Today I had my first swim in the North Sea. The temperature was a lot warmer than the last time I swam at Avoca, although it was quite windy and the surf was messy.

We then headed off to Kinderdijk which was about 1.5 hrs south of Noordwijk. DB drove really well on the fast roads with lots of traffic. On our arrival at Kinderjijk we hired 2 bikes to ride the cycleway along the canals. The bikes were quite different to ride than our mountain bikes. You sit on them quite upright, but once I got used to the different posture we cruised along nicely. The touristy thing of this area was the windmills which dated back to 1740 and were used to pump water from the flooded land. There are 19 windmills in total, 2 of them museums that you can go in and the rest were working windmills and were peoples homes. The inside of the windmills are very compact, with beds in cupboards and an outhouse kitchen. The yards were all setup as they were in the early days, depicting life in the1800s. We road along the canal for about 3 hours. It was a very pleasant day. The return trip we took through the countryside as opposed to freeway driving. It was very pretty.

Ten more competitors arrived today with the remainder coming from London tomorrow.