I looked up the amusing “glad rooster” and “wild rooster” warning signs I’d seen on the trip, and Google Translate says they mean “smooth grid” and “cattle grid”. Aha! That seems believable, I think I generally saw them near cattle grids, those open-bar grates that cows won’t cross but humans can (as well as bikes, if they’re careful to stay perpendicular to the slots– the slots are certainly wide enough to eat a wheel). ...
Three weeks of solo bike touring and camping, across 600+ miles of The Netherlands and Belgium. Riding over massive man-made dikes, on paved bike paths cutting through dark forests and rural farm fields (where I might not see another person for hours), to Trappist breweries and old towns, along canals, on muddy back roads and unsigned border crossings, and to a bonfire with a band playing under a rusted crane. ...
Favorite warning sign of the trip (I’m sure it has a translation, but I like to think it’s warning of a giant, overly-amorous rooster roaming the countryside)
Biking through former industrial yards (now shipping container artists’ studios, I think?) across the water from central Amsterdam
Guy biking with daughter in bakfiets, each holding a cone of frites.
In ANWB ‘directional mushrooms’ I Trust. And, acres of greenhouses.
More industry
To my surprise, deep in the industrial port, came across an info center (with coffee and pastries!) for Maasvlatke 2, a project to build a new port here by creating new land from dredged sand.
Even more wind turbines, though bike path’s blocked
Detoured to an industrial peninsula on the map (still has bike paths, so should be allowed)