Dover to Rotterdam, The Netherlands

After London we spent a few days realxing and shopping around. In Folkestone we bought lots of Second-Hand Books from a charity shop and some travelling guides to all the stopovers and camp areas in Europe.
On the 6th we said goodbye to England and the White cliffs of Dover and took the ferry to Calais, France.
First thing we noticed was we were suddenly on the other side of the road. We stopped at a Aire-a free motorhome stopover and there were other motorhomes!!!
Next morning we drove up through Belgium (thinking we were still in France). There were no bordersbut alot of bicycles and pots of flowers. We were in the Netherlands by lunchtime and it's very flat!!! Half the signs were English and the rest Dutch. We saw glasshouses for miles and were driving on a dike at one point. In the afternoon we followed signs 'Kiwis welcome' that our friends PJ and Claudia Potgieser (http://www.dutchduowildlife.nl/index.htm) had put out for us. We met PJ and Claudia in La Penita. Mexico in '07. After catchin up over the last few years we started the 'Great Dutch Feast'. We started with Deep fried 'Bitterballen' (Beef Ragout rolled in bread crumbs) and other Meat Parcels, Deep fried. We then tried all the unique dutch chip flavours like paprika and hamka's.
For dinner we had a Chicken Sate Kebabs, Fried Banana, Bami (Noodles), Nasi (Rice), Kroepoek (Fried Shrimp Chips) and Pindasaus (Peanut Sauce, which went with everything). And we couldn't eat it all!
For pudding we had Griesmeel (Cherry and Semolina), Btterkoekje Pudding (Macaroon flavour) and Chipolata (Fruit and Almond) and (Our favourtie) 'Vla' (Chocolate and Vanilla, like custard but not custard).
We kept going and tried all the dutch Snoepje (Lollies) especially Salted Drop liquorice.After a good sleep we woke up to another feast of Beschuit (Crisp Bread) and Muisjes (Little blue or pink sprinkles that you eat as tradition when a baby is born, Blue ones if a boy or pink if a girl). We also ate Hagelslag (Chocalate sprinkles), Roggenbroad (Moist Dark Rye Bread) and Komynekaas (Cheese and Cumin Seeds) and sausage and more cheese.

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