Holland's story

After 2 days in Santiago de Compostela, it is time to catch a Ryan Air flight to Frankfurt Am Hahn. We will from there on travel to Heidelberg to catch up with a friend of Gary's. Here we will spend 4 days to rest, chat and explore the neighbourhood. I enjoy a meal of sauerkraut with Hans, Gary has something more to his liking and the kids have a kids' meal. We all enjoy the time we have together but soon it is time to move on. We catch a train from Heidelberg to Rotterdam Centraal station. We haven't arranged a place to sleep. Gary is a spur of the moment man. I feel a little uneasy about this as my family is a family that likes to be forewarned. I believe this will not necessarily cause too much of a problem as lodgings were promised prior to our departure to Europe. We arrive in Rotterdam in the late afternoon and contact my father in hope we will be able to stay with him for the duration of our stay in Holland, but as he is renovating we are unable to stay with him. We contact my uncle but are told that his wife's daughter and her 2 children are staying there at the present time, as their unit is being upgraded by the dutch government as the units were originally build in the 70's and are in need of modernisation inside each unit and out. What does this mean? It means we can stay for a little while only. Luckily for us my old neighbour offers us his spare bedroom and this turns out to be the best. Gert is easy-going and we can stay as long as we like.