Maximal exposure on our Horse Drawn Caravan Journey
We experience maximal exposure on our next spot. After our visit on the gypsy caravan camping site, we hit the road again. We are heading north because we want to see some family. The first village we approach is Boxtel. It’s a small community with a well-known ecological park. They delivered the technical drawings for our composting toilet. I hope that we are able to visit this place because we need some additions. We make a detour for it so let’s hope it’s open. It’s easily found but the next challenge is where to leave the horses while we are in. Then we see the bicycle stand and that makes things easy.
Assistance Needed Inside the eco exhibited, we learn that the shop is closed. We can only visit parts of the centre and we decide to leave, empty-handed. On top of that, it’s not easy to turn the caravan around on the small parking place. We try and try but at the end, we need some assistance from a young couple. Only after we decide to unharness the horses and make the turn manual we succeed.
The trip after that adventure is not smoothly. Inexperienced as we are we take a bike road ending up at a roundabout and we get stuck. Only with effort from bystanders, we get on the road again. Maximal exposure indeed but with the wrong feeling. We cross-over a highway and the horses keep still and quit, as if they have done this kind of driving for ages. We get lost in Oirschot and when I ask the right direction, a elderly woman rushes into her house to give us a detailed map! After lunch, we get several phone calls from family living in the neighborhood. With a can of coffee, they visit us and we get the chance to talk about all what is passed the last few day’s.
Valentine's Day Then we have to concentrate to find a place for the night. Purely on instinct, we choose a road and ending up on Rene and Marjo’s place. Because of our difficulties with the horses hoofs we decide to ask for a blacksmith. In a few day’s he has time and luckily, we can stay here. That means I am also able to celebrate my birthday on Valentines Day. Our family picks us up and we have a great evening in a barbeque restaurant.
Maximal Exposure John also gets a chance to buy a new battery, the old one on the bicycle carrier. The day before we decide to leave, we receive a phone call from the broadcast company. They want to film our progress and if we can arrange our next places to stay. Not an unusual question because this program has mediate between host families and us. On the same day we all so gets a call from Dennis. He is a student photographer contacting us for his final exam project. Of course, he is also welcome. To make it all complete, Bart the son of the house wants to make pictures too for his school project. Maybe a bit over exposure but we warm us in the glow and signs of sympathy. What a wonderful week with maximal exposure and more fun to come. Let’s go to Veghel.
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