Roadtrip!!!!

For Easter I went on a roadtrip with Paul and Danny. We left Thursday night and caught the ferry from Dover over to Dunkerque in France. Remember to rollover the pics for descriptions, I've even linked a couple of the places to Google Maps so you can see exactly where we were - looked for underlined place names.

This was how the trip looked:


After staying the night in Dunkerque we headed north to Brugge. Unfortunately the weather was a bit damp so we spent most the time in a cafe eating mussels and drinking Belgian beer. Great beer by the way. Those Belgians certainly know how to brew.

Besides the weather Brugge was a really nice little town, with lots of old buildings and cobbled stone paths and also paved stone paths that were specially made for cyclists. Where you would receive a hefty dose of abuse if you were found walking on when a bike was coming. Here's Brugge:








On the road to Maasland:


We finished up Good Friday at Paul's Oma's place in Maasland(Netherlands)which is where we were staying and also where the 4 boxes we were transporting back to London resided.




Saturday we drove into Amsterdam to see the sights. Most of the time was just spent wandering around, window shopping. However when I say window shopping in a certain area almost all of the shops it seemed sold lingerie and the manequins were incredibly lifelike. So much so they that it they moved and winked and made other intriguing gestures that successfully managed to lure men into the shops. I'm guessing it must have been their wife's birthdays or something and they were buying her something special. Anyway, besides window shopping we saw some canals, and some bikes, and some more canals and some more bikes and even some canals. Thankfully the weather was quite nice so we were able to just wander around and look at things. These are some of the things we looked at:













Driving pics:






Easter Sunday in Maasland:


Paul was spending the day with his Oma and some other family so Danny and I headed off to explore. We found ourselves in a town called Delft, which is of some historical significance. Of note was the fact that the royal family are buried there, well the dead ones are anyway.






After Delft we headed to Den Haag which was one the beach, after eventually finding out way through the city we made it to what was quite a reasonable looking beach. After a little wander we stopped and had lunch at a very funky beach cafe on the beach - here - zoom out to see the beach.







Like any good holiday it always has to end so here are some shots of the trip home: