Last Thursday I went off and biked all the way to Hasselt to friends of mine. After spending the night in their home I continued eastwards through "bike paradise Limburg" to the little village of Kessenich close to the river Maas which at that place separates Belgium from the Netherlands. My goal was my very good friend and her Chinese husband who just had a baby girl. It was just lovely! They normally live in China so it was wonderful to see them. Yesterday I eventually could not keep myself from the foolish adventure of biking all the way back to Leuven in one row: 116 km (about 72 miles) slightly uphill and with the western wind in my face... So I'm quite tired now.