Kindness Of Strangers, Again

It is one of the cliches of travel, I know, and we have been the beneficiaries so many times.... En route to Schokland, crossing the former Zuider Zee, one of those red warning lights came on on our Fiat's instrument panel. Slow down, stop when you can, look at the owner's manual. Wait a second, the owner's manual is in German!

We camped at the de Voorst Recreatiepark, near Schokland, and the hostess and host there were kind enough to translate the relevant owner's manual pages--we have yet to meet a Nederlander who wasn't fluent in at least three languages--and then to refer us to a nearby independent garage. The mechanic there dropped everything, Saturday morning, came out and hand-drained the water out of the Fiat's diesel fuel filter, smiled and said "No charge...have a nice day!" Kindness of strangers! Thanks!

In the De Voorst Recreatiepark