{"id":4323,"date":"2010-05-15T22:46:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2010-05-15T22:50:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T20:50:17","slug":"biking-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/4323","title":{"rendered":"Biking Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My husband took this photo of me at about 8am in the morning.  We left the house sometime around 7:30am to go for a short ride while the wind was low and the sun was out a bit. It was so peaceful and lovely, I was in heaven!  I\u2019m so glad that we are both early birds and enjoy doing things together early in the morning.  I really do think it\u2019s the best time of the day.<\/p>\n

We stopped at a picnic table by de Pendrechtse Molen<\/a> (windmill) for a fruit breakfast before continuing on our 15km ride through the outskirts of Rotterdam and in through Zuiderpark, where we stopped again for a short while on a bench to have a cuddle and enjoy the solitude.<\/p>\n

It was a great ride, long enough to not feel like we were home too quickly but not long enough to run me completely out of energy, as our 35km ride did on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Yep, you heard me right!  I biked my fat ass 35km around the countryside and made it home alive.  That\u2019s progress, people!  I did alright for most of it, but the last 15-20 minutes were pretty hellish.  Even Xander was getting cold and tired, so I didn\u2019t feel so bad.  If he was tired and ready to go home, I\u2019m surprised I was still functional at all, as he is much more in shape than I am.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was still a hell of a lot of fun, even if it did wear me out.<\/p>\n

Seriously though\u2026 this photo\u2026 windmills and bicycles, does it get more Dutch than that?  If only I\u2019d had clogs on, was three feet taller and 50 pounds lighter, I\u2019d totally pass for a real Dutchie in this photo!<\/p>\n

I think our next step is going to be getting a fietsdrager (bicycle rack) for the car.  Our current car doesn\u2019t have a trekhaak (god almighty my English is going to hell! I can\u2019t remember the English word for this.  It\u2019s the hook on the back of your car for dragging things)\u2026 anyway, the lease is up for this car shortly so we are going to try to ensure that our new one has one to attach the bike rack to.  We really want to be able to take the bikes to parks and nature areas all over the country and go for nice rides.  For now we are happy with exploring our surrounding areas though.  Plus, we can always get a train somewhere if we feel the need badly enough.<\/p>\n

I have some photos from different biking adventures but I\u2019m going to post them another time.  It\u2019s almost 11pm and with me being 35 now and all (my birthday was last weekend), it\u2019s SO past my bedtime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My husband took this photo of me at about 8am in the morning.  We left the house sometime around 7:30am to go for a short ride while the wind was low and the sun was out a bit. It was so peaceful and lovely, I was in heaven!  I\u2019m so glad that we are both …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[410,401,33,877],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","tag-biking","tag-exercise","tag-netherlands","tag-weightloss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}