(More photos to come)
We arrived in Lille full of excitement and anticipation as we picked up our home for the next three months – the campervan! Before long, we had filled in the requisite paperwork and we were on our way. At this point, we thought our next blog post title would be ‘Our new home’.
Our excitement, however, quickly dissolved and turned into fear and confusion…WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD?!?!
Learning to drive on the right hand side of the road is one of the more difficult things we have ever done. Everything feels upside-down and back-to-front. We almost had a head on collision, side swiped an unsuspecting cyclist and ran into some parked cars….and that was all before we’d left the campervan depot!
It was at this point that we thought a more apt blog post title would be ‘Dazed and confused’
Not to be deterred, we soldiered on to our first destination – Gent in Belgium. Monique was very supportive while Daniel was driving, serenading him with Beyonce’s hit To the Left whenever we started drifting off the road. Less helpful was when she exclaimed: ‘I don’t want to distract you, but there’s a giant naked man on the side of the road’. While Queensland has The Big Pineapple, it turns out that Belgium has ‘The Big, Middle Aged, Balding, Overweight Naked Guy’.
We arrived at the campsite after making a (not so) quick detour via Ikea and the supermarket for supplies and started preparing dinner. It had been a beautifully warm and sunny day, but the moment the sun started going down it got very cold, very damp, very quickly.
Due to the oh-so-quaint size of the van, all the cooking, food preparation, bed making and general tidying needs to be done while standing outside. We quickly cast our minds forward a couple of months…to Germany in the middle of December.
Upon this realization, we felt that the most appropriate name for this blog post was ‘Whose idea was this anyway?’
You can choose.
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