Ecologbook: Visiting Vlieland and getting a free shower

First things first: sleep and rest. After the 29h of solo-sailing, I slept until rather late, had a lazy morning, played some music in the evening and the only thing I did all day was to prepare a massive salad.

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The neighbours that were coming from Scotland left in the late afternoon to do the last leg of their journey with the tide. I had German neighbours on the other side that were super nice, and we started talking about sailing, Vlieland, music, etc.

The next day I went for a tour of Vlieland by bike. It started all good and pleasant: delightful landscape, goats, some hills and sea buckthorn.

I then took a turn to cross to the other side of the island. There too, the landscape was magical, the path goes in some sort of meadow/marches with tiny hills. They look almost dropped there between the inland height and the big sand dunes that protect it from the sea breeze and the bad weather.

Speaking of bad weather, while I was in the middle of nowhere cycling, a massive downpour started and accompanied me for quite a while. I was soaked through and through and my poor bike was covered in wet sand, dirt, and whatnot. Enough to make you think of bike-vacations in Bretagne from when I was a young kid.

I did not manage to find a shelter while the rain was going on and on and on but soaked for soaked I went swimming for a little bit, before heading back to the boat.