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If only we were here to visit today... It's bright sunshine and the temperature has shot up to 14 deg. We have a chat with an English couple in the next bay and exchange a few names of places to visit before setting off around 10:30
As expected the motorway around Rotterdam is busy with many interchanges but no hold ups and once we have crossed the enormous coathanger bridge we are out in lush green countryside.
The plan was to head south to an aire at Hansweert which looks out over the wide canal leading to Antwerp. Unfortunately, when we arrive, all five spaces are occupied, although one chap is loading his bicycles so we park and wait. It's a ship spotter's dream here with a variety of barges, tankers, car carriers and all sorts sailing to and fro. Bicycle man goes inside and they start lunch. We wait a while more but it doesn't look like anyone is moving soon so we decide to move on.
We find a marina just over the border into Belgium which requires us to go through the Terneuzen tunnel, but a number of new intersections confuse Snoopy and us and we find ourselves heading for Middelburg, where there are two aires which we considered this morning anyway.
Being Easter the roads are busy and we've never seen so many Belgian motorhomes at once, but we're near the border so maybe they've popped into Holland for the holiday weekend.
When we reach Middelburg all 6 motorhome slots are full but other motorhomes are parking all over the carpark so we slot in on the end and have a much needed sandwich. Soon a couple motorhomes leave and we move to a better position, but we are still surprised that 3 out of 4 vans are Belgian.
Ali goes for a walk into town while Nick stays in with a book. Ali find the town attractive with a flower market in the square and many old style buildings. Middelburg is almost an island, with a canal which almost completely encircles it, and the herring-bone paved roads form concentric circles around the main square.
In the evening we find a good wi-fi signal using the booster ariel, until a big Belgian van parks in front of us in the next row, right in line with the signal, so it's back to reading a book before dinner.
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