The following day, Carlin and I had another walking adventure. Jimmy ran from home as part of his marathon training to meet us in Schiedam. He wasn’t with us as we walked from the train station and spotted this tall windmill...
…ruins of the keep from Castle Mathenesse built in 1262...
…and the lovely old city hall built in 1606 with the double staircase added in 1718.
I couldn’t resist taking Carlin to see the library.
It was closed, but one of the employees let us in for a quick look.
We settled down at the Post Schiedam, the old post office transformed into a cocktail bar.
We were really impressed with their homemade bread and dips as well as the vegetarian bitterballen.
Jimmy was thrilled that we had some food left and had a carafe of water waiting for him after running 18.5 miles (30K).
He was clearly a glutton for punishment since after running so far, he then walked 5 miles (8K) with us.
We passed several places we’d like to come back to explore, including the Jenever Museum and this chocolate factory.
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