Best Western Grand Hotel Heerlen

... of course), and a pillow for 107 Euro. About as good a deal as I could get!

I was thinking about trying to get the mattress on the bus, because I couldn't get ahold of Nil on her cell phone, but then luckily I reached her at home. She immediately came to the mattress store and helped me load the purchases in the car. I thanked her up and down, needless to say. She then had to go to a meeting so I took the bus home. I sat next to this ...

... space isn't exactly the safest place to be. With the German national elections coming up, tensions are high.

At least the weather is nice here, though! We are having a little Indian summer, about 70 degrees and sunny outside. I better take advantage of this now, because I hear the winter can be really terrible: sunrise at 10am and sunset at 4pm.. we shall see how that goes.

Ok well Nil should be here any minute, more later!

Hi all,

Had a pretty lazy Sunday. I know that tomorrow is going to be very busy so I just wanted to relax today. Had apple strudel ala mode for lunch, haha. Then we had a turkish dish for dinner. It was chicken wings and sliced potatoes on a pan lightly smothered in tomato sauce with lots of spices and garlic. It was pretty good! I just dont like the skin or fat on chicken, and I dont like ...

After popping into and out of Germany, we were now back in Belgium. It was beginning to get a bit dark, and we still had at least 200 miles left to drive.

Gaz's motor was struggling, and threatening to overheat, so we stopped to let it cool down.

With the vehicles all decorated with stickers, we attracted a bit of attention, and a Belgian couple took our ...

Once in Elsloo, we stopped to find postcards (having completely missed the observations again), only to find that the only card shop was closed that afternoon.

Up the road a bit, and Kieran was dropping a card into the door of a Landy enthusiast they had met on the recce. The guy turned up at that moment, and so we were invited in for a refreshing cold drink. The Landyprikkers overtook us at that point, and went on their way. We then ...

... time. That means that some people were eating while other people were done. It was weird, because they knew we were coming and we even had our food pre-ordered, so they knew what dishes to make. I guess it was because we were such a large group, about 80 people.

After lunch we took a walking tour of the city. They split our large group into three smaller groups to make it more managable. The city is ...

... cities in Holland for the entire month of October. This ticket to buy would probably cost at least 40 Euro, if not more. Pretty nice coupon!

I then went to another office near the main train station to register myself as a foreigner in the country, the second part of the process. Really I couldn’t register on the same day, I just had to make an appointment and it is for 9AM next Friday. I have to bring proof of ...

... our waiter at the steak joint. He has already run my credit card and says that it's too late. Rather than taking a tip from us, he is trying to give us free courtesy drinks. We, of course, refuse as we don't drink. But I get the last say by leaving a cash tip. I am looking forward to a good sleep. Sorry, there are for this and the last entry. It was getting darker after Vianden, and although it was a beautiful ...

We 'trundled down past Maastricht towards Germany. The deviations were big ones but we still were able to make good time! The scenery was worth the deviations though. We past by some wonderful little towns and river gorges. Very nice bit of countryside. Will have to return there sometime, God willing!

... that Holland ist vorbei (Holland is finished). :) Gotta love the foreigner's taunts. We were so tired from no sleep in Frankfurt and decided it was high time for a beer anyway, so we went to the middle of town and sat at a little outdoor bar where they had the game on in the window. Eric practically fell asleep watching the game, so we got on the train at 4:30 to Bad Neuenahr, where we were to meet Vince and his traveling companions. Somehow we made ...