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Flights #8 completed (Prague - Dusseldorf)
Flight miles: 340 (11,244 total to date)
Flight time: 1:15 (28:59 total to date)

We flew through pea soup from Prague to Dusseldorf on a Canadair regional jet (I've been annoying my co-workers pointing out everything made by Canadians this trip so I thought I'd pass that along). The purpose of this leg was to visit a site in Southwestern Netherlands so we were to drive from Dusseldorf. We got the rental car, which is one of the most complicated processes in Europe, we really have this down much better in North America! In any case, we neglected to really set this up properly as the car we reserved was big enough for 4 people, but not for 4 Americans with a pile of luggage. After trying for 30 minutes to cram all the bags in we had to give up and go back and ask for a bigger car, which meant going through the process all over again.

In any case, the end result is that I now can say that I drove a Mercedes on the Autobahn...it was a Mercedes station wagon and it was pouring rain so I never made it much above 120 kph, but who's counting? After arriving in Venray in Holland at our hotel we made another unpleasant discovery, the hotel was supposed to be booked for 2 nights but they only had us down for 1 night so there was no room in the inn for us. There's some conference in Dusseldorf that is consuming all of the hotel rooms for miles (err...kilometers) around but I managed to find the last 4 hotel rooms available in Southeastern Netherlands. And that is how I come to be writing this post from a hotel in Deurne that used to be a monastery (check out the pictures).

We're really out in the country here, smells of cow....quite a change for Prague, that's for sure! I have to say that Prague is probably the most beautiful city I've ever been in. Attached is a couple more pictures, consider them cheap postcards.