{"id":17,"date":"2017-03-04T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/?p=17"},"modified":"2017-03-12T07:18:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T06:18:21","slug":"from-the-uk-to-nl-in-30-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/2017\/03\/from-the-uk-to-nl-in-30-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"From the UK to NL in 30 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I set off on my Dutch Road trip yesterday at 06:30, having stayed in a hotel just off the M26 on Thursday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The actual journey was 9 hours (about 5 hours of actual driving time). I&#8217;ve condensed that in to one much shorter video &#8211; so you can get a taste of the route I took.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; here&#8217;s my video &#8211; showing my journey from the UK to the Netherlands in just 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktLQE4xtCxg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was a fairly simple drive &#8211; and essentially there were 3 different sections to the route I took. The The French and Balgian motorways, then round the Ghent Ring Road, and then in to the Netherlands and up to Schouwen-Duiveland.<\/p>\n<p>Coming out of Calais I joined the Autoroute (motorway) A16 and within an hour I had crossed in to Belgium, the A16 now becoming the A18. I stopped briefly in De Panne on the coast &#8211; then continued on the motorway until I reached the A10 (just 30 minutes of driving).<\/p>\n<p>Another stop in a service station to grab a quick sandwhich, then I was back on the road. Within another 40 minutes I was turning off the A10 on to the R4, the Ghent Ring-Road, part of which is full motorway standard, part of which turned out to be very slow yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I spent most of the time on the R4 ignoring what the Sat Nav was telling me, because it was trying to route me round the long way &#8211; via Antwerp &#8211; avoiding the toll tunnel\u00a0 but adding an extra 2 hours to the journey time. Eventually, while stopped at a set of lights, I managed to reprogramme the sat nav and it was routing me where I wanted to go.<\/p>\n<p>After crossing in to the Netherlands I was travelling mainly on the &#8216;N&#8217; roads, with a short stretch of motorway. I crossed under the Western Scheldt estuary using the <strong>Westerscheldetunnel<\/strong>, then after crossing on to the island of Noord-Beveland I drove over the <strong>Zeeland Bridge<\/strong> on to the island of Schouwen-Duiveland &#8211; my final destination being Noordgouwe in the middle of the island.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival in my accomodation the host met me and showed me to the apartment &#8211; in the attic of the garage! I unpacked my stuff and had a bit of a rest after all that driving.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m just going to trundle about locally. On Sunday I&#8217;m going up to Amsterdam, then on Monday I&#8217;m driving all the way back to sunny England.<\/p>\n<p>FH.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/03\/WP_20170303_12_04_47_Pro.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/03\/WP_20170303_12_04_47_Pro-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-19'>\n\t\t\t\tMy car on the Eurotunnel.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/03\/WP_20170303_13_57_54_Pro.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/03\/WP_20170303_13_57_54_Pro-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20'>\n\t\t\t\tDe Panne, Belgium\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/03\/WP_20170304_08_12_55_Pro.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/03\/WP_20170304_08_12_55_Pro-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-21'>\n\t\t\t\tMy view of the village from my apartment.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set off on my Dutch Road trip yesterday at 06:30, having stayed in a hotel just off the M26 on Thursday night. The actual journey was 9 hours (about 5 hours of actual driving time). I&#8217;ve condensed that in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,6,5,7,3],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving","tag-belgium","tag-dashcam","tag-driving","tag-france","tag-netherlands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/nlroadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}