We awoke to find the Hotel had no hot water for a shower which was a bit of a pain but we ate our last remaining bread rolls with cheese and a cuppa for a cup of tea. There is not need to spend about 18 Euros for a small breakfast each and so we decided where possible we would provide our own breakfast and snacks en-route.
We left Stuttgart, a city being rebuilt after it looks like a bomb had dropped on it and then headed for the Motorway in the direction of Heidelberg. We have a long journey today and so made the decision not to use the country routes as we need to travel for quite some hours and eventually we arrived at the old town of Heidelberg where we planned to try and see the old castle but unless you stop for a couple of hours that would be difficult as it was surrounded by trees and perhaps the only way to enjoy is is in a helicopter. However we drove around the town for while and alongside the river and we too a few photos which hopefully might come out.
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Then back to the Autobahn and of we went and the amount of trucks on the road I can only say was phenomenal and I thought the amount of trucks in UK was bad but this make our trucks like amateurs, god knows what they will do in the future as they need to move some of to the railways. We stopped in a rather rubbishy motorway service station and noticed the mount of rubbish lying everywhere which came as a shock when in Munich and Stuttgart there was absolutely none , I guess its a question of pride. En-route there were lots of road works and at one point the amount of trucks lined up in a queue after a problem on the Autobahn and I can honestly say its the longest queue we have ever seen as it must have gone on for about 20 miles or so but thank heavens on our side not so much. We crossed the border from Germany in to the Netherlands and made our way to a town called Sittard where we are stay at the Doubletree Hotel there.
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The Hotel was a brand new one which only opened at the end of last year and had been converted from and old school and so the decorations reflected its history with old desks, tiled walls and the small nave turned in to a rather nice bar where we enjoyed a pre dinner drink.
The bar
For dinner we stayed in the Hotel as by this time it was raining very hard and pointless to explore the town looking for somewhere to eat when we could eat at the in the HOtel. The food was very good and we both agreed we would be happy to return here another time for a few days. And so to bed.
