We hopped over to the island Texel today. We took our bikes across on the ferry and ended up biking through most of the southern half of the island. The whole western coast is a national park full of dunes and trees which was quite pretty. Antony really likes Texels beer so we toured their brewery and got samples of the beer. I've never really drank before coming here and I can't say it's my favorite beverage but that's okay. According to Antony, Texels beer is quite exceptional. I did notice their alcohol percentage is rather high, it was between 5 and 10% for each different type of beer. The ride up the island was really nice, the ride down... Not so much. It was VERY windy and rainy. The GPS calculated our route would take 23 minutes but it took us just over an hour instead. But we made it!

 It smelled and looked like these sheep were eating onions

 Oh I forgot to put this part of the day into the blog. We missed our ferry- we pulled up just as it was pulling out- so we had an hour to kill in Den Helder. There was a Navy Museum which was closed but they had all these outside to look at.
Above is a memorial.

 The bridge

 Rear of the aubmarine

 Front of the submarine

 Three different types of windmills

This roof was tile with straw, I thought it looked kinda cool