Chapter 2: Saturday September 24th, 1977
ROTTERDAM - CLOSED FOR THE DAY

The boat docked at 6.30 a.m. Sleepy Morris Men stumbled to the car deck, boarded the van, and trundled out into Vlissingen (alias Flushing) Holland. As they stood in the queue of traffic someone mentioned that the off-side head lamp cover was loose; the mechanical genii amongst them leapt out with a shout of “We'll fix it!”, and went at it hammer and tongs. As they stood back to admire their handiwork - the cover fell off. “*******!”. The head lamp cover was thrown in the van - to be dealt with later. Meanwhile Bill had quietly attached his “EARLS OF ESSEX MORRIS MEN” stickers to the back, doors.

They passed through Immigration without any problems and made their way across the flat, boring countryside until they came to Rotterdam, where they encountered their first traffic difficulty - how to turn left across the traffic when your in the “outside” (for England) lane: