We left our very well designed aire de camping car in Troyes soon after 09:00 and set the controls for Bourges. It’s a Sunday so driving was easy, light traffic and no trucks. We soon came across a Super-U which…

We arrived sur le continent  on 24th May. It is now 1st June and it has rained every day that we’ve been here. I was very lucky in the Netherlands in that it didn’t rain where Antonio and I were…

We’d spent a comfortable night in Frodo off-grid in the parking area provided by the Belgian Brasserie des Fagnes. We got ourselves ready in a leisurely manner as the rain came down yet again. It has actually rained at least…

Our overnight stop at Bunnik would best be described as adequate, once we found a pitch that was not waterlogged. It’s not the sort of place I’d want to spend any more time so Darwin knows what the seasonals did…

I’m quite sure it wasn’t what Mark Knopfler had in mind when he penned his early Dire Straits song but there are so-called Dutch Waterlines and we were heading down to one of ‘em. The Dutch Waterlines are a 200kms…

One of Francine’s former colleagues is a Dutch guy living in Hilversum. We have visited him and his wife a couple of times at their house. This time, they planned to make the 90-minute trip up to Havelte so we…

Back came Antonio at 10:00 to collect me to go in search of the last of the five European White-faced Darters. I get a bit disoriented about the direction we are driving in from Jelly’s Hoeve but, after half an…

As I mentioned previously, the Netherlands is home to all five species of White-faced Darters that occur in Europe. My first target of the Irish Damselfly (Coenagrion lunulatum) having been met, Antonio had set himself another goal: show me all…

We have augmented Frodo with a pair of e-bikes [shock, horror]. On Sunday we would meet Antonio again but today we were on our own. Just as well ‘cos we needed some more shopping. With Frodo comfortable pitched, out came…

We were lucky enough to be one of the early ones to disembark in the Hook of Holland, so we got through immigration very swiftly and were on the road by about 08:30 heading for Havelte, where we were booked…