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Subject Topic: two weeks in Holland and NO other ENGLISH
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Personsunseeker10
28/8/2008 at 3:59pm
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Igmagib, just thought I would let you know that we have just returned from South Holland!  Stayed in Antwerp for the first night (after surviving the ring road) which was well worthwhile.  Ambled on to Holland and settled for Camping Veerse Meer on South Zeeland - a small site but probably with the cleanest loos that we have ever seen.  Weather was good, although damp for the first couple of nights.  Cycled 50km with no probs (apart from a sore bottom) in one day and just relaxed by the lake.  Middleburg and Veere were wonderful as were the Dutch markets.  Went to the beach at Domburg for a chilly North Sea paddle!  The Dutch were very pleasant,  - ice cream for 1 euro and refreshments were much more reasonably priced than France.  Drivers were considerate and cyclists everywhere!  Really pleased we decided to go there as much as we love France this was a very pleasant change.  Obviously a very under-rated area by the Brits as we only saw 2 British cars during our stay. Definitely worth a visit.


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Personlgmagib
28/8/2008 at 5:14pm
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Hi Sunseeker, we were the other side of Veerse Meer near to the town of Kamperland. The Meer is a fantastic place for the water sports isn't it. I totally agree with you it's a fantastic area to go to, the prices where really good, we got Ice creams for 80 cents a couple of times and they were nice freshly made ice creams non of the rubbish we get here out of a machine.  We never got down to Domburg but we did visit the beach up by the storm surge barrier a number of times and the North Sea wasn't that cold whilst we were there.   The cycling is brilliant isn't it, not only did we all enjoy it but it was good for us, I lost nearly ½ a stone just by cycling around, it's something we are determined to keep up now that we are home.  Glad you enjoyed it, it's definatelyl somewhere we will go again.

Liz


Personsunseeker10
28/8/2008 at 5:42pm
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We caught the ferry from Veere to Kamperland on one of our cycle rides so we probably went past your campsite.  Unfortunately we were too late to get the ferry back at Kortgene and had to cycle over the bridge - we were getting a bit weary by then. We did go up to the storm surge barrier but didn't stop as we were getting short of time.  Fantastic area for watersports and now we would like to go further up through Holland.  We came back to France for our last night through the Westerscheld tunnel which cuts out a fair distance and had a lovely 3 course meal for 16 euros in St Omer where we were stopping for the night.  You can still eat well in France for a  reasonable price but other stuff is just as expensive as over here.  Never mind, have stocked up on wine boxes for the winter (well that's the theory as we are always surprised when it doesn't even last until Christmas).  Am really surprised how much we enjoyed our holiday in Holland - so thank you for your post!  Who knows where next year?


Personross99
28/8/2008 at 5:51pm
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Spent my hols in Bergen-op-zoom (3 days) and Texel (7 days), saw one other GB plated car queuing for the ferry to Texel. Lots of cycling and a great time, I have a slight bias as my girlfriend is Dutch but I love the place, all except the driving, the Dutch are almost as bad as the Belgiums! What I did notice is that I must stick out like a sore thumb as being a Brit as even the Germans spoke English to me, had a funny time at the ferry booth buying a ticket with the woman in the booth speaking English as she saw we were in a GB plated car and my G/F speaking Dutch in return.

Ross


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PersonKathryn007
28/8/2008 at 7:03pm
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i havent camped in holland but know friends who have and they had a brills time.

we have been to centerparcs in holland tho 6 times, always had great weather too in august

half the price of uk and hardly any brits....i'm welsh too by the way............
ferry only 85 quid from calais....longdrive from devon tho

the dutch are wonderful hosts with excellent english just about everywhere.

highly recommended

sorry no caps in post as can only use 1 hand 2day.....

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28/8/2008 at 7:10pm
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Quote: What I did notice is that I must stick out like a sore thumb as being a Brit as even the Germans spoke English to me



It wasn't the socks with the sandals was it?

I'll get my coat...

Liz


Personross99
28/8/2008 at 7:39pm
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Quote: Originally posted by lizex on 28/8/2008
Quote: What I did notice is that I must stick out like a sore thumb as being a Brit as even the Germans spoke English to me

It wasn't the socks with the sandals was it?

I'll get my coat...

Liz

lol, more my height, the Dutch are a tall race. I'm not your average Brit tho, long bleached hair, shorts, and bright yellow crocs and no coat, not what the average Dutch person would look like lol


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28/8/2008 at 8:57pm
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Quote: Originally posted by David Klyne on 16/8/2008

The clever thing in Europe is to find a site without any Dutch! ............. its very unusual to find a site with none of them there!

David



Try Holland

But of all the sites we were on this year, it was Dutch caravanners who made up the majority.   Two of them were Brit free. 1 had one other Brit on and another had one Brit until the arrival of a party of 38 on an Owners Club rally.


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28/8/2008 at 9:07pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Rostrevor on 28/8/2008
Quote: Originally posted by David Klyne on 16/8/2008

The clever thing in Europe is to find a site without any Dutch! ............. its very unusual to find a site with none of them there!

David

Try Holland

But of all the sites we were on this year, it was Dutch caravanners who made up the majority.   Two of them were Brit free. 1 had one other Brit on and another had one Brit until the arrival of a party of 38 on an Owners Club rally.

How quickly could we pack when that sort of group starts to arrive? One year we bumped into the advance guard. We were out of there the next morning. The 20 foot flag-pole with the Union Jack on the top and the lights flashing up and down it was just too much.
Alan
Alan


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29/8/2008 at 10:01pm
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Quote: Originally posted by lgmagib on 16/8/2008

I will do a full review later, but our main shock was that only ONCE in all the times we where cycling round the area - and we cycled everywhere - did we see another British car and that was in a car park of the nearest big town Middelburg - a fantastic place to visit by the way.


Every year (for the last three years) I've gone camping with my Dutch extended family on small rural sites in the middle of nowhere, and I've never noticed any British people who weren't me. (And my car has Dutch plates, so nobody would have known I was British unless they heard my dodgy accent.)

At this year's Pentecost camp (a family tradition) the camping owner didn't even speak Dutch! (He spoke the local dialect, which I couldn't understand a word of. Luckily my mother-in-law grew up in the region and could understand it just fine.)

This year's Big Holiday was in Champagne, and needless to say the Dutch were doing their very best to outnumber the French on site. It's difficult to exaggerate how popular camping (especially in France) is here. Our daily newspaper - aimed at highly-educated young professionals - has a regular feature where readers send in photos on a given theme, and one is published every day. This week's theme was "How tidy is your tent?", and that was a completely normal question for them to ask.

Even on my first adult camping trip (three years ago) when I was almost dragged along by my (Dutch) wife, the little rural campsite in Denmark we went to (remember how hot 2005 was? Too hot for us to head south!) had a majority of Dutch campers.


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We too were in Holland this year and got back last Saturday- Camping in de Bongerd, Oostkapelle, Zeeland (excellent site). I can only echo all the other positive comments about the country and this area in particular. Middleburg and Veere were both particularly pretty. We also noticed the complete and refreshing lack of Brits and only noticed 2 other cars with GB plates during the whole fortnight. But on reading this topic it appears that there were far more of us there than appearances would suggest- how did we all manage to avoid each other?


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              The clever thing in Europe is to find a site without any Dutch!

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That's because the're all over here!



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