It only took one afternoon and one morning to make our flat look like a whirlwind went through. No matter, we’ll be back in a couple of days and can clean up then.
Number 3 and I managed to go to the farmer’s market to buy cherries as a road snack and fresh bread at our local bakery.
Repacking was easy as we hadn’t unpacked a lot in the first place. So by 9am, we were back on the road. The distance to our friends’ place in the Netherlands isn’t too bad at 340km, but with two small kids, you have to time everything just right.
The Agent slept and Number 3 was pretty good, which made things easy. Also, he can be distracted by audio books if push comes to shove.
Finding a fast charger was surprisingly hard this time. Only because we started to be a bit picky and also because we wanted to stop next to the autobahn before we got to the sprawl that is the start of the Rhein-Ruhr area marked by Cologne. In the end, we stopped at an e-on charger. Flo couldn’t get the charger to work with his charge card. After calling in to report the issue, they activated it remotely and we charged for free.
Again, there was no shade to be found. Plus, the actual rest stop was still closed on this side of the autobahn. Now we had the choice between a bench in the shade and a toilet at the fuel station or a walk across the autobahn bridge to the open rest stop. We chose to stay and eat our delicious bread and cheese.
With all the kerfuffle in the beginning our stop ended up one and a half hours long, more than enough to fully charge the car again.
This time Number 3 fell asleep while the Agent was awake for a while. We managed to get to the Netherlands before Number 3 woke up and immediately started to complain that he had to live his life in a car and never wanted to go by car ever again. It was quite a long way for kids, we understand that. Once there, we planned to stay put for at least two nights.
As it was, the last 30 minutes dragged with me trying to keep the kids from screaming. And then just like that, we were there. 🙂 A house, a big yard and garden, shade, kids, something to drink and the world looked brighter again for Number 3. Both our kids went off to explore and we had time to talk to our friend Leonie which we hadn’t seen in way too long.
She cooked a yummy veggie meal for us and Peter arrived before we all sat down to eat. All four kids demanded attention to get them fed and ready to sleep. By the time we had our two in bed and asleep (which didn’t take long), the others also were asleep. So, we had until 11pm to talk to Peter and Leonie before I had to fall into bed as well.
The one spot with shade – not in frame, the polish van driver just behind me cooking his dinner o.O 
brand new and cool charger – but it did not take my charge card. 5 minutes delay for the call but then for free … 
this is the final country for this trip 
good that our host’s big one was still asleep 😉 
Number 3 learned to use pedal power within the hour – the Agent though she could do it, too 
he was allowed to pick the flavour 
I dont quite remember the topic, but I am sure we were geeking out 😀 
like the pipes of an organ, a german saying goes 
All four of the little rascals in one shot. The two big ones get ice cream 
Since Number 3 loved the tractor it was very high on the Agent’s list 🙂 
Summer holiday! 
Outside seating for a dinner for eight people 
Getting ready for bed. A last round on the tractor, a last try of getting to the bubbles and me taking down the blinds
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