Back in Europe

8th August , 2019 , Netherlands.

Staying with Martin

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Still don’t get the hang of taking a selfie. Adelaide airport departure lounge.
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Our plane that took us from Dubai to Amsterdam.

Back in the Netherlands

It has been nearly two years and we are back in the Netherlands. After an uneventful flight we arrived in Amsterdam at 1.00pm. Martin and Ewoud (my cousins) picked us up at the airport and drove us back to s’Gravendeel to be reunited with our beloved motorhome “the Bunyip”. We spent a few hours sorting our stuff but jetlag overcame us and we were in bed before 8.00.

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9th August, staying at Martin’s , s’Gravendeel, Netherlands

Dordrecht

We spent the morning sorting “stuff” for going on our trip. Not very exciting so we decided to take a break and go into Dordrecht. It is the city that I was born in and also market day. Our mission was to get a SIM card for our phones with some data for our trip and also to have some of the local food. On both counts we were successful.

Dordrecht, Netherlands
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Vissers our favourite place for getting poffertjies.
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In the market we ordered a bag of kibberling. Small pieces of fried fish.
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Couldn’t go past the goats cheese.
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View of one of the canals of Dordrecht.
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Delicious (lekker) poffertjies. Dutch small pancakes with lots of butter and icing sugar.

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This pan has made a few poffertjies in its day.
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Of course we are in the Netherlands as we have a rainy day.

Nearly ready and a few frustrations.

In the a afternoon we have nearly finished packing and ready to go. Some things have not gone to plan. I did not bring a computer this trip and will be doing everything on a tablet. That sounded all good until the battery did some strange thing and went flat in record time. It did not want to fire up until I put some charge in it. Now it’s working fine. The camera I charged fully before we left was totally flat when I tried to use it, very strange. My credit travel card also did not want to work on the pin number that I had saved. Going on the internet it told me I was using the wrong pin number. The next thing to go wrong was that I am sure that I left the Tom Tom at Martin’s the last time we were there. But after an extensive search it is nowhere to be found. We will have to rely on our tablet for navigation. A lot of strange things all happening at once.

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It’s a bit messy, but by the end of the day we are set to go.

Martin has moved house.

Since we were here last Martin has moved house. A nice house in a very quiet part of s’Gravendeel. It’s only about 1.4 kilometers from his old house. Below is a photo of the view from his back window. Tomorrow we head of to visit our friends in Winkel, north of Amsterdam.

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