Waking up in Wijk bij Duurstede we will bike to Arnhem.  We spent breakfast motoring up the Nederrijn to locks and some impressive weirs.  The weirs can change the direction and amount of water going to either the Rhine or the Ij.  Once on the bikes we went into a nearby town with a huge castle and moat.  The town is Amerongen.  This was the place that the German King fled after the first world war.  It now started to rain.  First of the trip.  Bike into the Veluwe, a national park.  We stopped at a military cemetery for Dutch soldiers from WWII.  We learned that the country has a Memorial Day on May 4th and a Liberation Day on May 5th.  Then on past pasture land and an old brick factory.  Bricks, bricks bricks everywhere.  The roads, the buildings even the bike paths are brick.  They get the clay from the rivers.  For the roads, the lifespan of a brick road is some 200 years.  Also, if they have to be dug up, the bricks can be reused or put back onto the road, a savings of material costs.  Continuing on, we were on paved bike paths which were narrow but next to a two rut dirt road used by farm machinery.  Bikes have a real high place in this country.  We stopped at an old castle for a beer break then back to the Angeline.