Arrival in Rotterdam

13th-14th June

We were woken at 6am English time, 7am Dutch time by a very loud PA system for the buffet breakfast. We begrudgingly got dressed and made our way to a rammed self serviced café that was so well organised they knew we were arriving before we had even woken up.

At Rotterdam two hours later we went through customs and set about getting to our first destination East of Utrecht – a small town called Zeist.
The first campsite was fully booked with “elderly people” doing the same thing as us! We went a little further down the road to a site we found by chance and booked in for two nights.

The weather was very hot – nearly 25 degrees so we decided to have a quick lunch followed by a siesta and then a cycle around the campsite. We were slightly confused as we saw many people in bathing suits with inflatables but could not find a pool on site and were miles from the sea.

We ventured out of the site and found the most amazing oasis – a pool used during the Napoleonic times that was located in a pine forest.
It was heaving, full of Dutch families having BBQ’s, swimming and even playing beach volleyball – it was so surreal. We decided to return on Sunday however the following day it rained so hard that we had to stay in and play scrabble! Paul won (1-0, so far…).

On Monday morning we returned for a stroll before breakfast and it was not only completely deserted but totally spotless like nobody had ever found it.
We packed up our camper and drove on to Nunspeet.