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Every month, I organise a motorcycle tour with bikers from our church and
today, I did a survey for the trip I want to do at the end of this month.
Yesterday, I mounted a RAM-mount on my bike to attach a camera on my handlebars
and I mounted my big Givi topcase so I could store my helmet there if I go
somewhere.
This morning I left home on my BMW R850R at about a quarter past nine and took
the N289 past Rilland to Goes. Motoport, a big motorcycleshop in Goes is most
of the time the starting point for our trips because our church is almost next
to that shop so everyone knows where it is.
Bridges over the Schelde-Rijn channel
I was not the only biker on the road...
At the motorcycle shop, I parked my bike next to some other bikes and went inside
to check out the new bikes and to get a cup of hot chocolat before I officialy
started the survey.
My BMW at the parking in Goes
From Goes, I rode to the Zeelandbrug via the N256 and just after I crossed the
more the five kilometer long Zeeland Bridge, I stopped for a photo. The sun was
shining beautifully on the bridge and the clouds behind it were a bit dark and
that provided a nice contrast.
The Zeeland Bridge
From the Zeeland Bridge I rode to Zierikzee and I parked the BMW along the road
to the Nobel Gate, for a photo.
My bike near the Nobel Gate at Zierikzee
Just when I was ready with the photo I wanted, a friendly lady walked up to me
and offered to take a picture of me and the bike with my camera. That was nice
and that picture also turned out to be nice.
A picture of me and my bike
After all the picture taking, I had set up the Tomtom to ride to the isle Neeltje
Jans via winding roads but you don't have that much winding roads in this part of
Zeeland, so the roads were nice and quiet, but not so twisty.
A nice but straight road
In the meantime I had already rode 75 kilometers today and I had not left with
a full tank, so then I came across a Shell station at Burgh Haamstede, I
stopped to fill up.
I had 154.9 kilometers on the trip meter and could put 7.58 liters in the tank
so I drove 20.4 kilometer on one liter of fuel. Not super efficient but not
to bad either.
Shell De Schelphoek, Serooskerksewewg 13 bij Burgh Haamstede
With a full tank I left for the Oosterschelde Barrier and the visitor center
on the isle Neeltje Jans. On the road to the Oosterschelde Barrier are
large signs with corona advice, that you should avoid busy places.
Yes sure, a nice advise, at a big tourist attraction like the visitor center at
Neeltje Jans .......
The road to the isle Neeltje Jans
And indeed, it was pretty busy at the visitor center so I didn't go inside
but I turned around and drove on towards 'the racetrack of Veere', the
beautiful and winding road towards Veere.
The visitor center at Neeltje Jans
In the meantime it had started to rain a bit, but not very hard, so
that was no problem.
The road on the Oosterschelde Barrier
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