Monday – October 20.
The trains and construction cleared up enough for us to head back to Wageningen in the late morning. Spent most of the rest of the day unpacking and doing laundry from our trip to the U.K.

Tuesday – October 21
Pretty much a rest and catch up day – recycling cans, grocery shopping and some resting.

Wednesday – October 22
Sunrise: 8:10 Sunset: 6:28PM Beautiful day but partly cloudy conditions expected around 7PM Low was: 52 and the High: 58
Esther had a rough night of sleep because of her blood sugars and the calibration of her new sensor. She also had an industry talk and got picked up at 7AM for a 2 hour drive to the company headquarters – fun day for Esther.

Started my day by going to the open air market which is held every Wednesday from 8:30 to 1PM. What a great market with vendors selling all kinds of goods: fabric, shoes, veggies, bread, cheese, fish, meat, nuts, coffee, tea and all kind of gifty things.

Had a great ride to Arnhem and back today – not many pictures taken because I wanted to keep my momentum up so I could get a good workout to start burning the calories I consumed in the U.K. – the section along the Rhine River was especially nice. There were a few serious climbs in and around Arnhem.

Thursday – October 22
Sunrise: 8:16AM Sunset: 6:26PM – Windy conditions expected around 9AM. Wind gust up to 30mph are making the temperature feel like 49 degrees. Low: 47 – High: 57

I had planned to do a 24 mile ride today but I got a later than expected start and we had Maurice and Maartje coming over for dinner I decided to cut my ride short – with wind gusts up to 30mph the ride felt a lot longer than the 12.48 miles it was.

Friday – October 23
Sunrise: 8:18 Sunset: 5:47 Overcast, rain at times, cold and very windy today – wind gusts up to 30mph.
Esther registered me at the local doctors online then we rode our bikes to the office to see about making me an appointment about my chronic cough and possible sinus infection. I was able to get an appointment at 3:15 that day, Doctor checked my oxygen level(97), my breathing(lungs clear) and took a prick of blood to test for an infection – all was clear.
Rode my bike back to the bike store in Bennekom to get a helmet and saddle bags. It started to rain on my home and occasionally the wind was so strong I had real difficulty pedally against it.
Spent the rest of the day resting at home.
Dinner: roasted sweet potato, cooked cabbage with our leftover sausage and a salad with kol robi

Saturday – October 25
Went the the downtown market this morning to get some fresh trout and some other things we need and had lunch at Bisou Brasserie – I had the Stokbroodje Beenham and Esther had the Salade Carpaccio.
Dinner with Franc and Esther – It was a fun evening – they are great people to be around – fun to talk to. We arrived at their home at 5PM, amidst a driving rain and the evening started with tea, a piece of apple pie and a lot of fun conversation in the living room on the sofa. After a while we had some beer, cheese and crackers and Franc and I proceeded to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for dinner. Roasted pumpkin, onions, cooked fennel root, rice and salad- with goat cheese, figs and pine nuts – it was all very tasty.

Sunday – October 26
The weather called for a cold, windy and rainy day but at 9:30 there was blue sky and sun so Es and I decided to risk it and we rode the 14 miles to Kroller Muller museum. It was a beautiful ride and we both felt refreshed because of the extra hour of sleep we got because of daylight savings change back. About 2km away from the museum it started to rain pretty hard and we got fairly wet – so the hot cappuccino we got at museum tasted pretty good. The museum is the life-work of collector Helene Kroller-Muller and her husband Anton who between 1907 – 1922 aquired 11,500 artworks including Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Piet Mondriaan and others. The museum also houses the second largest collection of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings and drawings.

and that ends week 4 of our stay in the Netherlands – next week is when we move from one house to another – should be an adventure.