Beach and Turkish Pizza

Sunday October 2

We headed out after a late breakfast toward the North Sea and the beaches. From De Engel along country lanes to a bike path (fietspad) along a busy road up to Noordwijk and then along brick-paved bike paths through the dunelands to Katwijk and its beach and then up to Scheweningen, which is the beach town for Den Haag. It has a huge double-decked pier with casino, restaurant, bungy jumping over the North Sea. We ate Turkish pizza--large pita bread with meat and veggies and spices. The trams from The Hague run out here and there was a crushing number of bikes parked near the beach.

On the trails, continuous bike traffic. Serious road cyclists with Lycra and helmets, omas and opas, families with kids, electric mobility scooters that go the speed of a slow bike. There are some of the larger hills in Holland along this route. We covered about 40 miles in all.