DAY63 SUNDAY MAY 27 CANALS AND WINDMILLS

Breakfast was at 8am and we cast off and sailed through the main wide canal, passing many river cruisers and freight barges.  Another 28C day was predicted and the scenery was very pleasant.  At 10.30am the barge unloaded us and our bikes and sailed off to our destination for the day while we followed a variety of different types of bike paths, about half of which were free of cars.  Today is Whitsunday and a national public holiday, so everyone seemed to be out cycling in the warm weather.  It was amazing to see all the country roads with many more cycles than cars.  We saw castles, forts, farms, forests, very old houses and even heard a cuckoo calling for the first time.  Jan, our guide, stopped at a roadside B&B and convinced the owner that we should be able to eat our prepared lunches in his little garden cafe if we bought some drinks. When we arrived at our barge a lot of people were swimming in the river and we were very close to a traditional windmill which was renovated to show how grain was turned into flour using wind power.  We wandered through the old town inside the brick town wall.  Today we rode about 35 kilometers.

WOODEN COGS DRIVEN BY THE WINDMILL