Holland to France

Blogs Entry NO. 2

Holland was a great way to start this adventure. We stayed with Chris for our first night celebrating the Santa festival and catching up with his family also meeting some friends at a dinner party in his beautiful home. Fantastic extreme from some of our future meals I imagine. Our next day was a slow starter recovering from Dutch hospitality.

I slept on the couch down stairs and was awoken by Donna and Felix, Chris’s children who where probably up at 5.30am with prezzie FEVER… So I was up early woken by giggle’s and excitement. Sat with Chris and his wife Patricia for a quick breakfast then walked back to our cars to do a bit of shopping in the Haag for supplies and for a couple of bit of equipment I wanted. The most important of those being a tape adaptor which plays mp3’s and my laptop through the stereo. Essential!

So kitted up I went back to find the guys at Chris’s place. For the next stage of our adventure a visit no less than to the New Zealand Embassy. We tapped in the post code to the sat-nav and hit the road. It was on the other side of town in minted street and stunning Embassy building and Sparkie’s friend Phillipa Joy working for the ambassador welcomed us at the electric gates. We had a little tour of the elegant building and the guys sipped their tea and chuckling to ourselves about how we where now on New Zealand territory and how we had gone from France to Belgium to Holland then to New Zealand…. All by car.

Due to a very sad event the ambassadors son had died and they where returning to the embassy to fly home to New Zealand. So we quietly moved across to Phillipa’s home which was great in it’s self and we then tucked into our laptops and updated our web site www.goodkarmadrive.org which our video’s blogs photos and anything else we could think of.

Apparently that nigh I snored to legendary levels so our plan of rising at 5.30 and getting a big drive done was missed by about 5hrs. We instead left the Embassy at about Noon Dutch time…. The weather has been shocking and we have been on the road ever since in strong rain. We breezed through Luxembourg adding another country to our preplaned list. Spent a brief night in Dijon at a hotel as to not soak the tents! Right now I am sat with my Laptop in the passenger seat as Michelle chauffeurs me to my good friends Nolee and Alex in the French Alps for the next stage of our quest!

Love it!!!!