Tour de France 2015: Stage Two

As I mentioned in my previous post, I made the journey up to Holland for the start of the 2015 Tour de France. Instead of driving, I chose to travel those four days on a road bike. The first stage in Utrecht proved to be a long one, with almost 200kms having to be peddled in the morning just to reach the city. On this second stage I was determined to follow the tour route as closely as possible, to get myself somewhere near the finish along the North Sea coastline.Unfortunately the coastline proved to be as inhospitable as you’d expect, with the Tour de France peloton being torn to pieces later in the day. As a lone rider, things were not looking good as I battled against an out of this world crosswind. With all of my electronic navigation devices completely out of batteries and my only map drenched by rain, I decided to catch the Tour just as it entered Stellendam, which allowed me to make a quick-ish exit on may route down to Antwerp for Stage 3.All in all, it was another big day. 185km cycled, with my final destination still a good 50km away from where I wanted to be. The Dutch city of Bergen Op Zoom provided a good nights rest before my next days transfer to the diamond encrusted Antwerp. Check out the previous stage.