10 & 11 May ’04, Monday and Tuesday. We want to get the van over to Donna’s early this morning so that she can take care of the small list of “to-do” things. For once, we drove directly to her place without making a much longer trip out of it than was necessary. After going over the list, Louise and I headed off to town (walking). We wanted to get some internet work done so we headed directly for the little shoppe we have used many times before. The problem came (why does it seem that there is always a problem?) when we arrived 2 hours before they opened for business. Monday it seems, is one of those days were most shoppes don’t open until after noon. Well we couldn’t sit on the door step so we were off window shopping and looking for another cup of coffee. We told Donna we'd be back by 4pm so when we got back everything was ready for us. Now off to our next stop. We headed South toward Belgium. By the time we got to Breda we decided to look for a campground to spend the night. As it was I drove past the first one but by the time we discovered the mistake we came across another one. Once we checked in and were shown our pitch we were very pleased. One of our better campgrounds to date. On the road again. Our destination for the day is Bruges (Brugge). We have traveled a lot of miles now in the Netherlands and we have thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them, but we've got more of Europe to see. The sights along the road are beautiful. Today we happened upon a War Memorial Cemetery in Bergen op Zoom, that was dedicated to the Canadian fighters of WWII. It is beautifully maintained and a wonderful remembrance for those that gave their lives for the defeat of Hitler's Nazi’s. Our next highlight was a huge tunnel that goes under the Westerschelde. This is a large river that extends to the North Sea. The length of the tunnel was just over 8 km. It was dedicated just a year ago and still "smelled" new. The grade is steep enough that you have to use your brake peddle to slow your glide speed. Then once your on your way it seems to go on and on. Quite a ride…. A little while longer and the roadway changes and you are suddenly into another country….Belgium (Belgique). As we got closer to Bruges we started looking for our turn off to the campground that we had chosen. Well, the directions were a little confusing, but with a couple of turn arounds and “I thought you said’s”, we were finally in Bruges and looking forward to morning to start our 3 days of exploring here.
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