Needless to say we all slept like cats on a sofa after our
first day filled with travelling, emotions and activity. Luke my big brother
stayed with me in my apartment while my parents stayed at the Scholtens. This
meant that the evening before we first had to cycle all the way across
Hilversum before we could crash for the night. On the way to my apartment we
pass a ‘brandweer’ or fire station which has big massive glass windows for the
garage doors so you can see the fire engines. My brother must have been really
tired as while we cycled past he asked if it was the library. It was good to
have my brother back.
The plan for the day was to spend it with the Scholten’s and
what a better way to experience the dutchness than to cycle. So after hurling
Luke out of bed we set off back past the library to the Scholten’s to eat
breakkie. Ellen, my host mom had
organised bikes for my whole family and after some brekkie we all got onto our
bikes. The whole Scholten family and the whole Jessop family had formed a biker
gang for the day. And what a day it was! A blue moon or as the Dutch call it a
blue sky. Sun, oh yes the wonderful sun had graced us with its presence on
exactly the right day and the Jessop/Scholten biker gang rode on in good
spirits.
We cycled out of Hilversum through the forest and the
heather towards a little town called ‘Lage Vuursche’ nearby where the Queen of
Holland has a spring household. We however were not on our way to have tea with
the Queen but to eat some famous Dutch pancakes! The size of large pizzas,
savoury and/or sweet and a taste that will cause your taste buds to orgasm.
Lunch was good.
After our satisfying luncheon we decided to play what the
locals call ‘midget golf’ or in a more politically correct nation putt-putt.
Much to our surprise and my brother’s humorous satisfaction who should we find
playing just a few holes in front of us but a midget. I’m still not sure whether to call it ironic
or poetic...
18 holes later and our biker gang were back on the road
again making for home. Rick however had been having nervous fits all day as the
following day was his parents wedding anniversary and they were going to go out
as a family for dinner but he had just been asked by his boss to work that
evening. He spent the day starring at his phone waiting for his boss to reply
to his plea to change his shift and by the end of the day he roared off ahead
of us to see his boss at work. We all got home tired and content with the days
progression. Though for us young folk the end of the day is the start of the
night and we all know what that means.
After playing Kings with Rick’s friends we went out, in both
meanings of the term. I had already become accustomed to going out on a bike
but for my brother it was his virgin voyage. Thankfully we all arrived in town
safely and had a great night even in the unfortunately named club ‘G-spot’.
Another day passed, another day to look forward to...
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