Get revved up for a brilliant family motorhome trip amid windmills, tulips and elephants in the Netherlands

YOU know that feeling after a long drive when all you need is a beer?

Well, add that to being soaked in toilet water and you can multiply it by ten.

And, boy, did it taste good. The pint, that is.

We had not long arrived in Wassenaar, near the Dutch city of Den Haag, when I had the unenviable task of emptying the chemical loo and it going horribly wrong.

Yet that was the only bit of our trip that went down the pan.

And it certainly didn’t put the kids off a return to Duinrell, a campsite boasting its own theme park and the “biggest indoor water park in the Benelux”.

My nine-year-old son, Leif, has inherited my love of flumes and we got stuck in straight away with a seven-metre vertical drop akin to cliff jumping.

We then whizzed through tunnels at up to 40mph, although I did need to pluck up some, er, Dutch courage for the quickest of them.

Even Freya, six, joined us when she could (of the 11 flumes, just two were deemed suitable for those under 1m 20cm). And I perhaps wished 42-year-olds were banned from a couple, too!

All that after we had already ridden a rollercoaster and other rides without leaving the campsite.