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It's around an hour drive from Amsterdam to Utrecht and once we got there we headed into town first to find a supermarket so we could grab some bread and some beers (we hadn't had one since we arrived and it didn't feel right). we parked up after getting seriously lost. we tried to find the tourist office and got even more lost but that was kinda the best bit. Utrecht is beautiful. Loads of hidden bars under bridges along the canals. It was cool. So when we found the tourist office we asked if there was somewhere in town we'd be able to sleep in the van overnight, so we could see more of utrecht. She gave us the name of a campsite which was sort of in the suburbs. We grabbed some beers from a shop and got back in Lynn. The maps thing I have on my phone isn't very clear, but we got off the main road and started heading along a canal. we thought we were no more than a few hundred yards away from this campsite. There was a lot of slow moving traffic along this tiny road so we figured it must be popular. There was girl in a bikini outside a little rental barge on the canal. Then Becci spotted another one, except she was wearing knee high boots. Then another sitting in front of her barge that had several ginormous dildos standing in the window. It had become clear that we'd not only stumbled into another red light district, but we were actively curb crawling because we were now stuck in this queue of traffic. We got to the end of the lane, which was a dead end so we had do the whole thing again!! AND, because Lynn is such a lump, we couldn't get round the turning circle. So me and Becci had to do a three point turn in front of 15 cars and 25 prostitutes, bringing the whole affair to a compete standstill.
Anyway, we found the campsite eventually, but it was 20 euros a night, which was too much for us. we figured we'd get to see utrecht when we visit Andy and Kirsty when they move. So we went back to the original plan and headed for the Camperstop outside of the city. More on that next time.
Bosh! x x
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