Two months after we left Amsterdam, we have returned home, leaving some 5627 kilometres behind us. The corpse of a partially mummified mouse greeted us upon entering the house.
The journey from Karlovy Vary to Kassel in Germany yesterday was really quite bad. There were roadworks at frequent intervals and torrential rain worked to further slow our journey. We did not arrive in Kassel until the early evening.
Today, in contrast, we drove the 400 or so kilometres from Kassel to Amsterdam in under 3.5 hours, including a stop to fill the tank, leaving us enough time to do some groceries before the local shops closed.
I could scarcely heave open the front door, because of the mountain of post behind it. I hard to force my way through to turn off the alarm.
The garden is totally out of control. We need to get a gardener in to take care of the jungle that has flourished in our absence.
Apart from that, everything is as we left it. The coming days will be taken up with receiving furniture deliveries and getting our administration back up to date.