Midsummer winter - 18th-20th June
For the next two days I travelled through a landscape of sand dunes and pine forest. The forest was planted over a hundred years ago to stabilise the dunes, which have a habit of moving around if left to their own devices. The weather remained unseasonably cold, but at least it didn’t rain. Bunkers overlooking the road Suspected WW2 concrete Holiday village On this part of the coast the remains of the Second World War are everywhere. Bunkers nestle in the dunes, overlooking the road and the sea. Where there aren’t bunkers there are vast holiday villages, often linked by stretches of concrete track that must also be remnants of the war. At Lokken the NSCR takes to the beach for 14km, but I’d had more than enough sand coating my bike in the last few days, so I kept to the road past a famous sand-engulfed lighthouse, through farmland and forest and eventually into the teeth of a bitter NW wind as I headed back to the coast and cam...