Last year there was another episode of the Swamphike, which involves my Dutch hiking friends coming to the UK for an off-season hike. And this year two of them will come here for a big UK tour on bike. And they will come visit! That will be fab. But while they were preparing for their adventure they realised that they couldn't get the bicycle maps they wanted to use directly delivered to their house. The company wasn’t delivering to the EU. So would I be okay to have them sent to me, so I could send them on? Of course I was.
When they arrived I basically just sent them on as they had reached me: in a little box. They had ordered quite many! And there was no way they would all fit through the letterbox.
When the maps got to their house my friends, of course, weren't home. And apparently, no note was left, so by the time they checked where their maps were they were already on their way back to me. Bummer! Fortunately, they safely arrived again, in spite of the tracking app saying they had ended up in ‘Amersfoort, UK’. I then packed them up in two separate envelopes. Each envelope should fit through the letterbox! So this time, they should just get to the intrepid cyclists. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed! It's the humans that should be well-travelled, not so much the maps, at least not unaccompanied …
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