{"id":701,"date":"2026-04-30T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/?p=701"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:15:15","slug":"cycling-through-the-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Cycling through the Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nicest moments for cycling in the year is when the tulips come up. Drenthe is not known for the biggest tulip fields (that&#8217;s more in the western part of the Netherlands), however you can find them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2saow4L\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55240210578_34d687912c.jpg\" alt=\"April 29 ride with Tulips\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2saibrJ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55239169012_e458f64488_z.jpg\" alt=\"April 29 ride with Tulips\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took me a while this year to find them. Partially as I&#8217;m rebuilding my cycling routine after last year&#8217;s shoulder problems, but also not every field has tulips every year. So you have to cycle around a bit and keep your eyes open, but when you do find them, the fields look amazing. Long long rows, color by color all the way to the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sap2YB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55240311199_ec54151ccd.jpg\" alt=\"April 29 ride with Tulips\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2s9QTgx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55234038321_1b4f62bb17_z.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thos who know me might see that my bike isn&#8217;t the celeste-colored Bianch of the past 10 years, but there will be a post about my new bike soon \ud83d\ude09 For now it&#8217;s just about cycling and finding tulip-fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2s9QTey\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55234038206_3d5eb61384_z.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2s9Ldjt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55233126847_818a28b7df.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just for a bonus a blossoming tree then:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2s9RCBc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55234184113_1b5784c652_z.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nicest moments for cycling in the year is when the tulips come up. Drenthe is not known for the biggest tulip fields (that&#8217;s more in the western part of the Netherlands), however you can find them. It took me a while this year to find them. Partially as I&#8217;m rebuilding my cycling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,207,254,255,256,249,253,252,250,251,75],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-drenthe","tag-out-and-about","tag-pinarello","tag-pinarello-f5","tag-roadbike","tag-tulip","tag-tulip-fields-cycling","tag-tulipfields","tag-tulips","tag-tulpen","tag-wanderlust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}