Ottensoos - Frankfurt, Germany - Helsinki, Finland

It's funny every single time - ask my kids

Ausfahrt is German for 'exit'.  

The sign is everywhere from highways to toilet doors to supermarkets and everywhere in between.  

And how much do you think the kids are loving that everytime we drive past one?  They get to say 'arse' and 'fart' in the same sentence and not get into trouble.  

Could life get any better for our scatological boys?

Even funnier

Anyway it's our last day in Germany and in fact Europe so we packed the Grand Kangoo for the very last time and drove to Frankfurt about 2 and a half hours away.  

The car trip was uneventful and the kids were well behaved.  

In fact they have been terrific in the car since about the 10 week mark which was a tad longer than we'd hoped for.  

Anyone who is thinking of travelling with 3 monkeys in a cage should bank on roughly 70 days of the following before relative calm descends on your travels: 

'My dear children, won't you please be
quiet in the back?'

I'm bored, are we there yet?, stop touching me, can I play the DS?, it's not fair, I'm sick, I'm tired, I'm wide awake, I'm bored, is it far?, why do we have to drive so far?, I don't like you, I hate him, I'm bored, why do we have to see another castle?, you're mean, I'm hungry, is there anything to eat?, I'm bored, he hit me first, do we have to go out every day?, I need to go to the toilet, stop it, he hit me first, I'm bored.

Provided you can cope with that like I did you'll be fine.

Ciao Grand Kangoo

We arrived at our drop off point with about 3 hours to spare so we decided to head to a huge shopping centre to spend our last Euros and try and get some roller blades for 2 of the lads.  

The shopping centre was huge featured those dreaded words plastered across the front that every husband is afraid of 'OUTLET SHOPPING'.

Fortunately for us the bags were chock-a-block so we escaped with only a minor hit to the credit cards.

Frankfurt airport

Arrived back at the hotel drop off and said goodbye to our Grand Kangoo who over the past 3 months we'd grown to love and who had served us well without nary a drama to speak of.


So after 10 countries and 11 600 kms in the mighty Grand Kangoo our adventure in Europe is over.  

Next stop Helsinki for a 50 minute layover and then to Singapore.

Chooooooooos Europe!!! 

Frankfurt - Helsinki leg