Day 9 - Renesse to Hellevoetsluis

A baking hot day here. The kind of day where you get little shimmering mirages over to the top of roads. I walked between a long land bridge between two Dutch islands and it was like walking through a vast concrete desert. I thought my shoes were going to stick to the ground. Kept myself watered though, and I put loads of suntan lotion on so I should be fine.

Am now in Hellevoetsluis, where I'm camped at a very nice campsite just outside of town. Am heading in now to find something for dinner and maybe a pint of beer by a canal.

Tomorrow I'm heading to Rotterdam, and after that I'm going to Utrecht to stay at a friend's house. I can't wait, life in a tent has its positive points, but I miss beds and pillows and stuff.

Day 8 - Westkappel to Renesse

Things worked out pretty good last night. There were two 17 year old dutch girls, Carmen and Janine, camping next to me, so we got talking and ended up going out to swim in the surf as the sun set. Afterwards we had vodka and orange juice on the beach.

Got to sleep pretty easy, but it rained a hell of a lot over the night and early morning so I had to take my tent down in the drizzle. Not much fun. After that I walked up the coast, and hopped on a bus to take me over the bridge to the next island. Wasn't much fun walking today, the clouds were grey and omnipresent, so I decided to stop in this place.

A kindly old dutch woman gave me permission to camp in her garden. I'm going to assume she gave permission anyway, her English wasn't so great. I'm currently in the town square having a look around. Seems nice enough, although my feet are very, very sore, which is distracting.