A bright and sunny morning at last. There is a long queue at the service point and we are behind a fastidious Frenchman with a small bore hose that takes ages to fill his tank. Just when we think he’s finished his wife passes out a dozen plastic water bottles to fill. We’re finally on the road at 11:30, driving alongside the river and cycle route we walked back on yesterday, and past the entrance to Kinderdijk. Again it’s crowded with a rivercruiser moo...

Heavy rain again through the night but once we are up it eases off. We are all ready to leave around 10:15. As we drive away from the camperstop some fields are waterlogged. The motorway is very busy, long convoys of trucks and streams of cars as we make the hour long drive to Alblasserdam and check in to the waterside parking area. After a quick coffee we take the short walk to the waterbus station and watch barges steaming past while we wait for our boat to...

After a quiet restful day on site again yesterday we awake to rain, take things slowly and set off around 11:00. The route we planned takes us through Oosterbeek and the edge of Arnhem and over the motorway bridge which gives us views of the famous John Frost Bridge, scene of the repelled allied landings in 1944, up river. Because Arnhem has low emmission zones the detour to cross over ‘a Bridge Too Far’ would be longer than we want. Soon after leaving Arn...

Yesterday we agreed we would do our own things today. Nick W was padre to the Devon and Dorset Light Infantry, has a significant and personal interest in the Battle of Arnhem and wants to explore the museums, cemetery and monuments dedicated to its history. They set off on the bike mid morning. We had considered trying to park in the town, but with it being a national celebration day and with us not having the same level of interest, we decide we’d prefer a ...

From the initial blurb we all thought Hetloo Palace would be a good place to visit; a former royal hunting lodge with gardens and carriage.motor museum. But we discover the palace is closed for renovation and the gardens are only partly accessible so we agree to abandon the visit. First we need shopping and LPG, both available in Vasen, before starting out on a scenic route south through dense forest with deer signs and some significant hills as this is part of ...