Northabout

So I can't say I have enjoyed today. The ferry crossing from Hull to Europort was fine but as I got through customs my phone stopped working......and therefore so did my navigation. I did all the tricks....off on, flight mode off on, APN deleted and re-entered, logged on to different networks but nothing. The app still shows 15 GB of data but nothing doing. So a laborious day of stopping at every fuel stop to see if there is a y free wifi so I could download a map. I guessed that Den Haag was in the right direction but when I got there I thought I really could not carry on blind. At the next stop the free wifi was as useless as all the others but a girl took pity on me and let me Hotspot to her phone and so I got a basic route map. Loads of traffic.....loads of jams.....loads of smashed up vehicles. I hate 'filtering' but I know it is legal here and I had to do it if I was to make any headway. Some car drivers though thought it was fun to try and head me off and more than one tried to nudge my panniers as I passed. My basic map was not perfect.....I kept on wondering why my ETA at the hotel was still 45 minutes away when it was only 4 km....turns out I, in my internet deprivation, had managed to pick a hotel on the wrong side of the bloody great river that runs down to Bremen. So I ended up in little Turkey complete with Hookahs on the street tables and very weird telly in the bars.Read more