I knew I would be a tourist today, I had to choose between going to Bruges or Middelburg as I didn’t have time for both. Unfortunately I watched “In Bruges” last night on Netflix. What a happy, uplifting snapshot of the human race!!! Due to the dysphoria induced by that movie, which was good but quite dark, I went to Middelburg to see several polders, which is the Dutch word for areas that have been reclaimed from the North Sea. The GPS in the car routinely said I was below sea level. Drove and walked around in Middelburg, then across the various sea works and back to Zolder via Sven Nys’s facility. Here are a couple of pics of the sea dykes (panoramic) and a double decker dutch parking structure.
Sven Nys is a multi time world cyclocross champion who has a training facility that was close to my route. Also close to my driving route is the Circuit Zolder which is a race track. 3 evenings per week they allow cyclists to ride their track, it quickly turns into speed work for the locals which I wanted none of, I just wanted to ride on an F1 track. I also rode a kilometer for so of local single track. See videos below. Zolder was auto corrected to solder by you tube.
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