May 4 - Texel to Middleburg to Amsterdam

Sunday
Trudy served us a very special fruit bowl for breakfast because of my being sick. I couldn't eat too much else.
We left Den Burg and biked back to the ferry going back to Den Helder. We got there just as the ferry was loading. We biked to the railroad station in Den Helder. It was just as we remembered it from 2001. We got information about the train to Middleburg, where we have to return our bikes today. We had to wait for Amsterdam to get information about the train to Munich. We don't need reservations for this ICE train.
It was hard to get to Middleburg. It is out on the corner of Holland, and across several dikes that don't have trains on them. We were worried that the bike station might not be open, but it was. We had a bit of a communication problem, with the bike guy thinking we wanted the bikes for another week and not wanting to give us back our deposit, but we got it straightened out.
We trained back to Amsterdam planning to go to Enkuesin and the open air museum there, and our hosts in that town. However, I was getting very sick -- disoriented and couldn't walk straight. We decided that we had to find a place to stay in Amsterdam. The only lodging we could find was at the Sheridan Hotel at the airport train station. It was very expensive, but I could lay down and sleep. Verle was pretty concerned about me. We feel bad that we couldn't let our hosts know our change of plans.