Tuesday July 17, Fischer Motorhome Service, Elsdorf, Germany

July 17, 2018

Tuesday July 17, Fischer Motorhome Service, Elsdorf, Germany

Leaving Netherlands and into Belgium...

....Then into Germany

It was three countries in three hours with temperatures close to 30 degrees, and the aircon not working properly! And Jilly and I had several confrontations, made worse when I needed an exit off the motorway only to find that it was closed…grrrrr! But we finally made it and a cold beer was very welcome.

Over breakfast I worked out a route that would take us on some lesser more scenic roads and we set off about 10am and the first few hours were fine. It was a great drive through the very pretty countryside of Netherlands and into Belgium where we noticed a different style of houses. We passed some particularly grand mansions, with large gardens. And as always in this very flat country the cycle lanes are everywhere, often on both sides of the road.

But as the temperatures rose, Jilly was not happy with the route I wanted to take and kept rerouting us onto the motorways. In the end, she won and I let her take over and we covered the rest of the drive on motorways, very successfully until the closed exit. I needed to stop at a supermarket and had found an Edeka just off the motorway. Ended up with some very quick Googling while Ian drove and found one at the next town. After a few wrong turns that took us into a residential area we made it and enjoyed pushing the trolley around in the airconditioned store. Another half an hour drive and we arrived at Fischer’s at 4.30.

Went for a walk this evening and spotted a vehicle service centre not far away. On their sign they mentioned Klimaservice, checked their website out when we got back, translated it with Google Translate and they service air-conditioning units. Will see them in the morning and see if they can check Ruakiwi out after we are finished here. With temperatures like they are at the moment, we really need it.

They will start working on the vehicle at 8 in the morning so will have to be organised. After we finish here we are going to our friends, Conny and Hitten, who live just out of Dusseldorf for a few days so probably won’t get much up on the blog for a little while. Not many photos today, just a few drive by ones from the front window!