-We took back roads from Brussels to the Netherlands. We passed a town center that was about half an acre which was full of Daffodils. Now we're on a bumpy road between farms.
-In Bruges we climbed the Belfry and heard the bells playing from the top. (It was loud!) There were good views worth the four euros. (It was also a museum.)
The view from the tower. Bruges in all its glory!Other than that I spent 2.50 for breakfast, one euro for a Belgian waffle, and two euros for a dinner of bread, cold chicken, and cheese.
-The camp was closed near Bruges so we're going to the Netherlands tonight.(Eek!)
-31/3 Ack! That was a bad idea! We got in to Amsterdam around 11 pm. Of course there were no camp grounds and no cheap hostels. So we decided to sleep in the van. two hours later we left again. I asked the driver to pull over half an hour later because driving was pointless at that time. (As you might tell, I was a bit grumpy at this point!) We slept util 5 then went to find a camp site. We got in at 9 15 and then, surprisingly maybe, had a great day! We ended up in a campsite which was a five minute walk from a lovely, sandy beach, and was also near Den Haag.
We went shopping in Den Haag for lunch and dinner foods. We then went to the beach and had frites and ice cream. (By the way, frites are fries. But frites originated in Belgium and, in my opinion, are tastiest by the beach there.) Then we had lunch and took glorious showers. (Remember that we had been wearing the same clothes from Sunday morning until Tuesday afternoon. Ick!) Afterward, we strolled to a cafe on the beach and had amazing cokes. They tasted better, somehow, than cokes from other countries. They had the perfect amount of fizz to complement the sugary dark-amber flavor of the cola.
Dinner at Den Haag. It was lovely to eat outside!
We came back and had dinner (bratwurst made with real intestine(!) and beans with Focaccia bread) and cleaned up. Finally Tina, Madeline, and I went to watch the sunset over the North Sea. Cool! It as grand, and I'm very tired now.
The sunset.Here are some figures:
-Price for camp(2 nights)= 9 euros!
-Price for lunch = 2 euros
Price for dinner = 1 euro
Price for frites & coke = 3.60
Not bad!
Wait...you pull into Amsterdam, can't find a place to stay, decide to sleep in the van, start driving a couple hours later--to where? Were the cokes better than the ones in Mexico in the glass bottles, imbibed at a construction site where people were building houses for the underprivileged? Huh? Huh?
ReplyDeleteWell gosh when you put it that way... This was tasty in a posh perfect-fizz-etc. way whereas that was perfect in a hokey-pete-i-am-parched-and-this-is-perfect-and-there-could-never-be-anything-better-etc. way
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