Memorable Meetings of the Terrific and Terrifying kind
After sticking to roads for about three weeks I had the urge to get out, find a dirt track and see what else there is on Hokkaido. According to my logic there had to be […]
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Festivals, Flowers, Food & Friends.
Shimokawa is a fairly inconspicuous little town in the middle of Hokkaido. When I rode into town one dreary afternoon I had no idea I wouldn’t cycle out for another 5 days. But that was […]
Shows and Showers
If you follow this road and turn left at the end, you get back to the main track. A friendly man painting his fence told me. So I followed the road. But there didn’t seem […]
Coast and Country
I’m not the only cycling Dutch girl in the family. Meet Ineke. She is one of my grandmothers younger sisters. In 1951, as a 22-year-old, she married Dick Van Der Kley in the Netherlands. One […]
A Wonderful World of Water and Wind
It now seems ages ago I shot down the rail trail. The original railway was completed in 1921. As it turned out the line was uneconomic. Lucky for cyclist young and old, the Department of […]
About Rainbows, Random Encounters and the Royal Flying Doctors
Warburton is one of the Aboriginal communities in the shire of Ngaanyatjarraku. Yes… I’ve been trying to pronounce that too. This shire is rather unique in the fact it has a whole 12.6 km of […]
Bugs, bags and a Bobcat
Sometimes when I cycle, or work, I suddenly think of something I would like to share with you. I then quickly write it down before I forget. This is what I wrote down the other […]
