Cycling trip day 19
Time to move on from Rotterdam, towards the sea! But first, lunch. Vegan sushi place "Nori" seemed highly rated, so that way. One thing I've noticed in a few places outside Finland is that menus sometimes talk of "beef", "salmon", etc. I had to ask in this place whether it was vegan actually and the answer was yes, but that menu items needed common names people can identify with. I'm used to in Finland at least that animal like ingredients usually have a vegan name, like "vuusto" (instead of "juusto") for vegan cheese or using the brand name of whatever the animal substitute is.
Nori's specialty was their meat substitute sushi, so I took a "Meat lovers box" collection as otherwise choosing would have been way too hard. "Meat sushi" felt a bit weird and especially eating something called "meat lover" 😅 But it was very nice, beautifully made and with beautiful tastes.
With a tummy fill of sushi I proceeded north towards the sea. I have been missing the sea, not seeing it for weeks and not hearing the sound of seagulls has been weird. Does the sea have some kind of scent? I swear some kilometers before reaching the beach I could feel the air changing, which gave me energy to push onward.
The best part of this day was the ride along the sea, on a good quality bicycle road within the massive sand dunes covering hundreds of meters of land from the beach. Lots of road bikes going in both direction that I couldn't keep up with even though with the now tail wind I was putting some good amount of speed in myself.
I've always had a thing for the charm of seaside towns, with their rows of hotels, some looking like palaces, some actually called "Palace Hotel", rows of cafes and small shops selling beach stuff. I grew up spending a lot of my summer holidays in places like this on the southern UK coast, which is probably why.
Finally said bye to the sea and headed through Haarlem to Amsterdam, reaching the central camping site "Camping Zeerburg" just in time for a pizza and some beers.
To celebrate the last actual ride day pushed my daily ride record a bit further \o/
Distance cycled: 121.30km (today), 1376.95km (total)
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