This was another day of long train journeys. I had already bought the tickets and bike reservations for the German part of the journey. The first train was the 1142 from the enormous Frankfurt Hbf to Wuppertal (famous for its 100 year old monorail above the river), arriving at 1440. Next was the 1525 from Wuppertal to Venlo, just over the border in the Netherlands, arriving 1656. I had been to Venlo a couple of years before with friends from Leeds on a cycling trip, so I knew it was relatively easy to travel with a bike on Dutch trains (as long as the station is staffed - if not it's practically impossible as the ticket machines don't accept credit cards!). In this case Venlo station was staffed, so no problem, and I caught the 1720 train direct to Den Haag Centraal, arriving 1937, nearly eight hours after I had left Frankfurt. A short cycle ride from there took me to my sister's house in Statenkwartier, where it was great to be able to relax and chat over a lovely meal.