Well we’ve booked the Eurotunnel and Sunny has seen a vet, the latter being even less expensive than Greece, consultation, tablets and passport stamping for €6, amazing! Armed with the most delicious cake in the world, replete with strudel and salami sandwiches we left Austria and headed back to Belgium via Luxembourg (because the petrol is half the price there). Strangely we went to exactly the same petrol station in Luxembourg, even though we left a different motorway than last time, so we bought the same things and pretended to be in a time warp.
We arrived back in Bruges, at the same site we stayed in last time because it’s clean and convenient. We haven’t seen any UK cars for ages but here we are surrounded by massive English motor homes towering over us and looking very comfortable, we have had terrible van envy especially when it is raining, but those big white busses are really not cool and the people in them are old (probably my age but I’m in complete denial). We still plan to go to the motorhome show next year though!
It’s nearly St Nicholas here in Belgium so everything is decorated, the Christmas market is not as good as the ones in Austria but the town looks really pretty and the sun shone for us today. We went into one of the chocolate shops, making sure that it was proper Belgian chocolate because sadly it’s not protected by the EU like Champagne or Stilton and we bought so much we were given a tour of the kitchens by the owner who told us how it was made, where the beans came from and how they were processed. The back of the shop opened onto the side of the hotel the gang in the film ‘In Bruges’ were hiding in and there had been a film crew on his patio while there were making it!
It has been a wonderful four months, not the year in Greece that we expected but we have seen some amazing places, made loads of new friends and loved some old ones.