When we left Belgium, we first went to Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands. It's the first time I've ever been there. And I must say that Amsterdam has something no other capital city has shown to me. It feels like a small village, where you would love to live. Everywhere small streets, thousands of bikes, small houses, streets where children play. Where are the big buildings? The impressive churches? The expensive houses? Everything is so small and yes that makes A'dam quite special but strolling through her small streets you keep wandering where the glamour en prestige of the capital city has gone?

After a good night sleep, we took our flight to London (where we had 45 minutes to change flights) to Toronto (where we had 30 minutes time to change flights, go through migration, pick up our luggage en recheck them in. You want believe it but we've done it and even more unbelievable our luggage did the same. You keep wandering how they manage to do it.

When we flew over Canada we only saw snow. At that time we realized how crazy it is to travel to Canada with a motorhome early spring.

When we woke up in Vancouver: the sky was blue and the sun was shining. We couldn't believe it but it was at least 18 degrees and sitting in the sun even more. After an hour of explanation we headed for our first provincial park: Lake Cultus.
The sun was shining beautiful, Nico made a big fire and sitting in our shorts we enjoyed our first night. Deborah told me that het family said spring was in the air: and sure are right.
Driving with such a huge motorhome is quite comfortable. If only it would consume not so much gasoline. Right now we have driven 700 km and have filled her up with 270 liter gas (and this is a new baby – only 20.000 km – imagine what an old one consumes).

We are however a little bit disappointed in the provincial parks – there actually only a small campground next to a highway. The campgrounds are wonderful, especially when you compare them with RV parks (which really are hell, yesterday we payed for one night but after using the dump station and staying for 1 hour we're so depressed that we simply leave and move on to the next provincial park) Since most provincial parks are only campgrounds there are not many trails and if there is one well it's only 2,5 km – no this is not what I call a trail. So were dreaming a little a bit about the wonderful national parks in Australia and the USA.

What Canada does have , is extraordinary views. They are really awesome. Seeing the lakes and the mountains: you just enjoy looking at them for hours.

We're now heading for the Canadian Rockies. At this moment we have 50 cm of snow around us.
Greetings from Revelstoke.