In the middle of the night, two chicks decided to sit by the lake (which is in front of our tent) and start singing Lady Gaga out loud. I was ready to get up and tell them off, but Bruttone stopped me because he was scared they had guns and knives (…). Anyway, at that hour I wasn’t able to fully reason so I probably couldn’t say anything more than “Shut up!” . 

Besides a pee break at 7.00, we finally woke up at 9.00. As soon as we sat in the car for breakfast it started raining! 

We waited for the bus to reach the city for a while, then we got bored and we decided to take a little walk while waiting. Too bad that we took a different route than the bus one. Eventually, after 50 minutes, we arrived downtown.

As usual, we found the “Festival of Culture”. The best thing about the city is the Gothic-style church where, in theory, you can’t take pictures. At lunch-time, we already visited the city so we decided to go back and see the Haar Castle which is located just outside Utrecht. 

Once there, the counter girl wasn’t good at explaining so, long story short, we bought the tour with an English guide for 19euros, parking included. While we waited for the tour to start, we walked around in the castle park. There were fawns in a corner of the garden. We found out that these animals resemble alien-sheep more than you would think. They are pack animals, they do what the leader does and they make the same sound. 

Bruttone traumatized the pack leader by pretending to give him a waffle. The poor fellow found himself licking the fence while Bruttone pulled the waffle away. Eventually we discovered that fawns also like this typical dessert. 

The castle was truly spectacular, and the guide, as well as being very prepared, was explaining things in a very interesting way and spoke perfect English. 

After the castle, we tried to visit the Air Force museum, but it had closed five minutes earlier.

Dinner:

• Mushroom cream (the best eaten so far)
• Seafood soup (spectacular)
• Fillets of meat (taken yesterday but it packed us to the gills)

Scene of the journey

a couple of days ago we were looking at a flock of sheep and Pollo started wondering how humans figured out how to spin wool. Today we passed by a sheep and Pollo says: “They have an ugly face though. They almost look like aliens… In fact they are aliens, who came to Earth and then got drugged by eating grass. Grass is the drug that stoned the sheep. And the horses are the sheep’s gods, they’re stoned by the grass too”.