Still in Holland 14 July

Amazing. After so many days it comes down to some risk averse plonker behind a desk in Luxembourge that decides on who get a Green card. Green cards are compulsory. Whenever I was here last I walked into the office of ADAC (the German AA) and they just wrote it out. It took 30 minutes at most, now it takes 3 days. The world has become far more dangerous so the system gets tighter to prevent freedom of activity. I have the same view of screening at airports. It is hard to believe those incompetents ever stopped anything, and they can not produce any evidence to support that their intrusion actually achieves anything at all. No matter who I ask it all comes back to the same desk it seems. I hope I am wrong. The ADAC, the biking tour companies, the internet, everyone I can find... all roads lead to Luxembourg. What a pathetic system. I cannot insure the bike in NZ (it is not in NZ), I cannot insure it up here ( I do not live here), I need 3rd party cover and they ask for my insurance in NZ ! Why, well it clearly makes the bastards more money. I hate feeling like this but insurance is a legal obligation and a rort, but not an excuse to persecute people surely ? Mind you I am a menace. I could be carrying 300 immigrants on a sinking motorbike and need the Navy to save me, yeah right. Like the queue of people at the Calais Tunnel, they no doubt are all carrying insurance at 10 Euro a day. Oh well I will prevail I am sure. But it is driving me nuts. As pleasant as it is to sit in a small Hotel in Veghel in Holland it is not why I am here. Not a lot more to say really.