Saturday, January 11, 1992
Early up to finish our shampooing. Bet our neighbors below are enjoying the noise. We departed St. Germain at 11:30am, for Utrecht, Netherlands, leaving our wet floors behind, arriving there about 4:30pm. Driving thru Belgium and into the Netherlands, the fog was so heavy we could barely see 100 feet away. If there were any Dutch windmills, we couldn’t have seen them. About 1 hour out of Utrecht, a temperature sign told us it was -1C, which was cold enough for us.
All of sudden we noticed frost had overtaken the sides of the road that we could see and then we were in the midst of snow. Just beautiful! We had to stop at a park area to admire it and, of course, take pictures. There was just one little stretch of it and suddenly we were out of the snow. Our arrival at the hotel was painless enough but we couldn’t really see the city for the fog.
One thing you quickly realize, though, people have bicycles instead of cars. There are bicycles everywhere! It’s easy to get run over by one. They have regular lanes on the streets for bicycles and they even have their own stoplights at street crossings. Amazing.
