The Leaving Of It All

So we Had a great interview at the George Lamb show, said our piece promoted ourselves thoroughly and drove off to the sunset…. Cruising around the M25 toyed with the idea of setting up the tents before dark just out side the M25?….. After some swift discussions decided that was shockingly lame, and we pushed on to the ferry and to Dunkirk…..

A rainbow showed it’s self over our road down to Dover, which for me is a great sign. I just like that stuff…. Then when we went to find our ferry price’s I stepped out of the ferry centre to see a stunning sun set and hit the video diary….

The ferry was fairly epic in its self and had a colossal car deck which the Discovery’s or disco’s as we like to call them, sat at the front…… we wandered up to the deck… eventually I found the open deck where I stood looking at the white cliff’s in true poetic form… getting a bit of an understanding of how immense this dream and journey is! Thinking about what it’s going to take to get to India by two cars…

So we pull off the ferry at Dunkirk and set up the sat-nav aiming us to Holland the Haag and to our good friend Chris….. the plan at this stage was to find somewhere to eat and somewhere to sleep before we get to Chris…. Belgium in winter flat and grey looking and noticeable how few people where around…. We pulled up in a amazing church town market square wandered in to a café which was showing signs of life and they directed us onward as it was the end of their day……

In the next town we pulled up alongside a neon pizzeria sign and took our chances…. Great place, friendly bar staff and good food… at the end we asked advice about finding somewhere to set up our roof tents…. And the guy said no problem put them up behind the restaurant….. tents went up and we slept very well…… day one done1

I awoke early and went for a walk to get a feel for the place…… in a lot of ways I felt the same as I had the night before winter did not suit this town not many people and fairly grey feel to it….

On the road again and drove about 300m to Chris’s…. giving us time to set up sort out the gear and get a feel for uploading downloading and reloading the Disco’s and laptop’s

It just so happened that it is also the time for our Dutch friend’s to celebrate the arrival of Saint Nicolas in Dutch style on the 5^th of December he visit Holland and fills the kids shoes with gift’s and prezzie’s…. So it was great to be with Chris’s friend’s and family celebrate this day…… and we had our first good karma drive party in style till the early hour’s.

Next day

Would you believe invited to the New Zealand Embassy….. who knows what’s next? Love it!!!!!!!