Part 2: Countries Galore

Before this trip I had only been to 3 countries: Australia, USA and New Zealand. Today alone, we started in England, caught the Eurostar to Calais, France, picked up our hire car and crossed into Belgium, before reaching our destination of a riverside town called Maastricht, in the Netherlands. Starting your day at 4:30am in London and ending up in a small town on the Maas river doesn't come without its problems. For starters, a senile 58 year old driving a left-side operating manual on the right side of the road meant that driving 20km/h was scary. Basically he was retarded. We stopped at Brugge for an hour or so, and it just hits you how far away you are from Melbourne and just how different everything is here to Australia. And quite frankly, everything is better here. Except the weather. And friends. Not that I have any friends here....
Maastricht is yet another amazing place, surrounded by the Dutch countryside which is just phenomenal. The whole city is lined with small cobblestone streets, but part of the Dutch's carbon emissions footprint was that Maastricht banned cars from moving around the city. So you literally have to park away from the town, and walk or ride. There are a million cyclists everywhere, and it was kinda funny to see some young girls riding into a nightclub...something that would interest Stephen Butler. I enjoyed that call.


The day's nearly up and it's 0 degrees outside, high chance of snow in the coming days, I've taken some hekkaz photos and felt it was worth sharing that I was in 4 countries, just today.

 

 

England

France

 

 

Belgium

Netherlands