Our European Road Trip Is Over

Hello folks and welcome to the final part of our European road trip. You find me at the start of this video in Bremen in Germany and I know what you're thinking, we didn't end the last video in Bremen, we were still in Denmark. That's because we filmed the whole of today, realized the video wasn't very long and have decided to condense the journey home into one big traveling home video. I'm going to pass back to Past Kev from this morning in Billund, Denmark who's going to think he's starting the video, he doesn't know that I've taken control and I've actually started the video. Then once he's done, we'll be back here in Bremen again and that will be the official halfway point and then we're going to continue on tomorrow morning to the Hook of Holland where we're going to be jumping back on the ferry courtesy of our friends at Stenaline who once again have provided us with the free ferry crossing like they did on the way here. We'll take you through all of that process in reverse as well later on in this video but first let's jump back to like 12 hours ago when we were still in Denmark and I'm very excited because I'm about to go and do some LEGO shopping so have fun Past Kev, don't buy a Duplo set, whatever you do you silly goose. Welcome back to the European road trip, as you can see this morning we are waking up still at Lulandia but this is our last day here today. We're already midway through loading up the car, we're all packed, we've had a bit of a clean and a tidy up, Anna's just stripping the beds and we're going to be heading out of here. It's 9 30 in the morning, we have to be gone by 10. We have to be at LEGO house by 10 as well so yeah, we're going to be out of here in the next 20 minutes or so. The actual activity at LEGO house, that'll be all over on Block Party so we'll be catching up with you for this video a little bit later on today when we're leaving Denmark and heading back to Germany. I just want to let you know we're all right, we're here, we're getting out on time and we'll probably see you from the car park at LEGO house when we're done there. Fingers crossed, traffic looks good, weather is going to be more of an issue than traffic. Traffic looks like it's going to be just a four-hour run through to Bremen from here which is weird because on the way here we drove past Bremen an hour before we got to Hamburg and the drive from Hamburg. Actually no, it's not weird, my maths was so confused. It was three hours to get here from Hamburg, it's four hours to get back to Bremen from here so that does make complete sense. I was thinking we did a six-hour drive but no, that was Efteling to Hamburg wasn't it? But I think Bremen is a better place to get back to where we're going. I'm getting myself confused, either way we've got a four-hour drive later today so we don't want to be leaving Denmark too late but yeah I need to get the car loaded up so we'll do that, go and have some LEGO fun, see you on the other side of it, bye bye. Well it's just after one, we've just finished in the LEGO house, perfectly timed for what is still showing on sat and have to be a four-hour drive to Bremen. Anna is making me stop at the LEGO offices on the way so I can have a picture taken in front of the big minifigure because I keep talking about it but I'm too afraid to do it and she's gonna escort me up there and make me do it I think which is probably for the best because I do want to take that photo. The space that we had at the start of the trip for putting LEGO in is now very full, my poor old Fuggler is a little bit pressed for space in there now but at least he gets to enjoy the view on the way back into Germany which is where we're heading now. So here you go, this is a bit of a pilgrimage moment, the LEGO office is very exciting and that's the minifigure I want to have my picture taken next to. We've abandoned the car outside someone's house back there, I hope it doesn't get clamped. What did you say? Glad I insisted. Photo complete, very happy, glad I insisted that we do that. I found what Anna's saying she's too far behind me for the microphone to pick her up but we've actually left Billund because when we came past there was a crowd of people out the front because they did one of the big inside tours yesterday at the LEGO house and I think they were here today and they were having a massive group photo so we drove past there was a crowd of people I was like oh no I'm not gonna go and get involved in that and just carried on driving. We left town and then turned around and came back so yeah I'm glad I insisted, good picture. Now we are driving to Germany, well we are back in Germany, goodness me I am aching. I think the driving days are starting to accumulate now and I know that this is going to be the first time we've got two big driving days back to back as well because we've got all crumbs, dropped my biscuits because obviously we're just literally stopping halfway when we get to Germany or when we get to Bremen we're just there for the night and then doing the same long stretch again tomorrow to get back to the Hook of Holland for the ferry. I'm looking for Anna's pillow and I don't know where she's put it. The car is quite full now, I'll find her pillow but yeah we're still like two and a half hours from Bremen that's why I say hello while I look for a pillow and my packet of digestive biscuits that I bought in Harwich. Have you ever had a pack of digestive biscuits where you've had at least one biscuit in four different countries and at sea in the space of a week? I have and they're in here somewhere still like half left. Found them, road biscuits. We've stopped at a McDonald's about an hour on this road trip. A couple of things you can get at German McDonald's that you can't get at home I don't think. This guy on a key ring, on an adult meal. They also have World Cup cups which there's six to collect. We're in Germany so is there any chance you can get Harry Kane maybe? It's La Mina Mal. There you go. I have my own La Mina Mal cup. I'm old enough to be his granddad and then this was described as a chicken and cheese box. So I have a chicken and cheese box, a variety of sauces. Big Mac sauce, golden sauce, curry sauce. Anna's just got a boring old Big Mac but yeah I mean to be fair mine's fairly boring as well but yeah that's fantastic. Yours is the yeah because I ordered a small one so I could have a coffee. I just needed something cold to have with it. Yeah my new cup and my new bag friend. Lovely stuff and curry flavour shaky fries which is what Anna's got over there. Well we have arrived in Bremen. We're staying at Amoxy again and if you've watched the whole series this room might look quite familiar because it's basically identical to the one we stayed in in Hamburg just a few days ago to the point where it still has the same tv, the same weird little chair situation. The only difference is it's the other way around so this time Anna gets the chair on her side of the bed and we've got a little bit more of a city centre view as you can see out of the window there over some more large buildings but it's already half past seven in the evening and we're not going anywhere. We had that McDonald's on the way and I think I'm just going to do a couple of hours of work and then watch the England match which is on at 10 o'clock local time England versus Ghana assuming the tv works because we got here and they said that the computer systems weren't working and if they come back online the tv will come on in the middle of the night to welcome us and check us in um but yeah it looks like we can watch the football so that's important we're going to be able to watch football let's turn that off again um I think at this point I'm about to record a new intro for this video where we talk about this being the entire journey home because I think we're only about five minutes in and this is it for the day I don't want to release a five minute video um so I guess we'll see you in the morning and this will take us all the way back to England now because tomorrow morning drive back over to the hook of Holland again the remaining four hours of the journey and jump back onto the ferry home courtesy of our friends at Stenaline so we will see you in order I think it means I think I will check the traffic which I think we can have a late-ish start tomorrow because if all goes to plan we've just got a four hour drive maybe five tops and we don't have to be there until like half five so we could probably leave after lunch tomorrow unless I find something really exciting to do here in Brevin but I think we're both pretty tired we've never done a road trip like this before we've never done this many hotel changes this quickly together and I think we're we're both pretty tired and are happy just to veg out in the room for the next 16 hours or so before we have to drive the car some more so I'll see you in the morning it is now the next morning as you can see we are just about fully packed I'm not sure how that's happened but sometimes that happens um but we're fully packed we've both set up see we're we've learned from the first I say we Anna has learned from the first journey over we both have an overnight bag packed just to take on the ship tonight so everything else can stay in the car we just need to go and load the car up according to google maps we've got like a four four and a half hour drive to get us back over to the hook of Holland it's just before 11 o'clock the ship sails at 10 o'clock tonight we need to be there about six so I think that allows for a fairly leisurely drive we've got to get some petrol while we're still in Germany because apparently German petrol is cheaper than both Danish and Dutch petrol so we'll get some more petrol while we're still here in Germany so we'll hopefully get back over there about five o'clock so we can have a nice leisurely check-in onto the ship and it's an earlier sailing we sail at 10 tonight we get off at the other side at 6 30 tomorrow morning which means we might actually be home by like early morning 10 o'clock ish before it gets super duper hot because apparently is it 38 in England tomorrow tomorrow where we live 35 degrees we'd like to be home and not traveling before then so we can get locked in our air-conditioned rooms at home but I'm gonna load up the car and then we are gonna go and hit the road he's so happy about it he loves road trips this guy he's had a whale of a time well I think that was the single longest stretch of driving that I've done on the entire trip nearly three hours in one stretch not deliberately there was an accident just after we got back into the Netherlands and we must have sat in traffic for over an hour so yeah we've got to the other side of that we're still probably about two hours from where we're heading it's half past two so we're making we are making good time we left in plenty of time but we just pulled over to grab something to eat at whatever we can find at the services because we're pretty we're pretty snackish it's also 35 degrees when we opened the door from the lovely air-conditioned car the heat just smacks you in the face it is hot and apparently it's even hotter at home which is absolutely bananas I think we need to head back to Denmark where we were walking around Denmark yesterday it was like 22 degrees I've missed Denmark already we might have to move to Billund we've come over to McDonald's but most importantly they do fritz sauce here which they didn't do in Germany and but we love this when we have it in France and also on the machine there was the option to buy a bottle of it so we have a bottle to take home with us which is possibly the best thing we've bought in the entire trip well it's just before 5 p.m we're about 45 minutes away we just stopped to see if we could find some of my delicious Dutch peppermints that I like they did not have any at this petrol station um it is 37 degrees now it's quite warm and it's so bright that I can't even see that I'm filming myself the camera could be pointing the other way the screen is just it's complete reflection it's bonkers it's this is way hotter than any day we experienced in Florida this is one of possibly the hottest I've ever felt just walking around anywhere ever it's insane we're jumping back in the car because it's air-conditioned in there well we've made it we've time to spare it's 10 to 6 the sign up there is telling us that check-in opens at half past six the ship is over there so it's already here it's very very hot it is um it's not quite as hot as it was at service station but rather than sitting in the bakingly hot car over there we've decided to come and sit on this bench in the shade and wait for the uh for the check-in to because otherwise I think we might just melt but yeah we made it it took much longer than anticipated in my head when I was planning the trip I had visions of us on the way back stopping at the Hague and going to the um the Lego Discovery Center that's over there maybe checking out the new Rotterdam Lego store did not anticipate all of the traffic I think I don't think the heat has helped there have been a couple of accidents on the way as well but yeah we left we left Bremen at 11 o'clock this morning and Anna's saying we actually left at half ten so we left at half ten we stopped for some petrol and but effectively yeah we were driving away from the car park in Bremen at half past ten for what was supposed to be no more than like a four hour drive and it's nearly six o'clock that we've actually pulled in here yeah we stopped for lunch but that was for 20 minutes maybe and we've had a couple of like five or ten minute toilet stops but there's no way we should have been arriving this late there should have been opportunity for us to do some other stuff along the way but um very much glad we didn't because then we would have missed the ship and I would have been very sad or I'd have been just as sad if we'd have got here at like nine o'clock which I think you can still do I think boarding ends an hour before I think oh I haven't read the email properly um but yeah you know me boys and girls if if something happens at half past six I want to be here at four o'clock to make sure I don't miss it so I'm very happy that my car's at the front of the queue I just hope it is the queue I don't want to put it in the wrong place which of course is what I'm currently stressing about well despite being at the front of the queue unfortunately I'm not going to be driving the ship because two people got through check-in and passport control ahead of me which I'm very upset about but I think boarding starts at eight and it's about quarter to seven so we're going to be uh probably looking around for some shade for a little while um or just sitting in the car with the air conditioning on but we are uh we are through all of the uh all of the official stuff we had to do the fingerprint check thing at passport control um which I don't think I've ever had to do leaving a country before but I guess that's part of the new rules um and yeah now we're just waiting to get on the ship they did confirm that the um all the minibar stuff that we weren't sure was ours the first time is all ours so um we'll be filling our bag with minibar remnants bringing bringing the kids back half bottles of wine with us that we're not going to drink and cans of Heineken and we are on it is just before eight o'clock uh five two to be specific we now know that all this stuff is ours so we are going to be filling up a bag in the morning to take stuff like this back for the kids because neither of us drink but you know it's all included we may as well bring it but yeah we are uh I think it's basically the exact same setup as it was on the way out I think this is the other ship because it feels slightly different the boarding procedure is slightly different the lifts are slightly different so I think they've got the Holandica and the Britannica or something like that I think we're on the other one I will double check once I can dig all the documents and stuff out um but yeah we're on with two hours or a little over two hours to spare before we sail once again we do have a view out of the window thankfully despite it being a gazillion degrees outside it's actually not too bad in here I'm just trying to work out how the quick call works I assume it's already on because the lights on there are flashing I can feel cool air coming out of somewhere probably out of here yeah there's definitely cool air coming out of there so getting cooler in here as well yeah we're just gonna get ourselves settled in and then probably go and grab some dinner because we've left all of our snack items in the car although we have got a few here but I need something a little more substantial I mean I'm a hungry boy well we are on and I can confirm this is a different ship to the one we got on the way here it was the Holandica we got on the way out this is the Britannica however that's not stopping Anna from going to guest services and asking if they've got the 90 that she left on the ship on the way out it's the Minions 90 that she bought at Universal America she realized almost immediately when we got to Efteling that she'd left it on the ship she's emailed Stenaline she's emailed the Stenaline cleaning company we're trying to track down this 90 it is gone and she's now in what has to be a very very long shot asking if 10 days ago on a different ship someone left a Minions 90 that they happened to have brought on this one for her if she comes away with this 90 it's sensational it's nearly half past eight we're settled in we've unpacked to the point that we're going to unpack as in I've hung up tomorrow's t-shirt I've put my toothbrush on the sink and I've plugged in my CPAP machine and I think we are going to go and grab some dinner because all we've had today is a little bit of hotel breakfast there wasn't much left when we got down there I had a couple of pancakes with honey when the 17th they're actually looking into it which is bizarre yeah all we've had is a couple of pancakes and then that McDonald's halfway here I love the fact they're actually looking it up though imagine if they've got it that would be amazing no joy they did look though to be fair perhaps to give them credit for looking I don't think I would have bothered if I'd have been sat there and guess I've been like different ship a week ago no I know I know even though it is a different ship it does look like it's exactly the same layout as the one that we were on before to the point where I think it's even the same chairs is there a tv showing the world cup I mean there won't be because there's no world cup match on but in half an hour that'll be showing the world cup and they do have the they do have the food here so this is what we've got on the menu so the food is not too shabby that's a portion of fish and chips with peas tartar sauce nice big portion and it's got a cheeseburger and it is a double cheeseburger that is a that is a lot of food considering we had a mcdonald's on the way here and this is just you had a happy meal it's all right let's get stuck in that was a very pleasant meal can confirm it was massive portions neither of us managed to finish it maybe we were a little too close to that mcdonald's after all and but we are now heading back to the room and we from what we've seen of the ship it is exactly the same layout as the other one um so we're not going to tour it again if you want to see a tour of the um you can go and watch the video at the start of the playlist i'll link to it down below um so you can go and uh see a full tour of the ship on there but i think we're just gonna head back to the room it's not even nine o'clock we don't sail for an hour but i think we have an early night we've done a lot of travel over the last couple of days and we are pooped so i'm gonna lie there with timmy and read my book for a bit and then when we do sail away i'll sit there with my fuggler and we'll have a look at what's going on out there and we might even if we're still awake at midnight which is very unlikely we can watch scotland versus brazil on this but i think we'll just see you in the morning unless anything really exciting happens well not even 10 seconds after i put the camera down um anna looked out the window and noticed there was a fire on the other side of the water i don't know if it's supposed to be there or if it's a disaster happening yeah but that was unexpected when we looked out of the window it seems very controlled yeah nobody seems to be panicking so i think it's probably supposed to be happening and as if by magic it's now just after 6 00 a.m the next day and as you can see we are back in the uk in fact there is the uk border we'll be getting off the ship in about 20 minutes i think um bit of about half an hour not going for breakfast this time because i figured don't necessarily need breakfast before 6 30 a.m i certainly wouldn't normally eat this early so i think probably a mcdonald's on the way home is in in order but i'll check in with you once we've got to the other side of the border because when we were on the other end going into the netherlands it was like an hour's wait before we were actually through that and in the country so i'll let you know what time we get off and what time we're actually free to go and do our business and we are back in the same morrison's car park we started the series what nine ten days ago that is so much smoother on this side than it is on the dutch side um it took us well over an hour to get through passport control getting into the netherlands this one i think we actually started the engine to get off the ship at like 6 55 and by 701 here we are in the morrisons car park there's a mcdonald's just the other side of this bush as well so i think i've got a mcmuffin in my future but that is the end of our european road trip series we're actually looking at our watches thinking is the dog kennel is even going to be open by the time we get there if we got to get home first before picking up dave and but yeah it is pretty civilized being being back in the uk that early in the morning i do really enjoy the whole just being able to sleep and cutting off all that driving we were looking last night because you know me i panic so i'm the last services when we were stuck in traffic i was like okay if we miss the ferry what is the option we have to drive down to calais get a euro tunnel and then drive up from there and that would have added like eight to ten hours of driving to the trip to get us home and yeah i don't want any part of that so i think from now on when certainly when we're heading into northern europe if we're heading up into germany denmark anywhere in that kind of area the ferry seems like the most civilized way to do it so thank you again to staneline for sponsoring the uh the couple of ferry crossings providing us with the ferries for free um it is very much appreciated um and even though it was free it was still good so that's uh that's a big positive there but yeah we are gonna jump back in the car grab a mcdonald's and head home because apparently it's going to be mega mega hot here today and we think we've experienced some heat over the last week or so driving around europe it's 7 a.m and it's already 25 degrees where i'm standing right now apparently it's going to get as high as 38 at home for us today so we want to get home and get the air conditioning on before it gets too hot so if you have enjoyed this european road trip it's like no series we've ever done before we've never done a road trip before it's been fun so if you've enjoyed it please leave a thumbs up on there for us if it does well we might do another one who knows i'm already planning one going into south germany for next year so we can check out another lego land and a few other few other theme parks europa park people have mentioned and i think there's another one that we could probably squeeze into that result park asterix would be an obvious one to do so there's a potential next year's road trip already being planned and that if you have enjoyed the series please leave a thumbs up on there for subscribe to the channel for loads more travel content we've still got two decent trips set up for the rest of the summer so there's plenty more travel content to come and thank you very much for watching