Saturday, 9 July 2016

Holiday time

We are on a road trip with friends from our UK car club. On Tuesday we drove up to Belgium and spent the night in a lovely hotel in the countryside. I was very impressed by Belgium, many speak English and no one made us feel unwelcome. I had forgotten what customer service was!
On Wednesday our friends from the UK came over using the tunnel and drove up to where we were. We managed to meet on the motorway. 12 Corvettes of different ages caused quite a stir on the motorway. Somehow we managed to keep together driving up to Holland. We spent two nights in Raalte. We visited a Harley Davidson museum which was amazing. He had bikes going back to early last century. We then drove along a dike road which was lovely to a town where we had arranged to park in the town square whilst we had lunch. In the afternoon we visited a Corvette museum that had almost every car since they began. His latest find is an immaculate 1953 model!
The next morning we did a boat trip around a beautiful residential area where cars are not allowed. Even the post is delivered by boat!
Then we drove a long way to Valkenburg for the Corvette Fame event.
Today we left early to park the cars at the event. Today and tomorrow we stay with the show. We leave the cars overnight and security guards have been organized to watch them overnight.
This afternoon some good friends arrived unexpectadly. We saw the car and said it was familiar but could not place it. They are joining our group for dinner tonight.
On Monday morning we start out for home. We plan to go through Luxembourg and a corner of Germany then under Paris and on to our place. We will stop just inside France Monday night.
We are both really enjoying this road trip. It is so far from our normal life. It has been great to have our daughter and son in law to look after things for us. Visiting other European countries makes me realize how wrong France is in trying to stay totally French!
Still no idea what we will do long term.

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