Belgium Holland and Germany

Friday 2^nd November 

Belgium

We hardly have any plans (and don't really like to make them) but we have already had to make a change as we had a text saying our Dover Calais DFDS ferry was cancelled and would now be two hours later. We got to Dover at the original time & asked if we could go instead to Dunkirk as there was an earlier sailing. With the hour time difference we didn't get to France until 7pm and of course it had started raining so we decided to only drive on for 30 miles to the nice small town of Veurne in Belgium where we have stayed a few times next to the small Marina. As usual there were another half dozen campervans there, and now we were out of France it had even stopped raining. We could still pick up BBC Radio 5 Live on medium wave so managed to keep up with the Brighton v Leeds match which finally ended in a 2-2 draw. We have brought an inflateable seagull with us which we found at the end of the Blackpool v Brighton match last Saturday, it's now our substitute pet, and will no doubt appear in some photo's soon (if Gill doesn't stab it!).

Saturday 3^rd November 

Belgium Holland and Germany in one day.

Planned a long day today driving, and driving it has certainly been, mostly heavy rain, all day for virtually all of the 389 miles today. Most fields in Belgium were semi flooded with lots of bedraggled cattle and horses standing around. We very briefly passed through Holland and then the rains really started to come down. German Motorways are scary even in the driest weather due to the speeds that many cars go at, they just appear in your rear view mirror from nowhere. Even the terrible conditions don't seem to deter them, I am surprised there aren't more pile-ups.

We abandoned driving soon after dark as there was no way we would reach our planned destination which was another 250kms. We have found a very busy free Stellplatz at Bettingen close to the motorway where we will spend the night in the company of at least 30 other motorhomes. It's very quiet though apart from the rain on the roof, so far we haven't set foot outside the van.