After visiting some more shops we had a coffee and a brownie and then we walked to the stunt show.
They pretended to make a movie and did the stunts like car chase and bike jumps.
The show was realy impressive and very well done. It started with some wheelies on a bike, not so
spectaculair but a little later they started the "movie making" and did some amazing things. Some
cars and a few bikes, all sliding and spinning around eachother without touching. Very good.
Car jump in the stunt show
A flaming bike jump
The stunt show lasted about 45 minutes and then we watched the parade go by and did a tour with
a small train. With the train, we passed some studio things like a burning truck with a waterfall
and a lot of things used in movies. You have to go there and see it for yourself.
After a while we walked from Disney Studios to Disneyland Park to see the more "traditional" Disney
things. The highlight ofcourse is the castle in the center of Disneyland. It is realy very nice.
The famous castle at the end of Main street
Main street is one big expensive shopping center
Finaly I found a nice coat and with my new coat on, we walked past the castle and bought a hotdog. Then we
had a coffee again and while we were in line for the coffee, I saw a small sign that told it all about
the Disney experience......Spend your money here......
And this is what it is all about......
But I have to be honest, it is expensive but you get what you payed for. It is all very well done
and we were having a very good time.
While we were in line to pay for the coffee, two of our sons found us and had some hot chocolat with
us. Together we walked to Captain Hook's pirate ship and into Robinson Crusoe his tree house.
We visited "Frontier land" and had a space tour in a Star Wars style space ship and then we went back
to Disney village for dinner.
Captain Hook's pirate ship
The bus was leaving at half past seven so we had to hurry. We bought some Bigmac menu's and Happy meals
at the MacDonalds and quickly walked to the bus.
Later that evening, back at the hotel, we ate the BigMac's in our hotel room, with some cookies,
some lemonade and apples. An indoor picknick. We had a fun evening.
Disney village in the evening
The last day of our short holiday. Breakfast at eight and the bus was leaving at nine. We had
packed most of our luggage yesterday. I loaded the bike before breakfast so we were ready to
leave.
When the bus had left, I started the bike and left too. The bus was going into Paris for some sightseing
and a walk in Paris. (later at home I learned that they had seen almost nothing and the guided
tour was not guided. The passengers were dumped out of the bus, without a map or directions and had to
return in time to go home. I was glad I was on my bike riding home).
The bus is leaving
I had a very nice trip home. Because it was very clouded today, I had an extra T-shirts and I was very
happy with my handlebar heating..... With all that I was comfortabel and again, avoiding the "Peage" I
took the N2 North to Belgium.
On my way North I passed some very nice roads through forests and I also drove through or past some towns
in the North of France like Laon, on a hill or Froitemont and Bas-Lieu.
Laon on a hill
Froitmont
Bas-Lieu
Just passed the Belgian border, I stopped for gas at the same Esso gasstation that I used on my way to
the South. I had a cappuccino again and then I drove on past Brussels to Antwerp.
Traffic around Antwerp was very intense but it did not stop so no problem. Then I crossed the Dutch
border and after 858 km on the BMW I was home again at a quarter past two PM.
To safe Erika the three hour bus trip from Nuland to Bergen op Zoom, I took our KIA van and drove to Nuland,
+/- 115 km from home, to drive her and the children home. The bus should arrive at six but it did not
arrive until almost eight. Fortunately, the bus stop is behind a restaurant so I had a good diner while
I was waiting.
And finaly they arrived
After collecting the luggage from the bus and loading it in our car, we drove home and this night we
slept in our own beds again.
Epilog
An organised bus trip is not our "thing". While I was on my bike and not on the bus, I heard what
happend during the bus trip after the trip.
It took them a twelve hour trip to get from home to Bergen op Zoom to Nuland to Paris.
Some of the promissed excursions in Paris were not possible.
We did NOT have rooms next to eachother in the hotel and our youngest son and daughter had one
double bed in their hotel room so we had to arrange a solution for that.
The children and Erika could not sit next to eachother in the bus
In Disneyland we had to hurry not to miss the bus and could not see the light parade in the evening.
On the ride home, Erika had to sit, trapped for hours, between two "not so skinny" and unfriendly
people in the back of the bus.......
We had a very nice time in Disney. Paris is a very nice town but next time I know for sure we'll
organise our own trip.(and I was so very happy to be on the bike and not in the bus....).
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