Leaving on a jet plane.

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Waiting at the Adelaide Airpport.

Our trip begins, but first we have to get to Europe  which  means a 13 hour flight, a three hour stopover in Dubai and then another 8 hour flight to Amsterdam. It’s something that we have to endure to be able to motorhome in Europe ,and in this case Morocco as well.
This years adventure will begin in Holland as usual as that is where our “Bunyip” lives. (our beloved motor home). From there we will travel through Belgium, France, Spain where  we will catch a ferry to Morocco. We are hoping to spend about 4 weeks in Morocco and after the trip return via a different route. 

As you can see we have brought  along with us our “mini figs”. These are our lego mini me’s that our daughter  Jade has organized. We are hoping that we will get some interesting photos as we take them with us on our adventure.

Hard to believe that this is trip number 9. When we first bought the Bunyip in 2009 we thought  we would like to  do  a few trips and now we are up to our ninth. The Bunyip is still going well but showing signs of aging, it is over 20 years old.

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Enjoying a coffee at Starbuck’s at the Dubai airport.

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Our flight was uneventful but in Amsterdam we had to wait for over a hour to get through passport control. Meanwhile Martin and Ewoud [our cousins] waited patiently for our arrival. 

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Front view of Martins place, he does have the shed as well.
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Jenny and Lori relaxing at Martin’s place.

Martin has sold his last house and has moved about 300 meters to a very, very small house. For one person it has plenty of room and all the necessary facilities. 

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Martin sleeps in the main lounge room, when you see the next photo of the stairs you will understand.
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Very steep stairs leading to the upstairs bedrooms.

The song “Leaving on a jet plane” was written by John Denver and was a hit for “Peter, Paul and Mary” in the late sixties. I must be showing my age!!

Today it is Thursday 6th of September and we have spent the day getting ready for hitting the road tomorrow. We plan to leave early as we have planned to visit a castle on Saturday, more about that in our next blog post.

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This Post Has 6 Comments

  1. rjohnlaidler

    Have a great trip – love the Lego figures!

  2. Michael and Pam

    Looking forward to reading this years adventures.

    Stockholm today,

  3. Mark and Mireille

    Yay! Looking forward to following your adventures…happy and safe travels. Cheers from Mark & Mireille FYI on our iPad the email of your blog has very small writing and huge photos. The actual blog is normal.

  4. Gloria

    Great to see you there safe & sound. Say HI to Martin for us please! Nicole & Ben had a baby girl on Wed 7.05am. Josie Ayla, 6.11Kg and another feisty redhead according to Ben. They came home Friday and are all doing well. Love to you all from Glo & Ro xxx

    1. Nicole Franceschini

      Looking forward to following your adventures, particularly through Morocco – such an amazing country to explore! Oh, and Josie was only 3.11kg – could you imagine carrying and giving birth to a 6kg baby!! 🙀🙀🙀

  5. Charif

    I’m Charif from Tanger

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