Bye bye Belgium

We were leaving Brugge after lunch time. It was a relatively long ride out of Belgium and into the Netherlands. We headed east out of Brugge and then due north towards Breda in Holland. An easterly kink and then north again had us bypass Rotterdam and then directly towards Amsterdam. Total trip time was about 290kms but we had a much smaller time window this day in which to make it happen. We had mixed fortunes with the weather but by and large we got wet cold and strongly wind swept.
We were hoping to meet up with Sol's eldest daughter In Amsterdam. She was living and working there with her boyfriend from Australia. Sol and daughter had been estranged and he told her from back in Australia that he was coming to visit her while on this ride. She really did not believe him but humored him anyway.