2018-07-12, Vacation 2018 - Day 3, Part 2: Finally Reaching Brügge (Bruges)

As stated in the previous Vacation 2018 post, more random piccies from our journey towards Brügge are due.

The Ghentpoort (Ghent Gate) of Brügge.

Better pic.

And this pic must be this tower.

Before we reached the camping site below, we had tried our luck at another one - and I have never experienced such a behaviour from a camp warden as we were met with there. Luckily for her, I do not remember the name of the site, otherwise ...

We arrived from a direction where the sign at the gate was not visible, entered the driveway and got out to see if they could accomodate us. We found that they had some kind of electronic booking and check-in system, and we did not get very far with that. After a while a woman (I am deliberately not using 'lady') came out from some back office and demanded that we moved our car and trailer from the driveway. As both the driveway and the road were very narrow, flanked with high hedges, I asked her to open the gates so that we could drive around the office building and out at the other side, as I did not want to risk reversing out with next to no view of the road, but she refused - an generally treatred us as some kind of potential violent delinquents.

The I got stubborn and refused to move our vehicles, and after a while she gave in and opened the gates, and instead we found Camping Klein Strand, where we were met with a more normal behaviour.

The evening sky.

The camp with the trusty small awning bought for the old Eccles. As it turned out, it was a good thing that we put it up, as while I was cooking on the small table under it, some kids threw some dried dog poo over the trailer, and it might have hit the stove, were it not for the shelter of the awning.

As you may have guessed, this first day in Belgium did not leave me in the best of moods; I was treated badly by a camp warden, and I had shit thorown at me. Not a good first impression of a country.

2018-07-12, Vacation 2018 - Day 3, Part 1: Driving Through The Netherlands and Belgium

I think Anna took the most of the pictures in this post. Sitting in the back she did not have any responsibilities regarding driving and the occational map-reading (when Gurli, our Garmin, did not understand the data correctly). so I gave her control over my camera.

We were driving from near Enschede (I think) past Arnhem, Nijmegen, Tilburg, and Antwerpen to get to Brügge, so most of the pics - if not all - in this first part of the trip are probably from the Netherlands.

A nice lunch in a rest area along the motorway.

A differently designed noise protection fence.

Anoter interesting take on a noise protection wall.

Part 2 will show some more random shota, and the camping site we reached.

2018-07-11, Vacation 2018 - Day 2: Heading Southwest

 The first couple of pics are from the site where we spent the night.

Lunchtime in a rest area somewhere at the motorway.

In the evening we checked in at a rather nice little camping site - and I cannot remember if it was in the Netherlands or in Belgium, as I cannot find any documents regarding that stay.

EDIT:

I THINK this might be Park Camping Mooi Delden , about 10 km, from Enschede. It looks a bit different now, though.

I shall have a look at my wife's account statements from that period; she may have paid the bills at this place.