Kat Across The Pond

In Germany

So now I'm in Germany, after having driven 500 kilometres and spent 4 hours on the ferry yesterday. I'm not a good seafarer, but the sea was very calm, I hardly realised we were travelling it was that calm. I didn't have to take the advice of one friend to stand down wind so the sick doesn't fly back into my face and mess up my hairdo. So there!

Driving in the Netherlands requires a whole different set of skills, namely to ignore all other drivers on the road and keep going towards your goal, ignoring all distractions in the shape of other cars, bicycles or pedestrians, avoiding them as far as in you lies. I managed without major incidents and soon crossed the border into Germany.

So I made it, arrived home at 6 pm, having travelled for 11 hours.

Oh by the way - if anyone is considering using the RAC website for directions and indications of how long a journey might take - don't! According to the RAC, the trip from Nottingham to Harwich should have taken 4 1/2 hours, meaning I would have left Nottingham at 4.30 am. Thankfully, I double checked on www.viamichelin.com and found out it would be more like 3 hours, so I left at a quarter to six. I still got there miles too early (having driven most of the route German-style). It took me 2 hours 45 minutes.

posted by Kat @ 12:40 pm