It Was The Summer Of '91
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lupestripeI know some of you enjoy reading my travel journals so I thought I would share my first ever diary with you. It details my first trip abroad, to a Center Parcs in the Netherlands, in the summer of 1991. I was eight years old so the language used is hardly the most sophisticated. I will type it as written though, with spelling mistakes intact.
Day 1 - Friday (Vijdag) 9 August
The jorney was hot we met 4 loads of roadworks. The Dartford tunnel was blue yellow and red and a new Dartford bridge. Plus a tunnel in Belgium. Yellow lights with and green arrows. We saw the white rocks of Dover. The ship is called Sealink it travel's at 15 knots (12mph). We also saw the wake. When we walked it seemed like we're going up and down. Frane was nice and so was Belgium. The Swimming Bath's were good sprayes and tunnels it was very good. BUT I AM NOT WELL! The cottage was No 949 and it had a bunk bed and 2 doble beds. In here you can dine in Luxary.
Day 2 - Saturday (Zaterdag) 10 August
This morning we went shopping and we got lost in Enidhoven but at last we got back but I'm still not well. This Afternoon we went to the swimming baths again. This is what it's like. There's a bridge, waterslides, little waterfalls (It is quite deep), wave machines, outdoor pool, Scary things, whirlpools, and bubble beds. In the Shopping Centre there's 3 stone town halls with a pool and stepping stones and a bridge. Today we got lost!
Day 3 - Sunday (Zondag) 11 August
Today we played all 18 obstical's of the mini golf (I won). Then we had a look round the village's. We saw another windmill (We bought the postcards this morning) and posted them. Then we went to McDonalds then swimming. On our outing we saw how wooden clogs were made it took a very long time. Then in the clogs they made patterns. First we watched a video of how you make clogs with tools and things. Then the ladie's expland how they work and showed us things in real life at the musem. (First the clogs are made from trees). But there's a shop but only sell clogs. The golf club's and balls were hierd from a yellow hut (Also for water sports). The golf obstical's were 1 a straight corse for a taste of it 2 was 2 bumps 3 was a ramp -----/ 4 was a mound 5 was a thin + thick thing And all the rest were simmerler. I'm nearly better! Now I have finished. Goodbye.
Day 4 - Monday (Modag) 12 August
Today, we sit on the patio, in the dark. This morning we went on a lake on number 2 peddleo boats it was a very big lake. Now we have found zone 4. Its better. Tomorrow we are biking all around Center Parcs. I've wrote a letter for all maps of Center Parcs In Europe. And this Afternoon we saw an Island and train's and a station in Enidhoven. See you towarrow.
Day 5 - Tuesday (Dinsdag) 13 August
Today we went biking round zones 0 to 9 Seeing Dog's Toilet's Bushalte's and Telefoons. We went quite fast but still had to go on the right car side of the road. Zone 7 is quite lonley. Zone 1 is hanging off the end. The speed limit was 15 kilimeters per hour. We also crossed bridges. We saw Everything, We saw lights leasure things we went 2 miles. Then we went down paths then swimming.
This is the map of Center Parks (these two pages are blank)
Day 6 - Wednesday (Woensdag) 14 August
Today we went to a 2nd World War musem then we saw lights in the dark. We also went on the bus round 2 times stopping at bushalte's. The 3rd carrage was in repair the rest were clean.
Day 7 - Thursday (Donderdag) 15 August
Today we did things that we enjoyed again aswell as traveling on the bus called the Center Parcs Express.
At the end of the book
It look like I got 116 in the aforementioned minigolf match but I won't relay the hole-by-hole scores of a golf match which took place over twenty years ago.
P.S.
Sorry Not Neat!
Friday Our cokker had no maches and A light Explodid.
Zaterdag Sarah broke a picture.
Our telephone's glass is broken.
There's a Center Parks bus.
The toilet wouldn't flush.
So there you go, an account of my trip to Center Parcs as an eight-year-old, unedited. Perhaps a little indulgent but I want to keep an account of it so transcribing it online is probably for the best. Strangely, me nearly drowning in the wave machine and having to be rescued by a burly moustacheod Dutchman wasn't mentioned.
Day 1 - Friday (Vijdag) 9 August
The jorney was hot we met 4 loads of roadworks. The Dartford tunnel was blue yellow and red and a new Dartford bridge. Plus a tunnel in Belgium. Yellow lights with and green arrows. We saw the white rocks of Dover. The ship is called Sealink it travel's at 15 knots (12mph). We also saw the wake. When we walked it seemed like we're going up and down. Frane was nice and so was Belgium. The Swimming Bath's were good sprayes and tunnels it was very good. BUT I AM NOT WELL! The cottage was No 949 and it had a bunk bed and 2 doble beds. In here you can dine in Luxary.
Day 2 - Saturday (Zaterdag) 10 August
This morning we went shopping and we got lost in Enidhoven but at last we got back but I'm still not well. This Afternoon we went to the swimming baths again. This is what it's like. There's a bridge, waterslides, little waterfalls (It is quite deep), wave machines, outdoor pool, Scary things, whirlpools, and bubble beds. In the Shopping Centre there's 3 stone town halls with a pool and stepping stones and a bridge. Today we got lost!
Day 3 - Sunday (Zondag) 11 August
Today we played all 18 obstical's of the mini golf (I won). Then we had a look round the village's. We saw another windmill (We bought the postcards this morning) and posted them. Then we went to McDonalds then swimming. On our outing we saw how wooden clogs were made it took a very long time. Then in the clogs they made patterns. First we watched a video of how you make clogs with tools and things. Then the ladie's expland how they work and showed us things in real life at the musem. (First the clogs are made from trees). But there's a shop but only sell clogs. The golf club's and balls were hierd from a yellow hut (Also for water sports). The golf obstical's were 1 a straight corse for a taste of it 2 was 2 bumps 3 was a ramp -----/ 4 was a mound 5 was a thin + thick thing And all the rest were simmerler. I'm nearly better! Now I have finished. Goodbye.
Day 4 - Monday (Modag) 12 August
Today, we sit on the patio, in the dark. This morning we went on a lake on number 2 peddleo boats it was a very big lake. Now we have found zone 4. Its better. Tomorrow we are biking all around Center Parcs. I've wrote a letter for all maps of Center Parcs In Europe. And this Afternoon we saw an Island and train's and a station in Enidhoven. See you towarrow.
Day 5 - Tuesday (Dinsdag) 13 August
Today we went biking round zones 0 to 9 Seeing Dog's Toilet's Bushalte's and Telefoons. We went quite fast but still had to go on the right car side of the road. Zone 7 is quite lonley. Zone 1 is hanging off the end. The speed limit was 15 kilimeters per hour. We also crossed bridges. We saw Everything, We saw lights leasure things we went 2 miles. Then we went down paths then swimming.
This is the map of Center Parks (these two pages are blank)
Day 6 - Wednesday (Woensdag) 14 August
Today we went to a 2nd World War musem then we saw lights in the dark. We also went on the bus round 2 times stopping at bushalte's. The 3rd carrage was in repair the rest were clean.
Day 7 - Thursday (Donderdag) 15 August
Today we did things that we enjoyed again aswell as traveling on the bus called the Center Parcs Express.
At the end of the book
It look like I got 116 in the aforementioned minigolf match but I won't relay the hole-by-hole scores of a golf match which took place over twenty years ago.
P.S.
Sorry Not Neat!
Friday Our cokker had no maches and A light Explodid.
Zaterdag Sarah broke a picture.
Our telephone's glass is broken.
There's a Center Parks bus.
The toilet wouldn't flush.
So there you go, an account of my trip to Center Parcs as an eight-year-old, unedited. Perhaps a little indulgent but I want to keep an account of it so transcribing it online is probably for the best. Strangely, me nearly drowning in the wave machine and having to be rescued by a burly moustacheod Dutchman wasn't mentioned.
