{"id":105017,"date":"2015-04-08T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ponyanddogtrip.com\/?p=105017"},"modified":"2021-12-01T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:11:40","slug":"wednesday-april-8-th-undeloh-28-km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponyanddogtrip.nl\/en\/wednesday-april-8-th-undeloh-28-km\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday April 8th 2015. Undeloh 28 km"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aankomst\u00a0Arrival at B&B in Undeloh<\/p>\n

\"Overnachting<\/a>\u00a0Barn where Tosca slept<\/p>\n

\"Restaurant<\/a>Restaurant in Undeloh where we had a drink<\/p>\n

\"Restaurant<\/a>Noel and me at restaurant in\u00a0Undeloh<\/p>\n

\"SchaapjeRiding a sheep: mehh! Pas de mais!<\/p>\n

\"Luneburger<\/a>Lueneburgerheidschnucke, an old and\u00a0primitive breed of\u00a0sheep<\/p>\n

The boys went\u00a0 to sleep at 9 pm.\u00a0<\/span> Real veterans as they are,\u00a0already having biked from Holland to\u00a0Santiago in one\u00a0run (2000km?)\u00a0and from home non stop to Rome (another 2000 km), to\u00a0mention just a few, so really profies as they are, they\u00a0thought it necessary to go early in the “puce”. <\/span>My first night\u00a0in this new lightweight, single tent. <\/span>Yesterday evening I first worked until 10 pm. <\/span>at my blog, caring for the dog, infrastructuring, sms, telephone etc. And at 10.\u00a0I was ready for the night.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Noel blew the reveille at 6:30. A thousand times damn<\/span>. <\/span>Man,\u00a0are you\u00a0retarded? <\/span>If\u00a0we now start we’ll be<\/span> in Undeloh at 1 p.m. already\u00a0and then? <\/span>The experienced long-distance cyclists did not sleep a wink. <\/span>From the cold. <\/span>Wimps!\u00a0“Ouwe leim<\/span>!” <\/span>(Oldies).
\nWe took a shower\u00a0in the sanitary block<\/span>. <\/span>There was a stove upon which we hung out our wet gear in order to dry, until we noticed after 20 min., the entire bathhouse was\u00a0filled with\u00a0“zjwaam” (smoke). <\/span>We reorganized the stove and stuff, and soon everything was fix und fertig again.
\n<\/span>Dirty, cold weather, something between mist and drizzle. <\/span>According to the veteran bikers Kit Bush\u00a0weather (whatever that may be. Who the fu .. is Kate Bush, I wondered?). <\/span>But I understood that\u00a0that meant\u00a0shit. <\/span>The L\u00fcneburgerheide impressed\u00a0me by\u00a0its\u00a0beauty: beautiful heather landscapes, barns with Heidschnucke (moorland sheep) many wooden farm houses and barns with thatched roofs. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, we saw many disurbed dolmen remains. <\/span>And quite a few burial mounds from the ancient Bronze Age (1600-1200 BC.), The same as in our Vijlenerbos-wood home. <\/span>Again\u00a0many juniper thickets, that in our Limburg region no longer rejuvenate, so are getting rare\u00a0. <\/span>In various forms: hanging shrub, upright cipres shape and everything in between. <\/span>Henk Ms. Hilligers since 2 weeks late, biologist, who got a phd in sheep grazing, in history of sheepherding and effects of the herdwick, has successfully tackled the conservation \/\u00a0restoration of\u00a0the Mergelland sheep breed that I keep, and among others was occupied with redistributing\u00a0\u00a0juniper thickets. I l<\/span>earned a lot from him, had a lot of laughs with him and now, here on the moor, I have many associations with him.
\n<\/span>No\u00ebl and Lee booked a room in a farmhouse. <\/span>The farmer and his wife, both 80 plus, milked 22 cows, drove a tractor Deutz\u00a0from 1968. Their five carriage horses they had just sold. <\/span>Dad came in with the chainsaw in his hand. Holy sh..,<\/span> pretty cool,\u00a0isn’t it.. <\/span>Lei and No\u00ebl checked whether there was a gap between thei r2 \u00a0mattrasses, otherwiser there was a risk that they both would roll to the middle. <\/span>I got a single room just\u00a0for me: a bed with a ceiling right above it. <\/span>Whether\u00a0that was a problem for me? <\/span>Oh no, as long as the ceiling\u00a0 doesn’t fall down. <\/span>As a student I lived so for years, I reassured her. <\/span>I had a shower for me alone. <\/span>Too bad, I’m not getting gepoekeld (miner’s term for washing each other’s back). <\/span>No\u00ebl and Lee appear not to need a shower.\u00a0 They simply\u00a0tap\u00a0the <\/span>sweat\u00a0from their bodies. <\/span>Nutterts! <\/span>(Dirty old men).
\n<\/span>No\u00ebl Lee\u00a0insisted to\u00a0film me sitting\u00a0on\u00a0a sheep. <\/span>O.K., if I can make you happy\u00a0that way. <\/span>Was a French sheep.\u00a0While sitting on it<\/span> that sheep says\u00a0meeeehhh. I answered: pas de mais. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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