can't drive to it - it's bike and foot traffic only. Pretty cool. We got coffees and blueberry cake.
When we got to Herentals we checked in at our hotel. They let us bring our bikes inside to put in a room they weren't using. We got showered and then went out for drinks. I got a Coke Zero and Peter got a local beer.
Coming home was a lot harder because we were riding into the wind a lot. Plus, our legs were tired. We were also hungrier because we had the hunger from the day before in addition to the hunger from the ride. We stopped at a grocery store for sandwich meat chicken and guacamole and chips. It was a fun way to see Belgium.
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