Holiday recap

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On the 4th we got the Caravan. We drove it back carefully and started loading it.

The 5th in the morning (not as early as we wanted) we left for Lausanne. Driving was uneventfull for us, but the first 300 km we say 3 caravan related accidents. Nothing makes you concentrate on driving as much as driving past a poor family on the side of the road standing next to the wrek of their stuff.

We had a few stops in France and got irritated by the low speed limit for caravans in Swizz (80 km/h instead of 130 km/h in France).

When we arrived we quickly contacted our friends and went to the cathedral of Lausanne for some open air party. The camping gave us free travel tickets on the public transport so it was very nice and easy to get round. I took an instant dislike to the old fashioned attitutes of the Swizz to smoking, aka "it is good for you".

The 6th it was raining a lot, so we visited the olympic museum in the city and then went for diner with the same friends again. All in all it was nice the camping was nice and the city also seems nice.

The 7th we left early for Venice. The GPS decided that the 'easy' way was not across the Mont Blanc Tunnel but the more difficult Saint Bernard Tunnel. In the fog. The picture does not do justice to the difficult driving conditions.



In the end we arrived in the camping which is on the end of a long road. At one point you see a sign saying: "left this and that camping, straight 25 more campings". We quickly (with some help) parked the caravan, setup the tent and had dinner. Then we went for a walk and were incredibly lucky: we just followed the stream of people and ended up on the beach just at the start of the fireworks display. Which was very nice and very very long.



The next few days were mostly taken up by going to the wonderful swimming pools, shopping and going for walks to the beach. In the evening the kids of the camping would all join in a 'baby dance' of dancing while being lead by the 'entertainers'.

The 11th we went to Venice. We took the 12 hour ticket public transport ticket and saw the Doge's palace and then had a long with a crossing of the Canale Grande by a gondola . At the end of a triering day we went home to our Caravan.





The 14th we left and drove to the camping of Milano. That one is a lot worse of course, especially it was a lot less clean. In any case we had a nice time walking round Milano and even went onto the top of the Cathedral. The evening of the 14th there was a great storm with lighting and a strong wind. The tent remained up, but was very wet...



The 15th we went via the Gottart across Switzerland and then to camping Lug ins Land near Bad Bellingen in Germany. There we relaxed for a day until the bad weather caught up with us. Just after we had folded up the tent (that only just got dried) it started raining again. So with rain we returned to Belgium where we cleaned up the caravan and returned it to the lender.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Nice pictures.

[pvaneynd]

And now that you are a contact of mine, you'll see quite a few more :-).