Taz and David wonder about the point of a climbing wall in a country as flat as Holland

Thursday 20^th May 2010

Groningen, Holland

A free night tonight in the car park of yet another amazing sports complex. Unfortunately the slots for campervans were filled with cars so we parked over the road next to a dyke/canal. There was a great view for David during tea when he was transfixed by the training session in the sandpit outside the ski centre (?!)for the ladies beach volleyball team, but we discovered that there were various very noisy nocturnal creatures living in the water. Fortunately the noise was broken up occasionally when a nearby refrigerated truck fired up its cooling until at regular intervals so we didn’t get chance to become bored by (and tune out) the din from the water.

PS kids - Dad says he is going to take up climbing when we get home - oh is that the sound of laughter wafting over the North Sea?