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Cafe right on the LF5 bike route, near Lier

Beware of Frog?

Friday: New country = new map (the 50,000:1 Vlaanderen Fietsroute, light on detail so mostly useful for navigating by pattern, e.g. “I should hit an angled T intersection and cross a canal in about 8km”)

Laying on my back somewhere in The Netherlands, surrounded by vocal evening birds. Not a bad end to a Thursday.

Roadside hot sandwich vending machine

Dirt bike path beats no bike path (just west of Turnhout, on the Flanders Cycle Route LF5)

Minor traction challenges on a “shortcut” through a farm. Also, I think this is the Netherlands-Belgium border. I’ll have to check the photo geotag when I’m home.

Bike path along the Antwerp-Turnhout Canal. Riders in full spandex kits zoom by. Definitely in Flanders now.

In the woods, surrounded by chirping birds, I heard a strange noise and came across this: a guy laying bricks, with the tink-tink-tink sound of a metal tool on brick in sync with techno playing from a portable stereo.

Realized yesterday I was only 40 miles from Bierbrouwerij Koningshoeven (the only Trappist beer brewing abbey not in Belgium, a.k.a. “La Trappe”)– sounded worth a route change.