20.08.2007

Bye bye Berlin. Even when we were about 10 km out of the city we still caught a glimpse of the TV Tower. We rode the Autobahn for most of the way to the Border with Nederlands. Once into Holland, we found the terrain very flat and very green. Once we made it to the city of Zwolle, we parked and called our friend Eveline for directions to her apartment. Driving in Zwolle was a bit scary because there are more bicycles on the road than cars and I didn’t want to hit one.

We got to Eveline’s new apartment just a short walk from the town centre. It is very nice and Eveline was kind enough to sleep on her guest bed so we could have her double. We met Eveline when she stayed at our friend Eddie’s house in Adelaide as she was traveling around Australia with Eddie’s Cousin B (Bertha). We chatted for a while to catch up, before freshening up for dinner. Eveline,s parents own and run 3 restaurants in Zwolle, and tonight Eveline treated us to a magnificent dinner at ‘The White Goose’. If you want to enjoy a nice night at a restaurant, try dining with the restaurant manager . The setting is a small village just out of town, surrounded by fields, and trees. The atmosphere is great. Eveline talked me in to trying a ‘surprise’ menu, where you choose between 3, 4 or 5 courses (we chose 4) and you simply tell the waiter of any foods you don’t like. They then bring out 4 courses that are a total surprise (sometimes even for the manager). Each course was superb with the highlight for me being the meat course of Ostrich Meat. I have never tried that before but I like it. There really should have been the demand for it that they were expecting in the Ostrich Farm phase. The meat is like really nice beef, very red. Neda’s meal was nice too, she ordered beef steak from the menu.

Eveline did not put us up to this review, it was honestly the best meal we had on the trip.