The sky was a bit grey and it looked like it could rain any minute but it held off again for us today! We caught the train from Utrecht to Rotterdam this morning. We were planning on travelling around Rotterdam like locals today. However bike hire was a bit pricey at €10 pp so we used the walking option instead! We started off at the Luchtsingel pedestrian bridge - the world's first crowd funded infrastructure project - a yellow 400 m long pedestrian bridge...

This morning we drove Tim to the airport as he was flying from Amsterdam to Manchester, ready to start his 6 month cricket season there. After we said our farewells it was then time to say farewell to our Peugeot that has been with us for 2.5 months. The car drop off place was about 15 mins from the airport although we made a wrong turn which added on another 10 minutes at least. When we got the car the petrol gauge was pretty much on empty so we wanted to return...

Being a Monday, we decided it was time to go to work while Tim headed off to explore Amsterdam on his own. Our job today was to give our car a little bit of love after taking us around Europe for two and half months! Eva had called up a tyre place in the morning and found a place where we could get our winter tyres off and our summer tyres back on. It was in Utrecht so not too far from where we were staying. We were hoping they would also buy the winter tyres off...

When Calvin felt Dutch ´I feel so Dutch now´, Calvin mused while driving the Dutch countryside. Eddy Christiani was enchanting us with his all time classic Daar bij de waterkant (There at the waterfront), pensionados with exit pants cycled and the tulips blossomed in the early spring sun. It even made me feel like I was part of a Dutch touristic promotion video from the fifties, except for the Asian looking Australian behind the steering wheel. When Cal...

What beautiful weather today - it was so sunny! Eva, Calvin and Kate walked to Utrecht Central Station via the local windmill and dropped in to a wood working shop, Draaj, before taking the train from Utrecht to Amersfoort - only a short 20 minute journey. At the Amersfoort station we hired bikes for €3 each. The challenging bit about the bike for Kate was that the seats were so high (even when adjusted to be at their lowest) so Kate's feet could barely rea...