I do my best to categorize all the different posts. In fact it is quite simple as long as I avoid the human error factor.
Here you will find the posts I uploaded while being on the road with our 4wheelmachine. We used to travel with our Mercedes 4×4 Hymer Camper MLT-580. We, sort of, sold it in 2024.
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Yes thats right. Our Hymer MLT-580 4×4 is for sale. Since i don’t have the power anymore to hike and bike, we are selling her? Her or him?
Whatever, it is time for new adventures!
Please search on Marktplaats for more information.
Or as we say ‘Mien Stadsje’. We’re killing time in Harlingen. The weather is fine. The city is nice, especially now in summer. Olympics and F1 on television. It’s wonderful for cycling and walking. There’s really nothing to grumble about.
So I’m bored.
So we’re back in the Netherlands. A couple of weeks ago a very nice Swedish doctor advised me to see a specialist back home. The sooner the better. And as everybody knows, I always listen to good advice, so we jumped on a plane about a week later. Leaving our beloved onehullfloatinglady behind.
Well I didn’t really jumped, suffering from serious shortness of breath and dizziness when moving faster than slow at the time, but we made it.
So far so good. After visiting specialists and hospital it seems there’s a little problem with my heart. It’s not pumping strongly enough. Which was very surprising to me. As I didn’t even knew it was still there as I though that I had given it to Leonie ages ago.
But ok, I spare you the details, we’re now waiting for an appointment for an MRI-scan. And waiting and waiting. Waiting …
And since patience is one of my good qualities, we decided to make the best of it and wait for what is to come together with our 4wheelmachine.
Don’t they always say, home is where your heart is?
Thanks to Vincent, Tamme, Leo and Kees i passed my C1 drivers license this morning. Now we can finally hit the road with our 4wheelmachine. And by that i mean, completely official. I can’t help it that we only last winter discovered the maximum approved weight of our camper was above the 3500kg. Besides that, the text on the registration certificate is really very, very small and nobody told us and we can’t read and never listen and we are stupid. And we’ve been very lucky nobody checked us.
So the circle is completed and confirmed again, luck is with the stupid. No argue on that one.
On my way back home I landed in Butjadingen at the Wezer estuary. Where? Butjadingen! But I’m not sure that’s the right name, may be the place is called Fedderwardersiel. I don’t know. It is between Klein Fedderwarden and Gross Fedderwarden, near Hollwarden, Syuggewarden, Langwarden and so on. Do you get it?
The last one, that’s the box for our 1wheelfloatinglady this summer season. The only thing I have to do now is find a crew and sail her to Danmark. The long way through the Limfjord would be nice plan 😉
I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to go to Sylt, but my curiosity was, as always, unstoppable. Specially because the only way to get to the island is by train. I just had to experience that. And I got value for my money, driving about 200 meters backwards on a train because vans with roof hatches are only transported in forward position. Which is quite logical. What I didn’t expect were the locations of the train stations. Not directly near the coast, like a harbour, but in cities inland on both sides. I’m sure there is a reason for that.
I stayed for a couple of days on a little camperpark site in the south of the isle. If you like cycling and walking there are enough possibilities. The beach is about 40 kilometers long. I think you have to pay to get on the beach at some places during the summer. There is not much forrest on Sylt but surely some variety of nature and lots of dunes and heath. There’s enough to do and see on the island.
Despite it being early in the season, the little villages with lots of summer houses, are quiet but they are not extinct. Not all restaurants were already open, but more then enough to go out at least every day for two month or so. The main city on the island was ok for now. I certainly don’t feel the need to visit the island in summertime. In fact I would prefer a summer sleep in a remote cave somewhere at the end of the world, but that’s me.
What i noticed? Lots of Porsches, there’s a unique protected sea-area for porpoises, the sea dikes have already been built according to the latest standards, also lots of germans and again I couldn’t find a ‘Currywurstbude’.
I think Sylt was ok, for now.
There’s not much to tell about. It’s a very nice little island, perfect for a bike tour. And that’s what I did. If you go all around it’s about 48km, flat, hardly any dunes, but with good cycle paths and roads. It’s Germany, so it is organized, clean and …., well did I mention it is German? I enjoyed my ride, forgot of course that after 25km my knee stops cooperating. Then I had to stop anyway because of a flat tyre, which saved my enthusiasm for a couple of kilometers. After that I focussed on the first ‘Currywurstbude’ for some new energy and vitamins. I passed one earlier on but by the time I found another one in the little town of Wijk it was also time to board. And you should never rush eating a ‘Currywurst’, everybody knows that.
Even now this important part of todays mission failed, the isle of Föhr was certainly worth the visit.
