Our first week on the road… still in the comfort of private homes and company of friends. We arrived in NL on Wednesday morning to meet up with Mariska and spent some lovely time over apple pie of Dudok in The Hague followed by finding the Iranian embassy closed (although not mentioned on their website and having had the day organised around their opening time between 14h and 16h), then joining Marlies, Jaap and Teun at Van der Valk in Nootdorp. What a match NL-AUS we enjoyed while having dinner and chit chats! Overnight in Nijmegen at my parent’s place, where we emptied the whole car. My goodness what had we all taken for this journey!
We hadn’t had time to put the chest with car parts and tools on the roof rack, nor anything else, so all was inside of the car. We are planning to get it all up on the roof when leaving Paris next week Monday.
Unexpectedly we made a return journey on Thursday to the Iranian embassy in The Hague again, with waiting time of 2.5 hours! We met some lovely people, millener, mathematician, researcher of apps on the human psyche etc. who were all on their way to requesting their visas. Mine would be ready by Monday.
A flits good bye to my family while on our way to the wedding of Renske and Mark. A delightful day, happy, emotional ceremony and a lot of dancing at the party. Saturday a family reunion; brothers, sisters, cousins of my father and their children and children’s children. It was an exciting day of meeting new people who are family. With all our trips to The Hague, we are now very familiar with the A15, the A12 and the A4;). We had a wonderful stay with Vera and Ab, with goodbye wave to friends in Amsterdam, after which we continued our journey to Brussels where we are currently. The Grand-Place and Manneken Pis have received our visit so far, as well as Bonsoir Clara to celebrate Helle’s birthday together with Hanne.
Tonight we’ll check out a local milonga.