Visit Lons family

We (the family) rented a house in France for a week to see each other. My brother lives in Ireland, we live in Rwanda and my sister and parents in the east (hardly Netherlands). So this seemed a good solution.


The house we rented

The ferry landed around 18.30 in France and we had at least 3 hours drive ahead of us. So a quick meal at a french Mac. Donalds like place and of we went. It turned out that we had the route discription for the place but neglected to print out the actual address. oops. We found the road at around midnight and looked closely at the houses for signs of messy children, Dutch cars and lights left on. None of the above. So we finally decided the go back to the highway and stay in a roadside hotel. There were 4. Number 1 (formula 1) was full, number 2 did not like our card, not our bankcard, nor our master or English Visa. Stupid machine. The computer of number three showed three kinds of room, and only one sort available, so I pressed that button, after entering more data it decided the sort of room I choose was not available. I started to feel like all computers needed to be burnt on a stake together with their programmers. Hotel 4 seemed closed, with a big gate. Desparately I tried the little sidegate and could get in. The computer even worked and gave me a key and code for the gate; the computers are saved (not sure yet about the programmers).

After all this we had a lovely week with all the family. The highlight was a visit to the Astrix park where the kids could play a lot of games, very inventive. Fighting of and with 7 nieces and nephews was very exhausting though. Unfortunately my sister and family had to return a day early; Wouters father was taken to hospital with heavy bleeding, a scary situation, but he pulled through.