Today is the last day with the family. It will be sad to say goodby. Again it was raining and a bit cool for our trip to Eindhoven. Tom Tom had a problem with directions to getting us into the city as the roads had changed but we eventually made it. Tom Tom is Dutch and with the updated software it still got lost. I am going to visit a very special lady, Tante Marietje. She is my dad's only sister. She grew up looking after all her brothers. Boys were very ...

June 4 2014 We started the day with continual rain. It was quite crowded in the camper with six of us. We finally got organised and made the hour and a quarter trip to Dordrecht, the birthplace and home of my mother. We met Hans my cousin at his home in Dordrecht. His mother and my mother were sisters and his father and my father were brothers so we have exactly the same heritage. That is probably why he looks so much like my brother. Alice, his wife, and Hans we...

June 3 2014 Today is one of three special days with my family in the Netherlands. A lot is written about my experiences but John as well as Trevor, Dee, Paul and Pat have learnt a lot about my heritage. We travelled to Middelaar to visit my dad's side of the family. Mary, my cousin lives next door to the home my father grew up in. The family home was initially half house and half barn but over the years it has been converted into two homes. The Heikantseweg has...

Today we got up early as we took the ferry across the English Channel to Dunkirk in France. The weather was very overcast but the channel was calm so the trip was very smooth. We were at the ferry terminal at 8.45am and the weather looked pretty bleak. The trip took about 2hrs. We had breakfast on-board and enjoyed the view outside on the back deck. The weather was clearing as we approached France. We also had to move the clock forward 1 hour. The forecast for So...