The Netherlands is a great country to walk in: an abundance of bike lanes, footpaths, hiking trails and the kind of landscape you don't get to see anywhere else.
And then there was Gouda...
I really regret not being able to speak the language, not because you don't get by--virtually everybody speaks either German or English or both, is extremely helpful and gives excellent directions--but because I would really like to know what the comments were that accompanied the chuckling and nodding at the guy with laundry drying on his rucksack...
I also met my first Irish person since starting the walk! Wohoo! Not far now.
And tomorrow: England.