Straight forward ride today - I was the first off the ferry at 9am and after a brief chat with Customs about Newcastle and Feyernord I wss on the road at five past. It was a bright slightly hazy morning and I spent the first 15 miles zig zagging the polders around Europoort. Then I diverted to go into a walled and moated town called Brielle where I cycled tgriugh an arch and was soon alongside multiple dykes full of boats on marinas and small drawbridges. There was a large Windmill in town and a church, bith of which I visited. I crossed from one side if tge Polder to the south side and was soon in Hellevoetsluis passing a park with an old jet fighter and dinosaurs ! I reached the Centre where I caught the bridge swinging to let boats out to sea from the canal. The river wad full of colour with reflections of houses and boats. From Hellevoetsluis I crossed a massive set of sluice gates which control the water level inland. A motorwag ran across the sluice with a cycle lane parallel. I took a left down a pretty street with a hugh Windmill in the middle of the street at the bottom. From here I hit fields with lines or avenues of trees and wind turbines. I stopped to video the avenue leading to Middelharnis made famous by tge dutch artist Hobbema who painted it in the 17th century. So an easy ride finished at my guedt hiuse shortly after Noon and I had lunch in town by the canal on a very ttendy corner !