just another morning here

It rained. Horrible wet drizzly rain. I stayed in bed for hours, can’t remember the last time I did that without a hangover! Steve and the children played cards, everyone coloured doodle patterns, I finished all my books (so did they, I think!), and then the kids went out to play despite the rain, getting wet and sandy and muddy in the process!

During the afternoon Steve and I popped to Carrefour on a secret mission; Steve had been hoping to pick up a small tv/dvd combi for the caravan at some point anyway, so we figured we’d do it sooner rather than later, hoping that we had the right sort of leads/sockets/adaptors to make it work! We found exactly what we’d been looking for, came back, and got it working which was fantastic, Josiah was thrilled to be able to watch his Spiderman DVD that he’d bought in Amsterdam the week before!

The rain stopped briefly over dinnertime so the kids rushed out to play, but then had to come in when it started again later. We cleaned them up (a major operation!) and had stories, then Steve & I watched the first couple of hours of 24 (season 1) which we’d picked up really cheaply in Carrefour – only 5 years after the rest of the world, but we hadn’t watched any of them before – really enjoyed it!

We had to be off one site by 12pm but supposedly not arriving at the next until 4pm so we ambled around for a bit in the morning, went and found a supermarket and did some shopping before coming back to pick up the trailer. Said goodbye to the hustle and bustle of Camping Zeeburg at almost exactly noon, and travelled down to Turnhout and Baalse Hei. We were there by 2pm, and they were happy about that so no problems there.

It felt like a huge contrast between the two sites – Baalse Hei was in the middle of the countryside, very peaceful, and the site itself was fairly empty and quiet. In our small camping area only 3/10 of the pitches were occupied at any one time, and this was mid-August, we were really surprised. Plenty of space for our palace this time, and we were thrilled to see a little play area in the middle of the field, which our kids had to themselves for 99% of the time!

After we’d set up we went for a walk and explored the site, sat and had a beer in the bar while the children played in the big play area, the length of the lake away! Felt as though we were going to have a lovely relaxing week, and we did