Two men on a Dike

A Good nights sleep was had Stayokay hotel in Egmond. Clean, good bar(!). Reasonable and very largely portioned food, good breakfast all for 100 e .
We headed off in not quite buy almost Bad-ass weather wearing waterproofs and shoecovers. We passed Alkmaar with hardly a sideways glance at the Beer museum (yes it was open) but the time had not yet come for malted rejuvenating beverages.  Passed some absolutely massive dunes at Camperduin - got lost a few times - it is really not very easy to follow the route with its numerous 90*  unmarked turnings. So in spite of our making 17-18 mph on the straight our average stays a disappointing 13.7 mph (Advice - don't believe that fully laden on an unknown route can do more!).
We reached the Dike across the Waddenzee. By now the weather was dry thanks to the wind being northeasterly (and guess where we were going!!!). Approx 20 miles of straight road across the massive dike - and we did not get lost once! We did have a heated discussion as to whether we should turn back to Stayokay with our room key. The lawyer convinced me that prosecution was unlikely and we pressed on (Although the barriers on the bridge came down just behind us - were they trying to " cut us off at the pass"?? On the northside we celebrated our arrival in Zurich which unbeknownst to us is not in Switzerland but in north Holland. We had some great pancakes and a couple of pints of Amstel lager at hotel The Stoneman. A certainly hit aempty spot but by then we had done about 60 miles since breakfast. We pressed on through very pretty Harlingen and lots of other pretty villages on and off (mostly!!!) off our planned route. We made it to pretty Holwerd where the landlord at our chosen hotel waited at one part of town and we at the other. Then he drove east and we drove west until we finally met up - and he was certainly not easy to miss (built a bit like Obelix). By then we had done 99 miles and burnt up about 400 KCal . We replaced our soiled garments and was by Obelix taken to a local restaurant where the double, tripleand quadruple    Trappist beers  from Dutch brewery La Trappe  are soon filling our table. Espec the Quadruple is an absolute delight.
Tomorrow we aim for the German border - the weather forecast is "favourable" i.e not as wet as other parts of Holland.
And how is the Fixie ? Absolutely great although there was a time on the Dike where my legs were crying out for a bit of freewheeling -but it was nothing that pancakes and beer(s) could not cure!
And it did!!!