Holland

3rd Oct

We had booked the ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland for Friday 4th October and it sailed at 9am so we thought that it would be a good idea to travel to Harwich the night before and so we booked a little park up with a site called, funnily enough, MACSUK! ///after.scanning.heartened

It was a gravel pitch in a locked compound and it cost £10 per night, no services at all but only 20 minutes from the ferry terminal.

We set off at around 3:30pm as we couldn't get on the pitch until 5pm and drove east towards the site via Colchester and arrived just on 5pm and pulled into the compound and got the van ready for bed!

4th Oct

The alarm went off at 6:30am and Andy put the kettle on for a brew. We got ready sharpish and left the MACSUK park up at 7:10 and headed for Harwich.

20 minutes later we were pulling into the port and got our boarding passes and at around 8:15 we drove onto the ferry!

The crossing was really smooth but took just over 7 hours and the wi-fi was rubbish. Andy eventually got hold of ee and bought a roaming pack for £25 but there was very little signal on board the ferry so he gave up on trying to work on line!

Soon we were approaching the Hook of Holland and we docked and we told to return to our vehicles.

We drove off the ferry and got our passports stamped and set off to the park up that we had chosen for tonight.

The road system was brilliant and well organised and there were new cycle paths everywhere!

We found the park up ///pepper.bouncing.gasiline but it was full so we turned around and park at the side of the road next to the dunes and the Markostand bunker. 

 ///quilting.melt.curled

After locking up we walked through the dunes to the beach which was massive. The was a beach bar which we might visit tomorrow but for tonight we bought 4 cans of Heineken and returned to the van to rest before bed.

5th Oct

Up at 8am and we got the chairs set up as it was a lovely sunny day.

A stream of classic cars drove past the park up on the way to (who knows where?) and we snapped them as they passed by.

After a while we got the bikes out and biked it to the beach at 'Hook van Holland strand' and popped in to the 'Beach club one' bar where we spent a really great afternoon drinking Texels beer.

Back at the van we just sat in the last of the sun drinking wine until it got chilly and we gave up and jumped into the van to warm up.

6th Oct

A cold morning followed a quiet night. Andy got up at 8:30 and Sue at 9:30. We had a slow morning checking sites for our next stop and deciding where to go to explore today.

We found a couple of leisure centres nearby and decided to try one in the next few days to use the showers and jacussi. The average price for a swim ticket is €7 each.

We also checked out the trains into Rotterdam centre for a visit in the next few days. Average cost €10 each single.