Maintaining the water outside, and inside as well.
The Dutch are experts at hydraulic engineering. They have performed wonders to win a few spots of land from the sea. We have crossed kilometers of floodgates that impede the water to invade the hectars from which it was drained painstakingly over the years. The same water that produces unique beauty in cities like Dordrecht or Amsterdam, with its canals and little bridges that make you want to stay just one more night…
Has anybody seen our host?
In some cities we stay with people who offer us accomodation through the Internet. It's a brilliant system, but sometimes strange things do happen. Like tonight, when we waited for two hours on the street because our host had forgotten about us! Finally other charitable people from the house saw us on the street and put us up in their flat… thank you Nesrine and Ronoy!
In two days we will leave Belgium, which has impressed us greatly with the beauty of its cities. We strongly recommend visiting Brugge and Gent, pintoresque cities with canals and little ships everywhere, in the style of Amsterdam and Venice.
St-Omer, France
Fleeing from the hunters
“Make sure you get up early and leave, it's hunting day”, the farmer who saw us put up our tent in a small forest in France warned us. Searching for a place to put up our tent when the sun begins to fall is our daily task. We then take smaller and smaller roads until we find a nice place on a hill or tucked away in the forest. It is usually difficult to find a place, since there are houses and fields everywhere.
Today we camp ten meters away from a lake with ducks. So we'd better run tomorrow morning, before they start to shoot at us.
4 countries in one day
This is how far we drove today on our mighty machine which Elke has lovingly baptized “Monster”. We crossed the boarders between Germany, Luxemburg, Belgium and France in only a few hours? with a little trick of course… it's all just next to each other!
We thank our friend Serge for giving us accomodation and a lot of support in Luxemburg.
Widooie, Belgium
We switched to 900cc!
But only for a few days… our friend Vicente lent us a beautiful Yamaha XJ900 in Paris, with which we are doing a spin around France, Belgium and Luxemburg. We enjoy the power and the speed, but we also miss the tranquility of our “little ones”, that allow us to enjoy more fully the countryside around. But let's forget about that for the moment… let's raaaaaace!!
The Dutch are experts at hydraulic engineering. They have performed wonders to win a few spots of land from the sea. We have crossed kilometers of floodgates that impede the water to invade the hectars from which it was drained painstakingly over the years. The same water that produces unique beauty in cities like Dordrecht or Amsterdam, with its canals and little bridges that make you want to stay just one more night…
Has anybody seen our host?
In some cities we stay with people who offer us accomodation through the Internet. It's a brilliant system, but sometimes strange things do happen. Like tonight, when we waited for two hours on the street because our host had forgotten about us! Finally other charitable people from the house saw us on the street and put us up in their flat… thank you Nesrine and Ronoy!
In two days we will leave Belgium, which has impressed us greatly with the beauty of its cities. We strongly recommend visiting Brugge and Gent, pintoresque cities with canals and little ships everywhere, in the style of Amsterdam and Venice.
St-Omer, France
Fleeing from the hunters
“Make sure you get up early and leave, it's hunting day”, the farmer who saw us put up our tent in a small forest in France warned us. Searching for a place to put up our tent when the sun begins to fall is our daily task. We then take smaller and smaller roads until we find a nice place on a hill or tucked away in the forest. It is usually difficult to find a place, since there are houses and fields everywhere.
Today we camp ten meters away from a lake with ducks. So we'd better run tomorrow morning, before they start to shoot at us.
4 countries in one day
This is how far we drove today on our mighty machine which Elke has lovingly baptized “Monster”. We crossed the boarders between Germany, Luxemburg, Belgium and France in only a few hours? with a little trick of course… it's all just next to each other!
We thank our friend Serge for giving us accomodation and a lot of support in Luxemburg.
Widooie, Belgium
We switched to 900cc!
But only for a few days… our friend Vicente lent us a beautiful Yamaha XJ900 in Paris, with which we are doing a spin around France, Belgium and Luxemburg. We enjoy the power and the speed, but we also miss the tranquility of our “little ones”, that allow us to enjoy more fully the countryside around. But let's forget about that for the moment… let's raaaaaace!!
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