More about Monday

Unloading bikes from the barge 1st thing in the a.m.

the dining room on the barge,where cook Simon works his magic. The meals are fantastic! every night he cooks from a different country. So far we've had Indonesian night and English night.

Sorry, got interrupted. About iconagraphy, if it's a cat and it's purring, it's a symbol of prayer. If doing anything else it's a symbol of a fallen woman. I won a prize for answering correctly the most questions about the Bible stories in the windows (CBC's, you should be proud of me!)

Then we set off on bikes travelling south to Rotterdam. On the way we stopped at Kinderdijk, where 19 windmills are lodcated in one place. We learned that one windmill can pump water only about a meter and a half, and that the field where the Kinderdijk windmills are located is so low that the water needed to be pumped many meters high into the Rhein, so they needed many windmills. All the windmills at Kinderdijk (except one kept empty for tourists to see) are occupied and functional in case the electricity-powered currently used pumps don't work. After Kinderdijk we rode on to and through Rotterdam, the 3rd largest port in the world, caught the barge again and are currently underway to Delft (of pottery fame), where we'll spend the night. Another 56km. biked today. It's really not that hard. It's fun.