So, we're leaving our B&B and heading to Kinderdijk (next post) following the directions of our excellent car GPS. But we seem to be driving back where we came from. We try to intervene with the map and the GPS keeps taking us in circles. What can be going on? Finally we determine the GPS is set to avoid ferries and there's only one convenient way to get across the Lek (Rhine) and it's a ferry rather than a bridge! The ferry is considered part of the road.
This is just one of the perils of driving in Holland. Then there are the narrow streets, especially difficult with the big car we have to give Wayne leg and head room:
Note the houses here well below the road built along the top of the dike. Sometimes there is a separate road for bikes nearby, sometimes there's one bike area, with painted lines separating the two directions, sometimes there's a concrete separation, sometimes there's not. The inconsistency is disconcerting as well as the fact that bikes always have priority. Challenging to be a driver.
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