The weather forecast said: “Rainy conditions will continue all day.
Wind gusts up to 83 km/h are making the temperature feel like -3°.” Since our route would take us along the coast we knew that we would be exposed to the full force of the wind and that the wind chill factor would be very uncomfortable.
We decided to ride to the nearest railway station, Nykøbing Sj St., a distance of 9 kms in the wind and rain.
The train arrived soon after we had ridden onto the platform. A railway worker told Sean that tickets were outside. Some moments passed before he spied the kiosk on the now empty station. The self-service ticket machine switched quickly to English and two seniors and two bikes entered but how to pay. Frustration and two further attempts proved useless. The train conductor stood in the rain waiting for us then wandered over to us and asked if we were having trouble. He said that it plays up and told us to get on the train. He held the door open and lifted in the back of Helen’s bike.
In the comfort of the train, Helen confessed that her leggings were saturated and that her legs had been freezing on the bike. In her typical fashion she wrote it off as being no different to taking an ice bath and that her legs felt the better for it.
The train trip was only one hour long and arriving at Holbæk station it took little navigation to figure out the route to our hotel.
The windy rainy weather continued into the evening.
