Antwerp - Bergen op Zoom

I am going to use the number system today to find my way.  http://www.fietsnet.be/  You just go from number to number following the signs to the next number.  There is no real order to the numbers. Simple yea! Leaving Antwerp I found an elevator and ½ mile tunnel to bike under the river.  On the other side ran across a bike shop that provided me with a tail light replacement bracket for free.  Light just broke off as I was riding down a road the day before.  As I was now on the wrong side of the river but had fun getting here I decide to return.  There was another tunnel.  The elevator was broken so I needed to take the fully loaded bike down the escalator.  It was a long escalator and if something went wrong, it was going to be bad.  Some one told me to stand on the same step as the front tire.  I went for it and there was a second escalator down and that worked out ok also.   Good brakes and standing on the step with the front tire works.  Found that I bypassed several numbers on my list, and this continued to happen a number of times during the day.  I took the route through the docks.  15 miles from Antwerp I left the shipping container canyons.  The docks did have a truck stop and I found a map of Holland.  This is my first paper map of a county since Briton.  Then it was on to wooded bike paths.  Crossed into Netherland/Holland and found room at the hostel in Bergen op Zoom.  I like any town with zoom in the name. 

5/28/10

45 mile Thought I wrote down the stats (Cloudy with strong winds from the west)

Love & kisses

Steve