Windmills & Autobahns

What a fabulous idea staying at the Sheraton at the airport, best nights sleep I’ve had in years. Apart from a couple of lost party goers there was complete silence. Didn’t hear a single plane nor road noise. Up this morning and had a beautiful breakfast then hit the road to find the old fashioned windmills. We’ve seen our fair share of new windmills since hitting Europe.
Wandered through the museum & saw the windmills… along with the millions of other tourists.
Lunch was a huge pancake with bacon, cheese & onion - I can feel my arteries hardening. It was getting really hot so time for this old duck to find some shade or at least a breeze.
Time to hit the road and head to Oelde… via the Autobahn.
Mental speeds but it was like watching a dance, people in and out of lanes barely indicating and other drivers just giving way. Trucks stayed to the right - yep still not used to that and the fact there’s no steering wheel on my side of the car.
Road surface is amazing but the gardeners need to be sacked… weeds everywhere and growing over the sound walls.

We stop in Beek to send cards to some special people 💙 then have some “ice” that’s the shortened name for ice cream & what we at home call soft serve.

Back in the car & no sooner had we driven over the boarder to Germany the signage changed (expected), I did giggle when I saw the exit sign….
Grey skies looked eerie and before we knew it were stuck in a hail storm. So bad the traffic came to a complete stop - mental.
Temperature plummeted from 37 to 19 within 10 minutes….
I was pretty happy that it cooled down - spoke too soon, back up to 29 within minutes..🥵
Arrived at the hotel and guess what? Renovations are happening so the bar & restaurant is closed - NNNOOO.
Time to put shoes back on and venture out for dinner. Have a look around at this charming town.Les mer