The morning begins with a team meeting about a sequel for the temporary forest on the A10 in Amsterdam in June of this year. The question at hand is whether a sequel to the temporary forest could be interesting for Amsterdam and how to organize it. A fascinating question that is not easy to answer. We are going to investigate. Due to the lack of internet I have to leave the meeting early and we drive to Trilport where Willem and Simonne are already waiting at the tree bike to join us. We thank the owner of the location “Le Mouflon d’Or” and start our stage for today, about sixty kilometers to Saint-Jean au Bois, to the north. It is around eleven o’clock and the weather is nice. Sanne also bikes along and Richard accompanies us with the car and batteries. Again we notice that the villages are deserted, few people on the streets at least. Where we see people we speak to them and hand out birthday trees. Again, the reactions are enthusiastic. For example, in Acy-en-Multien we pass by the Mairie where two ladies see the tree and come out enthusiastically. They are super happy with the little tree and Forest Book we give them. It is barely 12:30 when we approach a passing car that gestures to us to cycle with him to his house a hundred meters away and invites us to join him for dinner. We gladly accept the TO, for chance must be harvested here too. In the sunshine in the garden we eat our own brought lunch in a cozy atmosphere. He is a fruit farmer and has at least seven acres of apples that will soon be harvested. How nice it is to fall into a wildly strange family like this and eat together. We take some more pictures and they wave us off, father Patrick with son and daughter. We cycle up and down the gently rolling hills, then through small villages, large-scale open farmland and occasionally through areas of forest and streams. A nice variety, although the roads are actually too much for cars so it doesn’t always feel pleasant to cycle here. The enthusiastic response from the passing cars makes up for a lot. In Crépy-en-Valois we have a drink and hand out little trees. Then it’s another fifteen kilometers to Saint-Jean au Bois. A cute little village indeed completely in the forest with a huge Abbey. And nearby there seems to be a seven hundred and fifty year old oak tree, as old as Amsterdam. At the Abbey, we can pitch the tree bike and the bikes at a resident’s house, which we will pick up tomorrow morning. The five of us drive back to Crépy-en-Valois and have a beer in the sun. We decide to have dinner at home and Richard takes Willem and Simonne back to their car, then come back together to have dinner in the garden of our residence in Sennevieres. A beautiful day of cycling it was again.