Farmer's Fields and Forests

Short post today to try and get into the habit of writing more often again. There are also no pictures which makes things less interesting.

So the Netherlands is pretty rainy as I've discovered, Edward Cullen would probably be pretty happy here (twilight reference..eek). So yesterday, after spending most of the evening in my room reading, to notice the sun disappearing at about 10 and thinking to myself, oh that's right, I wanted to go for a walk today. I then though, oh I'll go tomorrow morning, or afternoon. Then I remembered that the forecast for the week was a bunch of little clouds of doom. From that moment forward I vowed, if it's not rainy you should be outside (and light of course, I'm pretty afraid of the dark)

So, as per the forecast, it was rainy this morning. I had to wear my rain jacket and a scarf over my hair. Worst so far that I've needed to bike in (but AWESOME fun fyi). But at 5:30, it was cloudy yes, but I could see little bits of blue in the sky, and no storm clouds in sight.

So I decided to go for a bike ride, a round about way home (well biking in the opposite direction of home really). It was beautiful, I mean, no New Zealand here, but I'm impressed with farmer's fields and forests. For most of my ride I didn't see a single other person. I should really make sure to bring my camera on my bike rides, but to be honest I think it's nicer to just take it all in without getting a picture. And how can you get a picture of the solitude of riding your bike on a dirt road past fields and fields -probably growing asparagus- (see earlier post). I also went through one of the only legit forests I've seen here (most of the netherlands seems like flat farmland) and a nice sized lake.


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