A road trip from Belgium

It has been some days because we were on a trip to Belgium. 

Carin had to go to Brussels for her work so I joined her as there was some little things to do like delivering my work computer.

On the first day of our journey it was fun to see some of my colleagues back. Unfortunately some close colleagues were not there. Still in Bhutan?
I was well informed by the others about the things going on in the office. Like: the one who took my place is leaving too. So adaptation to climate change in Flanders on regional level will soon be on a very low level unless somebody will be taken in. But even then, it seems easy but coordinating adaptation to climate change on regional is not an easy thing. You can only build it up slowly.

Luckily there are some cities who are doing really good work.

The second day I went to Leuven to do some shopping and to make my old car ready for the 1000 km to Sweden. Shopping was for some typical Belgian things like chocolate but also washing powder. Strangely enough I did not yet see big family packs of washing powder in the Swedish warehouses. And honey! I know it’s not environmental friendly but I do like so much all different tastes of honey coming from over the whole of the world eg jungle honey from Yucatan or thyme honey from New Zealand. Now I had mint honey from Argentina and pine tree honey from Greece. And there are a whole of a bunch other ones at Weyns honing. In Sweden I did not yet found more than Swedish honey. As Swedish people like mostly Swedish products I guess it’s hard to sell other things when there is a Swedish variant.  

Walking through the streets I saw 2 of my colleagues from my Swedish lessons in Belgium. One of them will try to move to Stockholm this summer. She was already an exchange student here in Lund.

We came by airplane but we wanted to return with my veteran car. That promised to be kind of adventure. As a first test we wanted to reach Venlo already on Friday evening (around 150 km)
There we found a very nice and quiet B&B: 't Jaegershoes in Belfeld. It is a donkey farm … with sheep, goat, horses, chicken, dogs, … all fun to see. 

But notwithstanding the big amount of animals it was very clean and well ordered. A very friendly lady helped us forward. We had a wonderful night.

the empty glass donkey milk

We could have even a tiny glass of donkey milk to taste as breakfast. It is somewhat sweeter and more viscous then cow milk but absolutely not more fat. It was said very expensive but also very healthy. The lady of the house said a lot of Turkish people came to buy it. They use it as a medicine. Maybe therefor Cleopatra was bathing in it too? 
At least it was good milk. 

The next morning we headed for Sweden. It went fine and the car was smoothly gliding over the highways from Germany and Denmark, helped by a brand new GPS and my friendly codriver. Of course there were on the road also quite some people who made remarks about the car.

 

 

In Puttgarden (Germany) we took the ferry to Rødby (Denmark).
In fact this boot was more expensive than a ticket by airplane. Take also into account the price from crossing the bridge and petrol, and you are cheaper of for 2 persons with the airplane. 

And around 9 PM we were back at our farm, save and happy to be home again. 

Nästan tillbaka i Staffanstorp.

Ha det bra!