I love stepping back and seeing myself or my bicycle just dwarfed by the area it sits in, as if to say this tiny machine can overcome these endless expanses. I can’t help when seeing these settings but think of how this relatively uncomplicated machine could carry me around the world if I wished. I have come to think of this bicycle as my personal expression of freedom.
The more I contemplate what I do and why I do it the reason always seems to come back to freedom. That intense and very specific feeling of freedom, the kind where you can feel it through your whole body. England has been good for that.
This what many many miles of the English country side have looked like. These fields filled with little white flowers are my favorite type, I love the simplicity of their beauty. I think dreamy might be the right word, I wanted to nap here but with no shade I’d roast like the very un-tan white boy I am.
Sometimes I get lucky and find just the most incredible side roads that weave through the country with little or no traffic. 
The two people you see above were both photographed in the city you see below, Cromer. Cromer was one of my favorite cities yet, it is so classically European feeling and set right on the water. I ended up resting here for a whole day and sleeping on the beach, I am glad I did because it really gave me the opportunity to experience the city and people instead of just seeing it. 
I have never seen cobble stone used so extensively before. Here in the South East UK it seems like they use it for everything, from streets to churches(which literally every town seems to have!) to walls to houses. But then again I haven’t seen a whole lot of big rocks either so that may explain it
After leaving Cromer I headed south to Norwich a middle sized city with “a church for everyday of the year” as I was told. After doing the hopelessly lost tourist thing for a while found myself on a park bench next to another Englishman who told me I should go to Amsterdam and watch the WC final. I thought that was a pretty good idea so here I am, in Amsterdam blogging about the UK. Tonight is the Final and 50-100k people are expected in the main square to watch the game so of course I will be there. After that I have no idea where I will head…
So expect the next post to be all about Holland and my new cycle touring friend!
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