We were up & on the road fairly early’ish to drive the 20 miles to Den Helder & secure a spot at the Yacht Werf Willemsoord. We didn’t have a plan B at this point. However we got a space, we timed it just right as several vehicles had left, by 12 noon the “VOL’ sign (full) was put up. We opted to spend two nights as we wanted to take the ferry over to Texel. The first day, G went to the Naval Museum located right next to where we were staying & spent a few hours there. Popped in to the City for a quick look around & it started to rain! We headed back to the van to escape from it.
The next day we took the ferry over to Texel! It is the largest & most populated island of the West Frisian Islands & located in the Wadden Sea. For the bargain price of £10 we got a return ticket for the two of us with our bikes. We followed the coast cycle path from T Horntje to Oudeschild then on to Oosterend where we stopped for refreshments at one of the small bars there. We had stopped earlier on for a small picnic overlooking the Wadden Sea, but it was blowing a hooley & pretty cold. We then headed to one of the main towns Den Burg, where we had a look around some of the independent shops before setting off back to catch the ferry. A very enjoyable & tiring day & reckon we clocked up around 19.6 miles on our trusty bikes (only really used the boost to help us on the way back to the ferry as cycling in to the very strong wind). Would love to return to the island with “The Ranch” & spent more time exploring.
