Wed 22nd April. s'Gravendeel to Dormagen (Germany) We left Martin's place at 8.30am and went to the local supermarket to get some supplies then drove to Puttershoek to say our goodbyes to Jeanette and Anne at the Jan Snel Garage. So at 10.am we finally headed off on our journey. We headed south towards Eindhoven and then set our course in the direction of Nuremburg. We bypassed Dusseldorf and headed for a camper stop at a place called Dormagen. This turned...

We are finally ready to leave Holland. After our two small trips in Holland we have modified and packed the camper. We have installed an inverter to charge our lap top and speakers. We have bought a new gas bottle which can be filled up at service stations. Very easy and cheap to fill, but the gas bottle was very expensive. We went to the [rommel markt] church thrift shop here in s,Gravendeel. There we bought a lot of bits and pieces, curtains,extra sheets, mop, ...

We had a quiet Sunday morning doing a few things to the camper and then decided to go for a drive to do a bit of sightseeing in Willemstad and fill up the new gas bottle. The sun was shining when we left and looked like being a nice afternoon but as we drove the clouds came over thickly and it started to get cold. We arrived at Willemstadt and found that a lot of other people had decided on making it their destination as well. It was busy, with lots of boats and ...

13/4 We decided to leave Martin's after lunch to drive across The Netherlands towards De Lutte near the German border. We had an appointment to visit Ewout's uncle there the next day so thought it would be good to take our time and spend the night somewhere on the way. We found a nice place called Zutphen where we found a nice free camping place behind the local Police station. We parked right next to a lake and had a lovely view of ducks and old buildings. 14/4...

We set off on Friday night to try out our camper. We drove north not really having any idea where we would go. We picked out a free camping spot in the book we have and set our Tom Tom with the Gps co-ordinates of Velsen. (this was a first for us so wasn't sure if it would work) We arrived at a small beachside carpark next to a restaurant overlooking a major harbour. The carpark was pretty full but we managed to squeeze inbetween 2 other campers. We had a view al...