As promised I will try to blog every day of our
holiday that started yesterday evening, with some photos if possible. The drive
to the ferry was fairly uneventful, although we were forced to raise the roof
on the Mini because of the rain. The challenge was packing enough for four
weeks in a very small car boot. Some of us rose to the challenge better than
others, how many shoes is it Marion?
The ferry crossing from Hull to Rotterdam was
uneventful the gentle hum of the ships engines lulling us to sleep. We emerged
from the bowels of the ferry with about two hundred motorbikes into a lovely
sunny day. The roof was immediately lowered and we were quickly out of
industrialised Rotterdam into the countryside of Zeeland. By 10:30 we had met our
great friends Hans & Mirjam. Time for a long catch-up.
Mirjam had
thoughtfully found a quilt exhibition in the nearby town of Groes. While the
ladies visited the exhibition, while I wandered with Hans round the lovely
moated town putting the world to rights. The weather was just perfect.
We then drove a short distance to the little river
port town of Veere.
This was a picture post card town where we took the
opportunity to sample the local Witte beer. It went down a treat sat in the
sunshine.
The landscape here is very flat, a lot of it below sea
level. Roads cross inland seas and the North Sea by means of very long bridges.
There are also the enormous gates that will hold back the North Sea in the
event of flood conditions. Tomorrow we are going to visit an exhibition about
this. So it was back to the hotel for a relaxed dinner and a quick look at the
Champions League score.
A great start to the holiday!
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