Bikes & Shipping

Still having a few challenges getting the bike off the boat. I think these damned BMWs like the sea air! I am not surprised, such an enormous port facility. It goes on for miles and miles. I will post some pictures of the Antwerp dockyards when I can get an internet cafe that allows USB uploads. It is truely amazing (emphasis on the "maze" part). Candidly, I would be more concerned if not for the fact that there has been raining cats and dogs since I arived and would have been pretty unpleasant camping and riding in this stuff.

As a fall´back, I rented a Citreon C1 to drive around northern Germany, Belgium and Luxembourgh in. It is a cute little thing with an engine about 1/2 the size of the BMW's. Still, goes like stink when you are going downhill,there is a stiff wind behind you and a big black Mercedes is on your bumper... Yeeehaa! I feel like a cartoon character! Gripping the steering wheel - eyes bloodshot and bulging - would have hair streaming out both sides of the car (the car is so small that this is technically very feasible) but alas, my long strands were surrendered to a different breeze years ago and never came back. Most of their friends left my scalp in sympathy. Anyway, need to make the best of things. I am in a really iteresting part of the world and I want to absorb every minute of it.