Netherlands Family Bike Tour: A journal - Day 5 of riding

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Rolling once more

Since we stayed two nights in Bunnik/Utrecht at the StayOkay hostel, we did not ride SW down through Gouda, etc. as planned. Instead we rode today up to Fort Spion and camped with plans to ride back down to a train station that had service to Rotterdam, where we needed to go.

But first, we hit up another kinderboerderij on the way out of town!

Kinderboerderij

As we rolled through Utrecht to get out of town we found another fabulous kinderboerderij and this one had a whole bunch of different cargo and adaptive bikes in kid sizes! They had farm animals, too, and a wonderful play area including a totally awesome zipline that I thought the girls were going to make themselves dizzy on, especially my youngest!

Riding along the Vecht

It was a lovely day along a quiet rode than paralleled the Vecht River. Both girls did great and it felt really good to be rolling again.

We stopped in Breukelen for groceries. It was a sweet little town and is where the name Brooklyn, New York is from!

Fort Spion

The Fort Spion campground was great. A bit too buggy (midges) and full of cobwebs, etc, but full of character and the owner/manager, Martijn, was really kind. He let us know that there was a market in Breukelen with an excellent cheese stall and great fish monger (and he was so right, the fish monger was the best!).

Lindsay Bliek

My name is Lindsay Bliek, B.Sc., B.Ed., I am a mom who uses a cargo bike to get around. I have been riding bikes for over 30 years, the last 9 of which I have been either pregnant or riding with a young kid or two. I am the recipient of the 2019 Commuter of the Year award from Bike Calgary. I seek out protected infrastructure, like pathways and cycle tracks, and I am confident enough to ride on some (but not all) roads (with my kids). I am here to answer your questions and help mobilize your family on bikes! Read more about my background and why I write, as well as my recent work outside of this blog.