18 June 2011
We landed in Amsterdam. Browsed around the shops and unfortunately have to say that we had McDonalds for lunch… safest if you don’t know where to go. We did have our first croissants later.
the bags give it away… these kids are from South Africa…
After four hours in Amsterdam, we left with Air France to Paris. Coming from winter in South Africa we were looking forward to summer in Europe. But we landed in Paris in the rain and the pilot’s remark was: “its 16 degrees in Paris which is not enough.”
Then the part started which we’ve been planning for a while. Danie and Mandi took the rented car with all the luggage… six people with luggage don’t really fit in one car. The four of us took the RER to Sartrouville. That went ok, accept that when we arrived we needed tickets (which we had, but did not work…) to get out of the station. Later Pieter asked a non-english-understanding frenchman for help and he jumped over a gate and opened another gate for us. Don’t think that was a legal move.
As we suspected, Danie and Mandi got lost a bit… driving only with a map, no GPS. But they arrived eventually at the station, two hours after we got there. At that stage we had no cellphones that work in France… That was a long wait.
At last at Atravi Residence Hotel at 10pm, but still light in this European summer. And again, because of extreme hunger amongst some of us… we drove to the McDonalds we passed on the way for a very late supper.
