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...

Our last long distance drive in our little black Peugeot 208 was taking us from Hamburg to Utrecht in The Netherlands. The drive was a fairly easy one on the autobahn - hardly any roadworks and reaching speeds of around 155 km/h at times! We stopped for lunch at a rest area where we had difficulty making up our minds about what to eat - there were bistro type options, toasted paninis, and Burger King. No one got Burger King. Crossing the border into Holland, we a...