Today we left the Netherlands or as I affectionately call it" Fiets Fiets Fiets" (bicycles bicycles bicycles). Everyone knows Holland for windmills, tulips and Amsterdam's Red Light District, but anyone who has been there will remember it for the fleet of bicycles riding along the hundreds of kilometers of bike lanes along every street, road, and sidewalk with separate traffic lights. Everyone, young and old, owns a bike or two. There is something like 17 or 18 million bikes for the approximately 16 million people in the Netherlands.
After ten or so hours and five trains we finally arrived in Schwerin, Deutschland to our (happy to be speaking real Canadian) friend Kelly and her genuine German husband, Klaus. We then feasted on ribs at "Jack the Ribber" restaurant and then had coffee at our temporary home at Hotel Fritz.
For the next few days we will experience the sights and sounds of Schwerin, check out nearby Rostock, and maybe take in a schlossnachtgarten festival.
Tschüß,
Doug and Rae
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