We left the Netherlands on November 4th from Marc's brother's house. Patrick, Hidde, Frederieke and Florine were there to send us on our way.
It was a slow but at times beautiful trip through France and Spain. We said we would only stop for nice and warm weather, well we are still looking for it. We are now in Marbella and it has been reasonable. Some sunny and warm days but also quite some rain. On some of the pictures you can see that there was some major flooding in the south of Spain.
On our way down to Spain we ran into a couple more issues with Duma. I guess she did not appreciate being in a barn for three years. The biggest issue was that the household batteries were not being charged while we were driving. Besides that Rosana's feet were getting wet when driving in the rain, the ventilator gave out when we passed Madrid and then there were a couple of minor things. So we spent a few days with Koen of Twiga Travelcars in Spain. Most of the problems are fixed now and as a bonus Marc got a crash course in Unimog maintenance. Thanks Koen.
Koen also shared some of his travel adventures when he took his Unimog to Mongolia. We only hope that Marc will not spend as much time under the Unimog as Koen did on his trip (Well that will not happen as Marc will quickly determine that he will not be able to fix it anyway).
On the way back from Koen another problem surfaced, the dashboard lights all start to blink when we drive, like it is already X-mass. Hopefully we will be able to take care of that problem next week so we can finally take the boat to Morocco. In the mean time we spend our time on a camping with retired "Netherland" (today is Saturday so Marc will join the rest of the camping and give Duma a good scrub.....not)
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