A riding day of about 25 miles , passing through several small villages and one of the major tulip growing areas. The tulips have mostly been harvested now but some of the fields still had colorful flowers. we reached Leiden in the early afternoon and checked into the room we had booked ahead, which turned out to be a canal-side apartment even featuring a garage for the bike. Rode the bike through town on one Excursion to the tourist office, but otherwise took it easy and tried to stay warm. When we started to go out to dinner we faced what one of the locals called an apocalyptic storm. Actually typical Tampa Bay thunderstorm , except much colder. Good thing the bike was
protected in the garage. After we had waited just a few minutes the storm was over and we ended the evening well fed.
Leiden is a very pretty small city with many canals filled with small pleasure boats, canal boats and barges.
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