We left beautiful Belgium this morning and headed north to The Netherlands. Our plan was to spend a couple of days seeing some of the southern cities before heading to Ermelo to meet some of Brii’s extended family.
Our first port of call was Rotterdam, but being Sunday, everything was closed. This combined with the miserable weather we were encountering helped us make the decision to keep driving. We think we did see the lake that Brii’s Opa and Oma used to take her Aunt and Father for walks around though.
We drove on to Delft, a small, charming village just east of Rotterdam. Delft is famous for its blue and white pottery, called Delftware, and is the resting place of William of Orange who was the ‘Father of the Netherlands’ and commanded the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule in the 16th century. Whilst there we visited the Royal Delft Pottery factory which is one of the oldest functioning factories for Delftware.
But, like everywhere else in The Netherlands on a Sunday, most of Delft was closed so after wandering around this very quaint village we spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing in our camper... with wine and cheese of course!
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