April 16th 2019
Busy day today. We’re going to retrieve our car which is still in Stellendam. The car rental was only a short walk away from the marina, just over half an hour walking distance. Hmmm…are we already getting used to the whole walking thing? Normally half an hour walking we would definitely haven’t called short.
Thus began operation car retrieval. Collect the van at the rental, then drive to Stellendam to pick up our car. With the car and the van we drove to Carmen’s parents place where the car will stay for the coming months. When we had ordered the new connector for the solar panels we had them delivered there as well, and they had arrived just in time. We also had ordered handy language guides in Danish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Russian. These ‘Wat & Hoe’ (What & How) booklets contain useful sentences like “Where is the supermarket?”, but also sentences like “If you don’t leave now, I will start to scream”. You can imagine we already have had a lot of pleasurable anticipation with the booklets before we’ve even set foot in those countries.
Of course we made use of the opportunity to pick up some groceries and diesel before we said our goodbyes and drove back with the rental van again. In Middelharnis we dropped the diesel and groceries off at the boat first before returning the car to the rental place.
And there we found ourselves, walking in the middle of nowhere back to our boat in the dead of night. No car anymore to conveniently drive you home. Feels like we’ve really untied all the lines now.