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...

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...

We had a relatively short drive today from Odense to Hamburg. We stopped at a petrol station cafe on the way and had goulash soup for lunch. There were loads of road works for the last 1.5 hours of the journey so it took a lot longer than it needed to! Our AirBnB host had totally forgotten we were arriving today (he thought we were arriving tomorrow) so we called him when we arrived at the apartment, after not hearing back from him earlier in the day. He felt so ...

We drove from Gothenburg, Sweden to Odense, Denmark today. It was a fairly costly drive on the Danish side with a $70 and then a $45 toll and was an expensive introduction to the country for Tim. Fortunately we stopped off for lunch before we left Sweden! We went to Galleria Center Syd just off the highway. There was a little Mexican restaurant in there which offered a lunch buffet for $12 - Kate and Calvin seized the opportunity to have nachos, burritos, noodles...