Tuesday, 18th June, 2019
Today is the day that we begin another new trip – this time it’s going to be a road trip to Saronida, Greece – however we are supposed to be going on a leisure trip which means driving some 400km per day and stopping overnight close to a place of interest to do some sightseeing.
We left the Vlietkade just afternoon 12 noon leaving behind us a family of ducklings swimming leisurely in the canal in front of Gerry’s house and a beautiful warm and sunny day with temperatures already reaching 23 degrees Celsius.
Mummy duck with her little ducklings 
A ruff brooding on its nest 
Our backage ready to be packed into the car
The kilometer gage on the Range Rover is 244.926 km and we will be driving well over 3.000 km by the time we reach Saronida ( that is if we don’t make any detours or get lost somehow).
Well our first detour was only a few kilometers into the next village of Lekkerkerk as Gerry had misplaced his valid Green Travel insurance for the Range Rover and needed to pick up a temporary one from his insurance agent……this cost us a good half hour before we were back on track and on the motorway to Antwerp.
Today’s road trip will be driving along Antwerp, Brussels, Luxembourg, Nancy and stop over just outside Nancy at INHotel located just off the motorway in Nancy Frouard. Anyway, a road trip of maximum 5 hours and 466 km took us finally some 7 hrs.30 min to reach our destination due to traffic jams caused by accidents and doing a detour to actually drive through Luxembourg to fill up the car with diesel and for Gerry to get his supply of tobacco for our 6week trip ( much cheaper in Luxembourg and as we are pensioners, we do have to mind our pennies!!)
We arrived finally at our overnight stay and by this time we were ravished and decided to have dinner – conveniently at the Buffalo Grill just down the road from the INHotel. We only snacked on raw veggies (for me), cheese sandwich and magnum ice cream for Gerry so we treated ourselves to a really good meal.
Back at our room we finished of some admin and social media stuff and had an early night as we have an early start tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow we will first do some sightseeing in Nancy and then start driving to Lucern for our overnight stop.