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Why is there no Holland section here?!?
After once just nicking in to Holland on my "Six Countries in One Day" day trip a few years ago, I've just come back from a long weekend at the Dutch TT in Assen. We were lucky with the weather - entirely dry, daily max temperatures between 25 and 33 Celsius.
The ride up from Eurotunnel to Assen on friday was a nightmare. What should have been five hours riding took eight hours, caused by volume of traffic and some long stretched of roadworks around Ghent and Antwerp in Belgium and Breda and Utrecht in Holland. Apparently we picked the worst day start of school holiday in Belgium and good weather forecast for the weekend meant the whole of Belgium was driving somewhere on Friday. We only came to a standstill a few times, opting for manic filtering whenever it looked even remotely possible on a K1600 with panniers. It was only in the last hour, approaching 7 pm, that the motorways cleared in the north and the landscape became a bit more rural.
Riding between the accommodation and Assen circuit on Saturday and Sunday was a much nicer experience. Away from the motorways the smaller roads are a delight - incredibly good surface, hardly any traffic apart from the odd gaggle of bicycles, and pretty scenery within the constraints of being billiard table flat.
Ride home was a lot better. If I was doing the trip again I think I'd plot a route away from the motorways and split it over two days.
Petrol is at least 1.65 (Euros) a litre.
All in all, I think I've answered my own question.
After once just nicking in to Holland on my "Six Countries in One Day" day trip a few years ago, I've just come back from a long weekend at the Dutch TT in Assen. We were lucky with the weather - entirely dry, daily max temperatures between 25 and 33 Celsius.
The ride up from Eurotunnel to Assen on friday was a nightmare. What should have been five hours riding took eight hours, caused by volume of traffic and some long stretched of roadworks around Ghent and Antwerp in Belgium and Breda and Utrecht in Holland. Apparently we picked the worst day start of school holiday in Belgium and good weather forecast for the weekend meant the whole of Belgium was driving somewhere on Friday. We only came to a standstill a few times, opting for manic filtering whenever it looked even remotely possible on a K1600 with panniers. It was only in the last hour, approaching 7 pm, that the motorways cleared in the north and the landscape became a bit more rural.
Riding between the accommodation and Assen circuit on Saturday and Sunday was a much nicer experience. Away from the motorways the smaller roads are a delight - incredibly good surface, hardly any traffic apart from the odd gaggle of bicycles, and pretty scenery within the constraints of being billiard table flat.
Ride home was a lot better. If I was doing the trip again I think I'd plot a route away from the motorways and split it over two days.
Petrol is at least 1.65 (Euros) a litre.
All in all, I think I've answered my own question.