Our test weekend with the Hymer (3)

Day 3, March 7 - 2010

5 in the morning. We both woke up because of the very low temperature but after a very quiet night.
Tjep switched on the heater, it was bitterly cold. Iced windows and, not to our surprise though, no water. Frozen taps and pipes. Luckily the water tank was not frozen.
We went back to sleep hoping the heater would also defrost everything.
False hope and we scooped water from the tank in bottles: one for the WC, one for washing, one for the tea, one for the coffee, one for the dogs, etc.
It reminded us very much of camping with a tent. But still far more cosy!

It was beautiful outside and after walking the dogs in the snow, we were fortunate to see deer passing by the Van, 7 female and 1 male. Unfortunately they were too fast to take photo’s.
Apart from a few Golfers we didn’t see any people. This was definitely our best spot for the night.

During morning tea and coffee we looked at the map and decided to go down to Essen via Ede.
It was very slippery when we tried to leave and Tjep did a great job getting the Camper back on track. Off we went!

In Ede we stopped for the lunch. From Essen we drove through impressive landscapes to Recke, looking for a place to park for the night.
We found one near a small road with two houses in the neighbourhood. There was hardly any snow here for a change.
We left the Camper for a long walk with the dogs. A big mistake as what we thought was a bus stop nearby, was a kennel with a few dogs that barked hysterically when the saw ours!
Guess what ours did. Exactly, barking back in the same hysterical way!
After the walk we decided to move on as we were not looking forward to a cacophony of barking sounds throughout the night.

Tjep drove the Camper backwards and a small red light switched on. Not too happy with unknown error messages in a Camper you still don’t know thoroughly, we looked in the manual. The brake warning light…..
Driving back and forth, braking, we didn’t feel any problems and decided to drive on but carefully.

Our new choice for the night was perfect. Close to a football field, near a small road and only a few houses nearby.

We saw on the map that we were close to the villages Beesten (Dutch for animals….) and Schapen (Dutch for sheep…..). Funny people those Germans J

We parked the Van, tried not to think about the red warning light and after a walk, a meal, relaxing reading and chatting, we called it a day.

Will be continued!